The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-29 00:00:00

THE RETIREMENT OF SIR WOE GUEST.
The Pools relegran says :

Although. perhaps, it may be the exoeption for •
day to pass by without some action or another cow
mated with Toryism cropping tip which, without
bang in the least " straitlaced," we could either
condemn or despise, still a few, aye and that a very
few, events do occasionally happen in the CJOSeelfle.
tin camp in rue cultist which we cannot but admire.
It le, comparatively speaking, but a few hours age
since • dire calamity betel the wpm Irons of polltidans
who were marching to "death or glory' under their
self-chosen leader; politically and figuratively speaking
be was mortally wounded and carried to the rear, and
for hours the gallant warriors were without a captain.
It II at this crisis that ow temporary admiration for
the acacia of our opponents comes upon the scene.
Had they been downcast over the matter, and turned
their backs upon their enemies, then we should have
despised them; on the contrary, the cry through•
out their ranks I.—" We have lost nothing ; we have
found a be ter man." May we not be excused if we
venture to admire ouch high-spited men as this, and
if we " rejoice with them who do rejoice" so far as
" the better man" is concerned, who Mall say nay?
But we must not disguise the fact that it is the wide-
spread idea of us in the I Aheral ranks that a great, deal
of that mystery for which the Tories of IM are so
proverbiel. both in and out of Weetininster, is con-
nected with this news, which, as it materially concerns
us, we are atfull liberty to &toms. The miaow for this
retirement, of which we write, taking pleas, are stated
by the Conservatives (who ought to know) to he many
and various, the real fact of the matter being that
Conservatives iwe left out in the dark to share the
mystery with Liberals. From one source we hear
that • third member is to be given to Bristol, and that
this member is to be Mr. Fry's late opponent. The
manifest unfairness of such • proceeding as this Is such
as to allow of us passing it by without further rewire.
Another report I. that Sir Ivor Guest is suffering from
a diseased liver and is solos abroad. Another report
Is that the noble baronet's heart is diseased from the
over excitement of his late unsucocesful manes (as
pasesni, we might say that the Liberia. of Poole have
a sad tale to be of a noble gentleman's heart which
became irrevocably diseased from the over-excitement
of a despotic petition, which disease ended in a sad
and sudden oteath), and that air William Gull has
ordered him to retire from political Life, and spend a
UM. of perfect retirement at Kimengen, where the
waters of the celebrated Regond spring are to restore
his health. The fact of Kiesengenbeing choose rather
points toe dimmed liver, but it is none the lam
6Ma that the heart is the mato( sickness, not, perhaps
from a medical, but from a psychological point of
view, as surely the political caner of Ear Ivor Guest
must have made him many times "sick at
heart," for it has been an unfortunate one
from the time when a stranger entered, as it
were the very threshold of his house, and bore away in
triumph what doubtless was owidered to be "a part of
the t, up to the time of the recent increased tax
on woos. Even Portarlington has been put out of his
reach by Home Raters, and Marlborough is at best
but an ascertain speculation, whilst Poole, to the Con-
servative burgesses of which he was politically
betrothed, within the last few days demonstrated by
Manmade assembled that she still remained, as she
" -ses was. a Liberal Borough. This last mutt
sus, • doubt, " the Last straw which broke the camel's
was, n, tbne we reocjecture the retirement came
back," an, sag sport this event from every point of
shout- "°°••• toth a mum for rejoicing and f
view, we find it Lama party Is concerned—cl
regret so far as - opponents have to "swop
reoMing, because when ,
we may be sure that
harms when fording the Mmes.-
" then I. something rotten
th• 41"„Cmf, oyDiamarkroroot
which undoubtedly there le It is • c
us because we had looked forward to Mang our
champion " measere swords" with the best croponent
the world could produce, int to prove Met the
popularity and litics of Mr. Charles Waring are
almost universaffpoy beamed Is in Poole, and eseeedly
to prove that filing what was termed by Mr.
Grove " • fishing petition" showed a dlepnss
adopt a system of pelftleal coercion widels eon.
&mood by all r*ht-mineled people. The
Dam trim, of to make the beet of this " hal
job," aad alludes to tact that Kr. fichrieber has a
masterly knowledge at politics. Admitting this to
be the cam, this knowledge will be of little met, him
In Poole, where his polities are not the politics of the
peopleand, even were they so, ther,is an old debt
other than political to settle at the seat *lactic/4 and
nine bandied nein have been waiting far six pears
for this time he mem Relative to the next sontest,
we have frequently beard It argued, and that, too,
with effect, that • complete stranger, pledged to fight
fair, and not "strike below the belt,' would more
more Conservative votes at • general election than
would any me in any wee connected with the present
lord of the manor.—The Tory paper la in error when it
tells us that "Mr. Waring's tribute to Ms prowess of
Sir Ivor Omit as the Ceassevative candidate for Poole
was Involuntary." What was meant was said, and
what was said was meant, for the Liberals of Poole
do not under-rate their enemies, and the better they
are the prouder they are to heat the.. That Mr.
Schrieber Is a better nadidate than the last one is
the addlepated ritodomontade of dim-sighted fanatics,
whom vessel Is wrecked, nay sinking, sad if the
drowning men who lona the crew catch at straws,
It is but a way peoulisr to drowsing men, and why
wonder at It?