The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-12-22 00:00:00

Corrumonbtnct

KR. PIKE TALKS TO HE TORIES

To the Ida.,

Knowing the crowded state your excellent parr
awl the want .4 ton.., prevented no from writing
much while the political contest was going on, and
evon now I have no wish to rake up any personal
matters. What I may say I wish it to lin taken in
A strictly politic...al 1.4105, As I bar, no personal feel.
in against any fair politiral opponent ; in fact. I
ran honestly say I felt thonsighlysorry forth.. defeated
candidates in Dorset, As I can well understand their
feelings .4 disappointment after Po di hani work,
and f course a btromr hope of winning Nut I cin•
not forget, and I don't want the men to forget, the
low, dirty ineana resorted to 1.7 tho Tory agents, and
especially many of the general workers. Think of
the loads ,4 iniwepresentationa a. to a hat wu, dwarf.
liii liamlieals woro going fo ifo if tour candidates irot
into Parliament. Now, I will put it to the general
What faith can you put in the Tory ;arty
after such tuistepresentation, which time will prise
to hir ?
hoc iii. montion a few of them:
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Itadivois have lieeti all diddled as Atheists by
the po-called religions Tories. Nothing ran be 'W.F.
tinting.. PIPE of course, unfair. I ask— wheredisa the
vast hotly i 4 Ihs•entens come fr.'s]) from
the I.ihersil ranks. hesides a lot of ..ther good folks
who can h n. mean. be truthfully exiles! .%theiste,
and what would have been the ptpte 4 the Ciiiireh
toslay but CC the Wh.ole.lllle 001111.etili4.11 lof I/h6Aellk
As a Ilissentrr iif year. standing, I protest most
strongly against the alsive Tory atatement.
12.) W.- an al.. imt loan by the Toriea
ing to rot. gentlemen of their land ; having rohlwd
thein, we are going to give the lalimireni three acre.,
and a row int., the hargain.
"Thee.' acres and a cow, my boys,
Thne acres alai a cow.
' What'a this.' mays John, 'I hear about
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What the Liberal^ have maid in that they would
like to ere a greater her of landowner. at fair
rents, and, if poweible, °WIWI., after paying • lair
rent of cornrow ; and I WI, no harm .n the Government
lending money to thrifty labourer, on proper
(3.) II Liberaln came into power we WI'M going
to " mill clown the :itat. • Chords awl eiwt away the
stone.; or turn the ehtirehen into theatre., ke.
Nothing can be further from the truth. The newt
extreme on thin pint have only
;welt reel ilinendownient, or non% religioun equality.
That ineasin nothing more nor les. than that tlione
who believe in the Church and weds to attend her
services nhoislill support her ; mei as no many rich
attend ti,. letrell, Shame on thins if they woold not
support her an we fig, 011111. some of the (armies
have gone out id their way blank tls.• poor people who
wan geing to chrinten, marry, awl homy the people
when the potion wax gone away. and who witn g' lug
to attend their mirk and In'* kiwli.f.l.wtor awl lawyer,
kc., for them. My reply is that many of th. parirann
do but little to it now. Diseentern do a g.nni part of
what in done, and would, of course, do more if the
necessity nhould arise, or if the pareds WAN lug enough
coward to run away. I Jerald be ashrams it.. In. a
party guilty of putting about inch unbranded take if
I were the clergy. Away with each rot—go and
preach the unadulterated gimpel to the pe r
he. promined to take great can. of his tnie Church,
3.1111 Wg• t h. helieve it with all our hearts
(4.) " If the 1.11..ra1m got in, WI. SllOlllll Int at war
at once, and 'Jerald bring about ruin and desolation."
Many of the warn and their eon...punt ruin which the
Liberals have had to deal with when in I.llke
Wan 1.11 liy the Tories or begun by them, when
they lidd he in the case. of the Afghan and
Zulu warn. The truth is, the Liberal. have been
great pracednaker. on tleVerAl WI i,, the late
CIVIC with Riowia. Then WI ti the great expenditure
of the Liberals, they have honently lola their way,
they ha % e Mae paid .4 Tory II.•Irt.11 and leech of
the national debt ; they have had extra, inlmary
este-mew to meet in Ireland, also in the Naval
Department. Of cowrie, it clue. not nerve the low
wirposen .4 the Tory to take all thin honestly Mto
account. _

