The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-02-26 00:00:00

W.Mans Curtis wat summated for drunkenness at
Upwsy.—H s pleaded guilty, and was fined 5. and costs.

TOE CONEERVATIVE ABBOOIATION.

Judging by the appeaded latter of Mr. H. R.
F uharsoa, there I. the prospect of a serious split in
the 000aervMlv. Party over the organisstion of the
raw immolation. We do not claim the power of
piercing the gloom and has, surrounding the matter,
but it certainly seems Mr. Farquharson has fair
reason for hie objectioLs.

To as ldilor.
As some remarks I made at the Milborne Fenner,' Club
&maw ooscernhen Ow action of the visioual committee
appliabed to organise the O ~ Association appear
to bare been misumherstood. perhaps you will allow tin
the am of your c 'lomat to make my memoine more claw.
Like all others who realise the patrktic optin of the Oar
eervelle• pa,te. I see the absolute tatmemitY
Its rooks dada; the present Coumpeteetly, whoa
likorinery too uousserathre Ainoci•Uou tdd am at
Milboras that the pn,i.4n4 cwenalttee had assumed ow-
Potirwl waidli I 444 sot *Mak belonged to it, I lost so
tease to peohmilad lettaset gook emadatne Maas by.. dobeit
I hoped lo Fame • Imisisk• Wad am* witliA Wait

