The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-05-13 00:00:00

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY,

'lts manly sad straightforward addreat of Mr.
Mesterei Golet to hi. 000atItueota mad to the (putty,
though •outtde the death knell Wareham m •
Parbasseatary tenet'''. will, we believe, DA be un-
-5.10011e to all Lt•terale is the ooutty. There le
Ikea ,y • *thole c todidetee, all of theta excellent
pia for their party, but no I.lberal bee hitherto
fou64 warms enough to offer himself, whether
N. ceadidate for the one vacancy Dow extatlog, or it
Tier of poeuble coati. gem:lac Mr. eimet Is, as all
hour, Jed se he now ssaerte himgen, a tteteisteot
Literal, but sot a blind supporter of Um priming or
my Covenantee,. He ii• thorough Donetehire
am, .84 highly popular am ,ng this Überala of his
ball essaticoency an I the cousty. The air I, full of
; there +is sire Ay 140 00041sitss, all Tity,
led tits 07 Is thsy come." The battling of
the rival dens will WWI Cllll4O Oonaervatieut in
Dorset to boll sad bubble, and ustaffected by the
bumoil thee created, ought Mr. Guest to gall in
triamphantly on the tide of Liberalism sad popular
(war. The Liberals of Dorset may rely oa Mr.
Gmeth ward thet be will go to Um poll.

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la the &kabala Joaria4 is an admirable letter as
reprimeetatioe of the oosety, signed by an
"Old L,beral," extracts from woke we take taw
liberty of publiehlog :
So.—Remorse an assigned for leaving the field
vacated by Colonel Dishy 10b,.. or bur asudidetas
all al a Conerrvstive a dour, lied to eons miuds they
spoiler sudicisut. Tway are not so to ma; nor dI
Walt that on r, Beatles they will he toned t, justify
tie 44444 eupinenese of the !Abend Party.
The rraeons to which I have allu.le.l may be .uoinvol
Up tho : —We (1.11).414 bold ...a vet, ishku i• a.
nigh lows can aspect; and both putre hare broil
roowat with tbe errangenient for ermen-and-tersaty
YS' . Why disturb ? If we Interfere now with a
Nat 114 does not beloem to or we shall provoke
=Woo to Hu one seat we purees 4 the tiosteral
People who talk to this (sables appear to think the
liberels owe their on. emit to the Minority Clans*.
Testy Claims come into otountioe la November,
MA when Mt.Portmao had been member for Dorset
cow ten years. His erase fair stand-op fight bete's&
the two parties. There was some 0r.., voltam, and
ever 400 voters voted lot only two of the madidaters,
ead therefore threw away 400 votes that might have
lined nips out of any ton elections; but as far as
the figurm of that election allow one to judge there
Is moiling to show Conservative aniewlency In Hale
cresty. on the contrary, there is much to favour the
1410 that if three Libiar4 candidates were started for
Bonet biro, their Party would carry than all. lout
iwere it I. • long way back to 1857; them la a larger
cesteumay, and there him, Wee many changes
the large houses. Count them all up, tied reed them
LI the light of geawsl politic. sod see if they off or sop
emoitragsment toll. Librral Party to tbl• county.
Pr the eake of argoopeut eay lb. Nagai vw of '57
alga It le auaraifeet 1.1 11 oho Librrale Wen Garold
toot mau et the beef of the pod with..ot a rialuorlty
rhea, they cos dolt again if that youtrivaeoe is err,
Mt 4 prsetios In a Domelike electi .o. 'P. keep
tbe ese mat, therefore. It la quite n.,neormory to
moral 1., ths f orb. *ranee of our hereditary opt. 4ente.
ws wieh to
_purcbase that forbearance it mu.t be
4". "WI bad I sh"uld like to know what as reement
maid be made in the fate of the egistleg fact that
Woo are three {minty gentismee all &Canalised to
It Coking Digby's seat if they can. With whom
timid say treaty be mod.? Why, If It. Conserv.-
live wore reared two seats without a fight hereafter
tiers is already the third oialment who meet be got
114 01 ruder aey arraagemeet. And suppose (a meet
sappositioe) that oes of thine three ma-
ow fairly lauaohed and before the me.
.otelicY --coesented to retire, what is there to prevent
wean inedidate ? or two? or three? from oonalag
The lest ideation allords no data for testing
It le not even ooechisive as between =-
was. sad tenant The county men weal for Diehl,
11450ih0 did maay farmers • whilst such Liberals as
awed to vote weal for the r:natir, sot become they
.11,64 his politics but •dmired ble pluck. If • Liberal
144 Imo started then be would have woo, but we
o_,lnattteri the. the error we we about to repeat
*moot our rank and Ile to mingle with the meaty
they had formed personal frieodships. Parties
"b"oldsit um and In plecie .1 11. two (not ihrlelope
.Wll4sad Toy ws me Liberal, nod Conservative%
Fourth y.r nee, and people with "fad.
tits4ll education, reaolnatioe, CD's, Local Oplino and
ela•• HOW Without Wog forealdabi. in the
mese of those are aaaoylng and miscitievoes la
coastitneedes where the old poll al parties ere some-
*let mealy helmeted, and their adios mills tor atrkme
114, &MAN. Masi I yaws bawd runs el so •

Ha. ai its own, sad requires a nanrolints thous to bring
him back to steady of with his fallow.. What is to
be said of • policy which not only &Mows these young
noeton to Mu 1,.09., bat sees thou going 01 with •
strange pack without su effort to keep than in

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I do not care about Pushing the evident argument
which may be heard in "The Reform" MIA with
C4o.4"&livel cluttilig the grocad from ander
each other • ovilid Liberal vote would awry another
readidate. There might be some sort of oompromise
among the three If Number Four were started. You
ere I do 0.1 look on the caudideture of the repro.
seetativ, of the at. Mr. Fowler a. • serious matter.
Tbe three county men are each of them a formidalile
entity. I would mot owe to see a triumph obtained
through their diveensloos. What I advocate is. • fair
stand up fight inch as wee fought by Mr. Porto:ten
seven.and-twenty years ago, when the Liberals
asserted their right to a abate in the reprasentatioa,
and carried their to.n at the head of the poll by a
majority of nearly 260. To Mose to take any part
in the posing contest is to admit • weakness
which does not exist, and If it did should for
many meow be rather shown at once than bermfter.
Non impact made no• oso hold good for the Goweral
Election, and that there will be three Cooaereatly•
osodidatee at least no one can doubt. A Liberal can-
didate now would rally round him a well organised
puny at the nest urgency. Er•Il if be did not sooceed,
be would rouse the sluggish and dormant LAberal feel-
ing, awaken our sleepy leaders, and show to the world
that D..reat is not apathetic and curvier in its politi-
cal feelings 10 the inertia of it. Liberal loaders et
orient seems to imply. If our leaders wont lead
I hope the rank and file will take the field.