The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-12-08 00:00:00

East Dorset Election.

The polling for this division took place on Friday.
The poll opened at eight o'clock, and shortly after-
wards large numbers of voters were brought up in
conveyances, many of them to record their vote for
the first time. There were three polling stations for
Wimborne —one at the boys', another at the girls',
awl the third at the infants' echoolmo.n. The pre-
siding officers here were Mr. J. S. Traill, of Bland-
ford • Mr. F. Harvey, of Wimborne ; and Mr. A.
H. Cock, of Dorchester. The total number of voter.
on the register is 9,75 e, and of these 1,323 are in the
Wimborne polling district. The polling proceleliel
very briskly during the day, and at half-past twelve
over 700 electors had recorded their rotes at Vin,.
borne. There was a plentiful display of party
colours, and dark bloc and primes° awl red row•ttse
were tO le sell on voters and iin tko trappings of
konew in all parts of the town. The chief committee
rooms id the two caniliilatse were within a few yards
id each other. awl were both near the poling station.
A large crowd assembled in front of the
Ginsereative c tttttt nittee room, and chiiered and
groaned in tarns as carriage after carriage
heel of voters drove by. Up to about two o'clock
the crow-1 wwiniel to be fairly good humoured, but it
was evident that some of them were the
%%wan for drink, and the longer they stayed
them the rougher they got. About two o'clock a
large b..ly of young men and boys wearing red
rosettes aol rilibous begaii crewiling across the road,
awl hustling eons,, of the leading mon of the Conser-
vative party who were standing quietly looking
One of them resented the hustling, and pushed the
red ribboned young man from him. This was the
signal for a rose. A man rushed ai Colonel Harris
awl dealt a swift blow at him, 1111 C the Colonel wanled
"if the lid with his stick. A general iul,e ensued,
and for &short time there was a kind of free fight, but
it was quii•kly quelled by tho interfenince if aim,.
half-down palm:nen, withoutanylealy being seriously
hurt. Colonel Harris and seine of his friends then
went to the square, being followed by a howling band
of young anil stii sl in front of Laitee* 'LAO,
when; they bore a gips' deal Of alniiiiVe language very
patiently. hater in the afternoon and during the
evening there was sewe free fighting in the streets,
and .ifle Wilel.eff wan bri,ken. Both eandidatsa drove
through Wintlewne ..nee or two,: dering the ilay, and
were well reeeivol. Alsint eight o'eliiek in the even-
ing a large numb,r if people assembled in front of
Laing's, Hotel, Anil tic,. rougher elenfent, mostly red,
made a great noise. 0-10 man in particular was very
noisy, and Pr. C. 11. W. Parkinson, on attempting ti
quiet and get him ti, i home, recio a sirens blew on
his eye. Ili* assailant wee taken into custedy. In
Poole the voting war carried on briskly, the greater
niiinber tie, 1,510 electors polling before two
n'clirdr. There wi., a stowl deal of excitement, and a
gnat display of party e,iloors,
eseasional fiteit ilr OW, the town was fairly quiet,
Wareham during the day was very lively, but then,
was te, disturbance iif a *whets character. There was
a remarkable ahem. of Liberal colours. There are
about 700 voter', in the Wareham district, suet con.
seleralily over ~um" half had virus' before midslay.
On the mr, lt,,n,pe return
1,, Wareham, he was met by an enthusiastic crowd
and e..e.,ried, aiu,iil heel clewing, to his residence,
Creech i ;range. At iilWatiage the greatest exulteittont
twevailisl, and there were a number of free fights.
The pilice were oliliatisl to interfere, and several of
thiim were rouslily handled. Mr. Bond was driven
through the town. and was loudly clieeniil and hissed,
' and on, ill.disp. MOll permit threw a missile which struck
his hat, but unfortunately did not inflict shy serious
injury. In Cranboriiii the liveliest interest was
manifested in the e iciest, end 'Firing tie, day there
was A goer' deal id disturbance. Mr. Bond and Mr.
Glyn Loth drove into the town during the day, and
were heartily cheered by their semesters. Nome
roughs behaved in a very threatening manner to Mr.
bind, and there is radii to believe that if Ile had
nit driven ~it of the town at a gond pace an attempt
woold tiara been made to carry out a threat tic iiperit
the carriage. Roth parties were very sanguine, and
Irvin the returns they got lion their agents employ.l
„mama this ',Aline stations to chock the names end
numbers of rotors, they appeared In ms more oonfi•
donee 114 the day wore on, each side issuing statement.
that thy had obtained a miderity, The votes were
counted on Raturlay morning, and the mull declared
I at Wimborne as follow* I
Hon. P. C. hhlyn Hs) 4,1143
O. H. Bond (0) „, 3,510
BRILLIANT LIIIRRAL VIO ronv.—RKTITIIN
OF TIIK 110 N. ULYN 11? OVER
14 I'BR (ANT.