The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-10-30 00:00:00

NON-POLITICAL VOTES AT THE NEXT
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
2b ae &Nor.

Sir,—Judging from what a number of ratepayers
tail me, both Liberal and Couservative, titers will be
some curious cross-voting on November let next, on
the part of those who are determined to resist taxati .n
for cost of buying and laying out and maintaining
plosions ground*, whether at Parkstone or Heckfor4,
or eleewhere within the borough. On this subject
hardly-pressed ratepayers are more interested than on
the question of who shall be mayor, and who aldermen.
Howe ',taw will not fall LOOCh as heretofore) indicate
p ,litical bias. For instanoe, in the North-West
Ward, some Conservatives will, like myself, be ready
to vote for a Liberal candidate who will oppose this
groat outlay ; whilst • good many Liberals will gladly
vote for • Conservative candidate who I. ale' opposed
to such i.utlay. This course may p esibly have • me
trintoq .rt-et In dsci fling the map r and aldermen
pa, t tiie business (about wrlalols arork;sag moo 0400
very little, If at all), but is not likely, in the smallest
degree, to affect the Parliamentary issue at the next
general election ; bet:sues an appal to the c .untry,
made only, we may be Ewe, ofere a redistribution
of seat* in effected, wi'l have to be decided in and
around Poole by • very greatly enhrged c mstitnency.
Perhap. the Poole electoral district will have • popu-
iiit;„. of :jo.oi or more, with or without Cat 10.1,414
and wire-pollen., arc .rding as the people ju.lge for
themselves or ace simply led.—Your obedient servant,
J. liswiriss SIMPSON.

Another 1.-tter I think desrrves attention—and
many have been sent me. It in as follows :

A Hint to at Man About Town, by anaAcr Man

About Town.

Metre you u•st go to Kea., the struggle which is
ballatl. a the mind-, m,re or less, of all the burgess.
of this town will ht.. snl”id .d. One s-t of Men will
be Juba:ant, so anoth,r est of m-n will he cletpoodent,
whild "there will thoughtfullv m .urn over the waste
of tner.ry, time, care, lett., and M u 110),
which the struggle bas occasioned • mid will
k them-elves perhaps what good results

from this aonual struggle. Does the town derive
any benefit from it? Dole the country derive any
good' Do either of the greet parties gain any good
from it? The answer must be, we think, emphatic illy
"No." Then, wherefore all this waste of energy and
force? His Satanic could perhaps best
answer. It excites all the evil pwoions of men.
We observe that nine of the twelve candidates state
In their addresses that they have been regnested, hi
either "a considerable nninher," or "a large number"
of the ratepa)ers, or the burgesses of this b .rough. or
the wsrd, to allow themselves to be nonsinsted. One
Triplet announce to the burgeons "They have cousented
1., be nominated for the honour of representing your
interest in the 'roans Connell." Auotber Triplet
anually " Respectfully beg to solicit the honour of
your vote and Internet." Anther, the A.B.C. : "We
bane consented to offer ourselves for reellection." This
Is very dignified and yet humhle the other. The la-t
I Triplet, which have only just seen, tell us " rhe
=mud election of Councillors to fill the three
T. alliCalin In your ward • e mow at baud, and