The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-09-15 00:00:00

MOROUN WM TIN°.

Al I don't care ion: farthing for one side more than
the other, I willingly give insertion to the following
bit of hard-hitting. I will only add that Mr. Pike, if
he cares to avail himself of it and to reply, shall have
the aame amount of space at his diepaial AA Mr.
Maraden has been allotted : -
Sir,-In looking over that porti.in of your valuable
paper, via., the •• odds and Ends," 1 lin,l ato reference
myself aad a Mr. Pike. He is, I am informed, a
paid agent of the N1.A.L.1.1., and he it was who
elem ' such right...He indignation at the Cmaervative
meeting lately he!il at Mwanage- "tin earnest and
highly intelligent politician who jounneyel from
Colehill to hear the word,. of wisdom that might strop
from the Consertative candidate, as he (Mr. l'.)
had apt at ailed himself of the chance ml, re "-
becalm. he was (as M thinks unfairly) termed an
" untlemtrapper" in conjunction with his Itadical
. Poor fellow !1.. Is. guilty si such an eledition
of temper, because of my impertinence in so dubbing
him. It really wasn't right., courteous, Or soil Is,
atzle this nu... Newer of the Gospel (save thin mark)-
this political pedlar, who, I me by the paper, is
going to mount the caravan and dole out his political
wares (lire) by the yard -m one of the minor lights
of a rampant and atheistic itaslicali,.in I lb! it
wasn't the thing to wound the pri•lr and hurt the
feelings of our would-Is. political guide and (corker of
polity and morality. Perliape it would have suited
his position mid dignity better had I m..ken
of him &a a gentleman ; but my Moe idea
a "gentleman ' ii. not to be personified in the real
sham and humbug embodied in the make-up of • vett.
dor of abuse and calumny, or in the wild and rapid
screechinge of raving idiocy manifested by the party
who deliberately prevent fairplay and disturb the
meetings cif the Conservative party.
As also stated in your paper, Hr. Pike forgets (he
has a very convenient memory) how "consumedly" he
aughed when I was described as "a little man with •
red nose and • broken-down hat." That, I suppose,
was in harmony with the Methodist rule-" Speak evil
of no man." His limited notions and ideas of scurrility
and indecency blind him to the indieputable fact that
" the faculty for lying and slandering " is one of the
chief weapons in the armoury of Pike and Co., and
used on the public platform-the one on the Hal to
wit.

-"Personally, I don't care one iota for the abuses
osnatantly heaped upon me, it being the aped
radical infliction is' imelligent conservatives, and I
must perforce reckon on myself as one of the aufferer's
of that unmanly and iscurrilous treatment that pure
and unadulterated radicaliam mete" mit to thisse
who shirr to differ and think torthemaelvia

Now, Mown* Pike and Co, cii.a.e—y.our- tim- and
plan% and let ua has. tin aubject thoroughly and
honridly thraaheil out ; iir will you prefer to he
denounced ita political imp...item. 1 plane the alter.
hriore you. You have enjolrd and !mailman('
the working awn hanr inaugh. Caine nut and defend
your can..., or el.ie recant pour falai...pinion* growl
goo, sin adrnals 'bar NW WS, and embrace the principlea
that will built iip the country, and nob ilextroy it,
and hand it don w t.. yiiiir children'. children un-
tarniAliecl and Your, icily,
P. P. hf.taxiner
tit Mary'. Cottage, Longliert, Poole.