r,
I meet him as an Englishman, then I, as an Afrikander, must
regard him as the enemy of my nation and my religion--as a wolf
that is endeavouring to creep into the fold. This is the chief
reason why we must regard them as our enemies; they are the
enemies of our religion."

At the beginning of September, when the bulk of the elections were
over, 40 Afrikander members and 36 Progressives had been returned.
Three seats remained to be filled. Mr. Rhodes, who had been returned
both for Barkly West and Namaqualand, decided to sit for the former
constituency, and the decision of the Bond to contest the seat thus
vacated caused a delay in the new election for Namaqualand. The return
of the two representatives of the Vryburg division was not to take
place until the 15th. As all three constituencies were expected to
elect Progressives--an expectation which was fulfilled--the result of
the general election was to give the Bond a bare majority of one, and
this in spite of the fact that a considerably larger total of votes
had been cast for the Progressive than for the Bond candidates.[43]

[Footnote 43: In a house of 79, 40 Afrikander and 39
Progressive members were returned. A very careful and
reliable calculation showed that, of an aggregate of 82,304
votes polled, 44,403 were cast for Progressive, and 37,901
for Afrikander candidates. More than this, while no
Progressive member was returned by a majority of less than
137, three Afrikanders won their seats by respective
majorities, of two, ten, and twenty. The Progressives,
therefore, were entitled, on their aggregate vote, to a
majority of six.]

[Sidenote: Milner's impartiality.]

These somewhat unusual circumstances gave rise to an incident which is
significant of the absolute impartiality with which Lord Milner
discharged the duties of his office as constitutional Governor of the
Cape Colony. In view of the circumstance that the Progressives had
polled a majority of the electorate, although they were actually in a
minority in the Assembly, Mr. Rhodes was of opinion that the Ministry
should remain in office, and postpone the meeting of Parliament until
the Namaqualand election had been held. He believed, further, that in
the period of grace thus obtained it would be found possible to induce
one or other of the Bond members to change sides, and thereby put