The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-30 00:00:00

TORYISM IN POOLE.

Of course it was not to be supposed —that the Poole
Tories would silently meditate upon the reoentrunneeses
of their political opponenta, neither was it to be con-
jectured that they would let the recent meeting,,
presided over by the Liberals, produce nothing in the
form of reaction in their camp. The trampi d worm
turns am it breathes its last, and the Tories of Poole
give a few public expiring squeaks, to let those around
them know that they are 'suffering the pangs of •
mortally wounded party, squeaks, too, far too feeble
to be beard or 'appreciated beyond the nrecincta of the
Coneervative Hall. The firn feeble effort we noticed
which emanated from this crushed and almost obliter-
ated party was the issue of a blue bill, relative to
blue-books and foreign loan readings. Whet such
readings eould do towards blacin r the Danford
nominee more firmly in his political position, they who
wanted their precious time by going to hear such
balderdash can best tell; but we hear from all sides that
the scheme was a failure. What do Poole working men
know or care about foreign loans and in what way do
foreign loan, affect them? If the import of such read-
ings vras an attempt to cast a slur upon Mr. Waring,
It had an opposito effect, as it showed some of the
Tory party to what low depths Tories will sink to try
to gain themselves power, and to what pen nal contn-
Vain= the, will condescend. Is it a legitimate or
praiseworthy way of making one's cause good
to vilify those who are opposed to us? The
questions at issue do not turn upon the
private lives of political candidates, so far as Poole
Is concerned, happily for one Individual especially,
who once represented the borough. Did they do so,
the Liberals have • ready. made stock of mud in
hand, which has not improved by long keeping, ready
to return the fire of their adversaries with. The
questions rather hinge upon the opinions formed
by the burgesses upon the present state in which the
nation is found, the incapacity of its rulers, the
depression In trade, the ruinous wars, with their
attendant loss ef pre:ions lives, sad list, but by no
means least upon the despotic method resorted to to
coerce the borough into supporting • scion of • family
one member of which has misled them. The
most convincing proofs of the estimation they who
issued them blue bills were held in. even by their own
supporters, were to be found on all sides, and in all
quarters, and the mon civilised portion of the Tory
community was unanimous in expressing its divan at
such feeble spite. But the crowning piece of venom lain
the columns of " the Try organ" of last week, where a
leader ii devoted to the oonsideration of a placard or
handbill, the circulation of which was never authorised.
We would only bring this forward to show what surrep-
titious MUD, are used by our opponents to make their
own cause good, and their adverssries' cause bad, and
to what mean actions they will resort if commenting
upon • bill not intended to be made public can be
called by this name. But has this leerier done harm
to the few who have read it? Has it injured the
Liberal party? Has it advanced Conservatism? No,
it has merely shown the public that when the Liberals
cater for their enjoyment they provide for them
handsomely and well, they give them enough, and
mon than enough, and the zeal of those to whom the
task Is allotted to see their arrangements properly
carried out is not of a superficial nature. Att the
next general election we shall have • more solid reality
for them to deal with than the frivolities of tea and
foreign loans, and this will be in the shape of •
:aslant, of hundreds for the Liberal candidate, •
majority which will not easily be eradicated from the
minds of those political, personal, and abusive mud-
throwers, who will collapse simultaneously with the
arger self-inflated wind-begs, who act in our midst the
same blundering policy which has recently become so
inseparably connected with Tory mis-rule —Poole
Tecgraes.