The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-15 00:00:00

LIBERAL MEETING AT THE TEMPERANCE
HALL.

A public meeting was held at the Temperance Da. on
Prtd.r •vernas, etipport al the Liberal candldates for
the B wrd o 4 Guar. i ana, and t 'ler* ••• a I trio teudattee.
Cutincillqr E. Y. Philyete, MD, F.R.U.13 , was Tined le
the chair.

The Quietism said the object of the meeting tem to
divcuse too tortoconaing election of Guardithe. BM was
aware it had not bead LAO custom hitherto to salt public
met-tics. in retereuce to this onostion, bot he thoueht
wm adtimble they should do so ou that occmion, and,
consideriog the history of the last law months In Pool,
they should take time by Um forelock, and nut let their
adversaries get the upper hand of them, rm. in to small
a matter as the election of unardians therm ore, everyooe
should some forward, individualiy and collectively, to
further the came In hand They might think It emit not
importanat whether there was • Liberal or a Coney vo-
tive in ijority at the Board of Guardians, but he metered
them it made a great difference, sit they could s-e ibis
on whichever side the 'sodomy aim The 40 Se
question was, as be migt soy, sub Judie,. but trout a'.'
he had Istard he believed those •ho cAuweJ to be es-olkies
would no longer be glowed toga to the limrd of Go. %haus
and vote. It woe • very hard ram toat the detatoie of
the Conservelive Government, who were the majority of
the totrotes in this town, sboold be allowed to go up
to the Beard of Guardians ead rule Ober. just al they
111.4, when gentlemen whom the people hove elected
were in the minority. This might be very well to order
to further owlets political views of people who ruled in
London. but b. wind they would show them that in
Poole thy would fight the irlibiltinns to the bitter end and
eveutuay succeed. With regard to whether the magis-
trates had a right to act 1111 Cloardioas or not, It mattered
hide whether these was a Littoral molority, bvcatas the
Town Uouticil had a nest to appoint tn.iir Lusa Cisil•SLOf
of the Borough rate, and if to. sselkia swamped the
elected Guardians, as they bad hitherto dos, he hoped Lb.
Council would take wiles and appoint • person Woollen{
th. Borough rate es-pat-awl, ir ,tt p wx•r•ta. It would
1,. &great ad rob t tee to them, ft r toe, wont i ems collector
iiiinlduted by the Liberal mojority is Um lowa C Atom' to
cuilect the rotes at Parkstene. L ngc.i, and Hain worthy,
chola thereOr• at i moot Cows:satire c and
they Would also balite • Liberol oillautue IYV d Jodi. II
Tlioryitivs &A long as Ivry hiel the rule in tho
lows Gunned he did nut intuit tic- es-effaie qiieot on and
trouble them very much. Tar C man concluded I y
.1.111b.t 0 the Cons avatives got in the thin i•do, of Ut.
read,. the L bend. wool I tool it all round, and ,van it
dm, hod to piy an ague 11. each tor • coicct a of the
liormsok rue, it • could be better thou to let to. (louver..
tires "rule or ruin" them, as they would If they could.
(Minions,)
Mr. G. Wert said the qoasUon seemed to be one
between Toryieui and Liberaluirt, and they ought to poy
some little atteniieu to it. TIN origin ut the word toy
had WWI given a. "thief," sail by thought ibis would
apply to the es-4144, who tried lamina a march on them,
and appolut a oboe tor agalitat the vete of them reprmanta•
tires. Maui. hear.)

Councillor 11. T. Ismaili:iv thought it his duty to
attend that meeting. and he did so az ci litUe In:Lethal
inn nveni,ace, a• this was au important matter, and one
hicn &armed them as Liberals lie quite agreed with
Its. West that U.e terra Twy wait synouymous with the
word robber." Toryism was said to he 'the government
of the many for the burr,' of the few.' aim no dictionary
could contain • better definitioh of toe word. This hod
been will ..emplia.d is the present hyaena% He weal
not tan umiak& lenguege with rrgard to the ts
question, but would my that fr the past 10 years or na,ws
—long before he came to Poole—there 'weaned to hare ben.