offend many Consem•tires and pram it them from joioing
Coo semeletiou ol the party now Anus organs...A Bat my
raaarke la.. "ma usauuderotood. 1 have bis accusal
a sowing diseord, eat one of ydur coaampOrwim. with
• rare porcoption, has oonsldered <mita atm "captious,"
and baa .0114.4 on 0 °inkling the Cotner••live knocli-
ai in ( •bich does in..t yet now), who my remark. is reality
r•'er..ed to the acAcio of the COLlnainee .ppaiiitrd LO
Granite tint as..cistiko. sio • Cimerrativd, it .OQOI
like7y gist I as .uld lialet!, criticise a cemmitsee of Cote
eeevotive gratiemeo, nesny of whom ere my person"
Mint° ; indoodi ordinary prop!" will me that I had ditto
to asti by eu:h • worm, ape ban will pentium eile Ir
bolf,•. list my rennin inn undo with • wish for tba
unity at Va. pate, at Lail% as miner* &I Lan OI Ole
as online& jouraeliot who evened ma Of C411.1.10t/11
The S cristary of the Conservative As.cid.tion told me
at 11 abase that the prone oftel ol.aulittoo. which or a
appoioted It the greet funtiog at D ochsster, its I drawn
up • code of nal.. for the sesoamilon. This, I think, it
bat no business to do. The proviaoual caussiutt • was
aloP)ioteal tn. nil/ to it t people to join toe associ lion.
end when they had josnal, to elect a cousent Si (or near
selves. It waa this *martin net was to make the
. rules, because it w mid he eloaned by the inember • them-
mivi • but the piorgiumal cosimilso has, al I think,
n.urpeCi Its power" and made tie rale. 01 this Uoaitlatt n.
But if the provisional camuilitee ism gone • HO* bar oud
it, psl.r, in ita anxiety to be of eervios to the •04 14:4••
Sons lem lure I as. the lan mama to blame it. Whet.
ever It bas dorm it has doubsiews done wit. the boa
intentions, but if I Mimi' looms of it, wort as likely to
meat in mischief Bundy I an not to blame for ea hug
attention is
It meta. CO one that in drained up a outs of rails.
to. mations.' csuounitsis has u.Jt only tom beyond lie
powers, It has Mine Very dangerous oatcake.
Before any prudent was joins the Asaimation, he will
mak lose. the roles; hi knows tie; if he bosoomse •
member, he will be basal to with with the Ao root on
sad support the caJdifata it nommen* ant he 11l
theret,ere carefully otuly the rules to 'blob he la to bind
hirnseU, before he bec mem • Meal per goal toys his
alibiing. If he dole cot iike the sail s he will not lola
the memistion. The provisional coisaiui is has is foot
established a lost; it aaya if you an • Uoui,••iiir• bud
will incept our ‘11:41111.4. May Jodi the at.. 00 eton. (his
I think :1 hai so busing, to do. As I ondoret•od the
raolotion tair..d at the gnat Men& ee a. Dere:ant. r
east, ruse else was a Doan/cativo moist j i.n the
anintettoo ; there ass to be no quasoion oh agreeing to a
cite 01 rUlsi ; the membere wars to ell.Ol inn sin COW-
wines and make Its r .an rules. Tao only tsit was to
be prdleasi•in of Conissivativii principled. No • • nom
wiihiug to j rho 'ant ales pool -so to sine will the rat.
made by his 5slNIVI•10051C0111 JILIN- IL is hums to
S use Cn.ssrv,tsyss tire sure nit to like thirst.. Of is.
provisional comonottm (ho ably th-y may be die en
11.14, sad will therefore not j .in the association ; and a,
tarn man sail en Is act in hotrumuy with the m.j ori
of the ConervatiVes ol the inouty, I rid at )Lib, in
that I abO'Lle oat 10111 the us... Genial Wall I awn hoe
many of the 'lactose of it. county jAnsl it awl &Pig .vwd
of the rain drawn up by th• prow•tooal onimitsee. I
had hoped that by meming is Can I might prewon% •
mistake being esside, lad my remark. were 00044101 in
as booms wish for the unity of um party, ant If tiny
haw* hat a coetrary .1. 11 1 eitunditiaiy flaunt it list
the role. as Imus.d, sod everything depends on their
popalsrity if they at. popular, no harm end be,. Inn
done, and ihs Comervativis elicitors will Joie the aanoit-
tiou in twit thousanla Tse honorary meccas,' of th.
111100G1I100 told us at Idaho."' foga at all annals the rums
were drawn no the bans of toe resolutions carted at the
great meeting at D.rcb.atior. • z:ap. just at the end."
und.rot sad that oas of Lb* ,alas ii.oisras that the annual
meetings of the smocotioa shall be at D irchester,
another that the meetings of the contra committed mail
bs at Darchsetow, not soother Met Its 01 the admiral
oonanittios shall bd sudkioni to transact beeline'. I am
bound to o ,1161811 that I can find no aagestion of such
rules in the Dorcheemr resolutions, bit pia:kepi tier ere
the exicatioas Jona at thio end. Now, am them rules
likely to be popular I Will the Odussovative electors loin
la. emaciation under such ram! Will tlis tralamea,
small frewholders, said wurking men ot the Biendford,
Sturminster, Stsibridge, Odashamon, Shatosbury, and
Shoehorns districts join an emaciation the meetings of
which they will never be able to sit tin I Will they riot
say that the annual rri Alms. Amid be held at the d. ffer-
eat town* in this csuety. Se that the buonem men In ',sea
district might sometioads bo able to attend the meetings
of &bar •8110Ciaikli I
Hem stein, .111 11 not occur to the people of thc county
that. oonsiddring the Control Committos of toe Ass
lion will number between day and sixty members, whoas
chief duty will be to expinin the wishes of the different
dietricte in the county, and, oomidering that ths rant' bin
of it. (intimates are always to be at Dorchestir—si piece
moat difficult to got at fort is asej way of oanuolttee-men
—will it not OCCIIf to the me ipie that flee la a very moan
number of,. lags • committee to be allowed Ii transact
bitable's, and that *um, day some important work ideCUNI
the whole c.sulty mar be done by At. or six genason se,
whom resides.. near Dorohester may readier their attond-
MCI at the consultive moy
If tho provisional committee intend. to insist on It,
code of ram I fe•l that harm may come to the Anocia-
tioll It was instructed to orgoniz • become I think p.ople
will not loin an jar such rules. We mar be told that the
rail-re can be altered at th• Art aninilig of the moat Aim ;
but only members onar attend the um glue, end mauls .re
will have to the rule. 4.ire they isle; so the
chance of &aeration is slight Indeed.
It is now too lam for the trovi•iontl imamate* to
re-consider its position; whet or it is right or wrong in
making rules stall lea very smell matter, so Gest those
rules are popular. At lament some of its roam ere Oda.
tionabl; end will doitar piople from j mining. LA the
unpopular rules be withdrawn, let every Cniervatlni
bat,,. ii join the association, sail thou the labours of
the provisioael committee will have ea-nod for it
the moment and giwitude of every well.wisher t
the usociatidn, the Comervatioe party, and the Constitu-
tion.
Gunwale.

HENay R. FARQCII4ISON.