The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-12-15 00:00:00

Alorset &until Exinto.

DORCHESTER, DECEMBER Ibrii, lAm.

Dotes.

The political eituat Innreuisins nnelucidated, Now
that the excitement 441 the 101 l hu abated there ia a
lull in the atmosphere. Kvery man ia asking his
neighbour what ia to happen ;a, one ventures Nein
a prognoetication, or hardly ao much as upon an
opinion, for the crisis ii witf precodent, and with.
out any very near analogies. yet no stateatnan,
except Mir Charles' has come forward to sugared
any solution of the problem how the f)neen's
merit ie to be carried 4n. And Sir Charles has come
to the remarkable opinion that it is lewd Ralishurfa
ditty to remain in office, and the ditty 41 advanced
Lilerala ti alipport him ! Indeed, after devoting
many weeks to convince the Chelsea Radicals that
light and darkness are not more diametrically opposed
than Conservative policy and Liberal I..livy, he k now
endeavouring to demonstrate that the difference
between the two partlem us an alight that patriotiam
demands from the Liberala the sacrifice of mere
party, and the active mundane, of the exuding
lh,verntnent, in promoting the reforms promised in
Lord Salisbury's Newport programme.

It is a fair electioneering joke, nnly a trifle ten
broad to be credible, that three ruatice oam. to the
poll last week in a Midland county each with a halter
in his hand, and when asked what the halter wee for
made anawer "In lest,' away the con." This "ass,"
has been untethensl a,, long that the lemater she is
sent to riffiAll thi• In any case, whstever the
rustic voter Inay he, he is not seri, a 1,1 x• i.
taken for, and proltahly wise the la•t 111.111 IN. taken
ni by his Own Jul,.

The ladies have taken an extraordinarily active part
in the present election. They li.as w:th
untiring seal, and their influence has for the neet
part been toed on the side of the Toriea. Sir Charles
Ihtilke is not the only metropolitan candidate who has
complained of their suleraliunrlant energy. It in the
Primmer League, of course, which has enrolhal the
ladies among.t the w.rrkers for the catiae, and the
Conwervativea are ilow bitterly lamenting that this
organisation, which i.no-ed so effectual in the boroughs,
was comparatively neglected in the "hires. Ainongat
the agricultural population the .treliite proroganda
has been untiring ; whilat, li• •
counties, hardly anything w.sa attempted I.y way of
counterblast until it was too lat... Will the I,,herxl
ladies ormie forward a. CAlivA.Ao•no at t nest
Election! Anotherquesti.m. Will the Cowed, at i . a
acknowledge their iielehtellneam to the dull., hy
siipporting, AA a bialy, the vrincipix fo•inn).•
cuff rage !

Anecdotes shoot th, late eh ction 111. l..nliful A.
beirrial m the holly. One or two are worth noting.
Daring his canvass. Mr. Itind called mein an breii-it
elector at Craidierne, soil, a owar..., solicited hi 4 sup.
port.

'• Well, but," 11a141 thenewly•entninchiaed, "lei' true
that they cAn't t.Il lo .w you do vote; and that thy
hallt,t'll
uvrt.nnly,' Me.
" Well then, olr, d.• lo,j, it F.," R th,
unanswerable rej.,lll.kr.
In antler a poilip.ti4 ingli.adwtlaxked, "And
may enquire lesw to, V•kl,
Oh n.u-ttrdy. .trtinly,"

uu.l how are yoo!'WO OW 11. .lot.ry.
71w. nply WM a " Why, 111‘.. you, hy
JUBA., t; cotin.e. Jlarnin' to IP."

A contempnenry in renp.itnil hw Lh. i.tlowing:—
" It wens. 01,4 any..ne emineetetl with
the medical hillvpritetining in the . :44..en s.
of thin o minty 4 lii net .I.lriont an eleeti..n
anl.,en.lea t.eir u, here v..tern t. ri.le I. lie p.. 11 in
the earri.ttp. lie 114.1 viigag.•l fir them :old T. wy
law Mr. Bowl : and if 11.4 t.ll 11tt..11114 i..n by
threatening improper medical treetisient ii :. time of
future eickitese."

Now, either them is an eseepisleni slander startling
truth. II the former, sh.. write,r should i.. odgpsu,,,l
SI utak' proper atonement if On latter, the offender
ehnubl be P4ee.4 in Ow eillory of lair opinion, and
some steps taken to see nhether he had not brought
hinwelf within the c1aw...1 of din Corseipg
Act.