• constaot eouflict between the erofiaio sad the elected
aterdtaos. For many years this woo . that point. The
tp.ogkir riaicord to to county magistrates, but this did not
make them such. No doubt in the reign of Elisabeth
Poole, which was this • very insigncant place,
only the size of Sr. James's parish, canoe Into
notoriety es • free port, and the people managed
to ixiractfrow the Queen • Royal charter incorporating
Poole as • free town and county. net meant that the
town wasto be g d by ite oen magistrates in the *ay
trate. of Port. were nut so elected they were no him.
twheerochtola*bor.owlechtoichl.eeeirerehetiforsthief tethreuestglise-
bewhtleetth tthtgey
Imßtttgesestrlienta thenee
ie
eu.i.iko sod
..tpeniw county
or"itshterp.t h"tsebSn—ttlioh...enwg'Lh to
iut Twb..de. a
the
chortee—
r the county. sod they had to be elected annuallr.
(Criters). He tailed to me that any of the magistrates id
Poole's.' been sleeted in that way. It not thy bad no
rlehn to be county misi-teet Wt.en the Monicip
Ckruorations Act was passed. Poole was the of these towns
scheduled Is that Act to hi • B wough, and to bath
Justiose of its own, and the 0 earniwiou of the Peacesimpty
mentioned the magistrates as Jusucee of the Pomo tor
the Borough of Poole. Arlen, it they were mushy
trot...they would he exempt from serving as Jr men at
the Anises Mr. PT. Bogen and others claimed exert*-
, tion at Wienhorne on the ground that they were county
oithistratre ; it cahoot great scuusemeut to the Wiroborue
' Bmch, and they had hardly got over it Muth The
Uhairman said. ' Show us your qualification r trot they
were unable to do so. To make Melo county mag skates
they must have the some qualification ea reg aded
land or money th was reword in the thee of reatutrathe
In the county of Dorset. The magistrstes had
never been able to show their right to exemption
from serving on juries, and it had been decidol that they
had DO wore right than ordinary retepayere to
go to the Board. Mr. W. C. Glen, who shout the
time he (Mr. Trevanion) was born was appointed advirer
to the Poor Low Board, and who had tad the greatest
experience In them matter., said he could not see how the
magistrates of Poole could be ea clisrie Guardians, and
advieed the Chairman of the Board to mk them t leans
the room, and if they did not go to uss gentle pressure to
elect them. (Leath ) Mr. Glen's opinion had been mat
to the Local Government Board, and they could hardly go
against their own adviser. There was now govertament
without consulting Perliament, and there might be
government St the Local Government Board without
comulUng their legal adviser, but be hardly thought so.
Even those who claimed to be es-ollthe Guardians dal not
believe themselves to be such, or why did Kr. Dugdele
put up for the tything of Lon/66mi! Hr. Dugdale was
wide-awake enough, and would be the last men to do
this if he felt his seat atoll secure at the Board. If he
was mired this be would say " I tun here by virtue of my
°Maw" but he comes down and says, " I am • ratepayer of
the Borough, and have the requisite qualification, and j
solicit your suffrages as being slots to represent you for
the tything of Loudest." Hr. Dsgdale, no doubt, bad •
perfect right to put up for L and Longa.% bad a
perfect right to elect him, but be thought the electors of
Lougibet would exercise their right and return their old
sad tried friend, Yr. 3 W. Buckley. The election of a
rate collector principally concerned the parish of St.
James. but It seemed they brought up the lame, the sick,
the halt, and he might almost say the blind, se two of
them had their aureate to lead them to vote on this
question. Such interference showed the rampant spirit ,
of Terybon in Poole—though so itched, it was not killed,
and it behoved them to &epoch it. In the parish of
at. James the electors were more out-epoken than those
of the other parishes, for there was not so winch applica-
tion of the "Cantor Screw." They had • right and they
exercised it, It • man was • Tory, let him sOje as such.
If there was • Comathatthe woekinat man—though be had
newer men rine—kt him vote as such. There was • large
display el blue ribbons at election Untie, as many working
men were obitged to practise this moss fraud in order to
rote as they thought fit. Lot year they had titres
L b xal Guardlesselectivd.end they knew May had • fourth,
hut they were ruheot he Toryism of him foe. limn Ets
could not blip telling Mr. Budge that if be did sot try to
sit In Moms • met chill events he tried hr sit in Elsner'.
mat. The lloaammt ege wanted to put Mr. Goff and Mr.