.....
Is.) Smile id the Tonic., have gone aim far from the
truth tle to tell Ole low into that they could find out
how they had voted by wading a 'Milling to London.
Thin w. done in dm dark went. Bad aa
thin in, it in quite in keeping with the political
morality iif the thinville ;clay. Th.. &NI., are only
some of the faloehoodo oet oitt foot by the Torieo, lout
g ..... irally they hare mioerably laud, ao they ileoerved
to do, eat.dit in the wind, and ;hat will I. only for a
'Mort time. I will venture thou early to give the
Tory member for Weed Dorwit notice to quit.
Now thereareTi wy prom ion., Anil I venture Lonny th,.y
will I OOP* quite 11. 11116 • ..... led an their other atate.
merits. .le...riling to their aeemint, the poor are too
hate Harold., urea.!, ltiull.e WWI ell ,14110 id Mork
hem, it,ww rr, 'ore.% prwrprrity, tirneer. Now work-
ing lint,,
where you have ridii ..... I ore. ii .k ..it for
all id froml tl.inhuu they 114...* 14,110.60 you. I
W odd, howe‘er, edema younot to'• li in; ij•etited droll
.1.41'1 get them, for I Call eloalite poll Tone. R. 11 rid. IWO
the hint to try and Iwing the. thitign about. flow
ran you tried them ? Frnt they we. lto 04114 to Ito the
far:perm' friend., and rot A tat ell eon' for him e.lieeial
benefit, then when the Inhomer had the tote, tho•y
thrww him (the limner) over and turned lc. the Ilin•r,
/111.1 said "We want to ami you with better wagell,
elleaner bread, kr.," as promised shove, and why ?
Wean. the lalninnini hail heir to Ilea to thy farmer's
mei, and no they tasked :shook till between the two
°WV hate trail, too keg I in many lilac., flow tyll
they be triode,' Imi , in., bow they
down to %I r. Parnell and Id• idtor .'ailing them
everything led gentlemen ;1.. fact, We haat. Mee
eeo 0101 to Vollt no that they would ml,, almoot
*lathing to gain iilaeu and 'lower. We have loam
nailer T..ry nile in the somata. long Hemet ; we hate
rebelled againnt I hat ride, and are determined to sant
iitf tor e.iir the Tory yoke. I would say --
"Cheer hop, cheer.
nere in a better time rig ... i.. g "
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I arik now tire Torii" lia;rB raked this whole country,
.t 001.44 to rvrry eonceicaliku dodge, miareprearinted
flew "pia 0114.111 a ill every powible 101111, tried Icy
threats and intimidation to frighten the laws. men
into vi wing Try, where sire alai lel airy. Churchill, itc.
•in a kora:law minority without the l'arnellitea' acid
at a deadlock with them, the laugliiinmatock ..If
country, if not of am whole world —political u.,1 iii,,'
10.1. 111 e. larlp. all the lalrerala to squire 8" vain.. iii
kceping their oniairiaationa tisether, aterngthan
their weak 'manta, and at hotd their vantage gnarrel,
remembering the enemy will 111.111 r mat, lout will li.'
carrying .41 the old art of trying to ileceku this people
• lirretofore.—l am, air, your.. truly,
H. PIRIC.

Whoborne, !fro. If4h, 1141.1.
Kindly allow Inc to add the following'
notice :—That in the three of the I liviniona of I tonal
and other places the Tories are linking very sad. end
it is sea.' are about I sell off their election wares at
abwalutely mamma 'arias; On-at batwing must lie
sold to hill. defray heavy election expenses. First
It —.lny amount of failed 'Brunner.; a few stale
bloaters, broken promises, bast.. .red hats, muddy coats,
broken carriages, hOrnell over driven, broken walking.
sticks, false fares ...lightly damaged; eye-glasses (a
little dim); a few lots id 'viatica' pills, such as the
people w,,uld not swallow ; • huge brindle id Fair
Trade and Protection papers: a few job lots of Try
leaflets, containing any amount of untruths, only lit
for tlw fire. Special to printers.—Several set* of type
will be offered without neerve, having no further use
for them at present ; also several shareholders in Tory
local newspapers would In. glad to sell out if buyers
can only be found, an the game is now played out.
Sale to commence at an early date. }or further
particulars apply at once to the agents of defeated
Tory candidates.
H.P.