Baker out of the way, and it behoved there as Liberals to
are that they were remorse& At the lest *lconic, on
docile, • three homier of voting payer. were forged. and
"bother dii this ought to Wire had three months is
Dorchester goal, hut May bed Conservative magistrates,
who might not have thought there was, OM' to go b-fore
a Grand Joey. Kr. Tretranith thee spoke of the manifesto
leued by H. Batetoe, who bat doth ninth good than any
haliwyclosen Mayors before him, and the Cemserratiros
thought to, too, as he bad to kave his homes In u •
sour. of further remark.; Mr. Trevalahni referred to the
ease of Bath Roger., which •as tried in the L ird Moeor'e
Gout. A meant of the Craforti Lida, applOst to be
allowed to satedst • home. There were yleoty of
•onlicente, but the cooditiou wee that tile home
ninth be let to "a good C innervation." The Judge
Wird chill was the &Scream between • good
and • bad Clonserntith tkid the tenant: " A good
Cons-really* le one who always Welts bhe because he is
blue." The Judge slaked. 'Whole • bed Conservative?'
and was geld in reply, "That 040 who will vote blue to
keep lila boom over his head, and get • customer to please
his landlord." (Laughtre.) At this Mr. Uomiseither
Herr •nd the barristers at the table had therty laugh.
A person eas Introduced as one who would support his
landlord through thick and thin, but when illiquid.,
one made it was foetid that he was a member of a
Radical Club In JthrbethrelL (Laughter.) It was need.
lees to say he wee not acorpted, and the tenant had to
sah-let the boom to soother at • loss of .1.50. Weald this
make him • better Causer/riles I Ni I These revelaUoue
showed the 'screw' was put on far more In the tows
than they thou/lit; but if It was believed that by pressure
they were gang ta squeeze Liberals into Conservatives, it
was the worst thing thee ever did, and lite the Urn, M
the Reformation, when it was thought by horning Bibles
to get rid of the Bib.. As soon as • man became •
martyr to a oatim it prospered at mice, sad if Poole
Liberals were made marthrs mut) men would join them
from sheer sympathy. Hr. Itsiston's pamphlet showed
clearly how this was done—the moderate men on the Co..
setystive side would he so disgusted that the taborets
would have large aeceseions to their ranks, and the Cory
itervatmes would he " hoist with their own petard." Is
conelthioe. Mr. Trevanion said some one told him the
other day be was afraid Sr tree Guest would be returned
for PO.lO at the next election, and he answered, "Re
found Bristol too ellppery for him, and he will Sad Puede
the sanse." (Applause)
Mr. S. L. Bah= said he, • working taselsernah, was
turned matron' the Board of Guardians hy • lawyer, hacked
up by the whole strength of the Conservativea He
reviewed the eventful six month. denim which he had
sat st the Board, and op ha in high tense of the gentle.
maillY conduct of Mr. HATIOIIa in the char. He Mee
referred at BOOM length top the gram Inequality Is the
ratins of property in the borough, and the 1011/Aloe of
working men being higher rated than others, which wag
done by the Oenwervative members of the Assessment
Committee. The rating question was important, mid he
should not he satisfied until be was elected a member of
the Aseesement Committee. Referring to the rate
collectorship, Kr. Baker mid because Hr. Merriam was a
Liberal the Conservative magistrates went to the BOMA to
t him from being elected by the represeetthithe of
Baker
.d.ifif:re.:tettietest:teetee.r.ik.w.oisieneir :ustrott by so all
ere not sw"el. i.:2..L.llleteorietera7lieaetronikwirsiotnidr:Fildrees:4l.l3ll,l:ll;
advised them to follow the example of the Ibietobens Lad
Ramaa, Curtis, sad God istended to have been
bat the two former Wife Out of town 00 business. aid It
Gall wee unwell.
The CILUILOAN silted these promol to vote for the &dales who had the Interest, thapoor at wan. :Z.
did net go to the Besot fog party and awl laririllorrardalee of the peer. garrirtriame. el the lategept.