The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-06 00:00:00

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Mr. MONTAGU:IK GOIET, M. P. returned thanks for
his election from an upper window of the Rad Lion
Hotel, and he was reodvod with tremenduous cheering
by the assembled crowd. He said be thanked them
from his heart for placing him in the honourable and
glorious position they had that day, and he assured
*em that be would behave in every way as a member
should to his constituents. He also thanked them on
behalf of the Liberal party for having nullifier' one of
the Conservative gains in that county, His feelings
wonlrl not allow him to say more, but from the bottom
of Ids heart he thanked them.

Mrs. Pigs also spoke from the window, and she was
loudly cheered. She congratulated them on having
returned their man. There wee no disgrace about him,
and he would go to Parliament and represent them
properly, and he would do what he could for the town,
They had won a great victory, and shown that they
were not slaves, but free alga. Having WOW Um&
vidoiy, she advised them to go home quietly, and to
allow their opponents to do the same.
Mr. Gessr returned thanks a second time from the
steps of the hotel, and he WS/ again most enthrudas•
ticaJly received. He said they had achieved a grand
victory, and he felt that he had been placed in hie
prment position by the working classes of that con.
itituemy. It would be his great object to attend to
their affairs, and look after their interests, and he would
leave no stone unturned to be a welcome Guest in that
borough. He thanked them for having enabled him
to remove the stigma which had long rested on the
borough of Wareham, and endorsed Mrs. Pike's appeal
to his supporters to go home quietly, and not to inter.
fere with their oppoeent&
The successful candidate having received the con-
gratulations of his friends, left shortly afterwards for
his residence at Bore Regis. He was heartily cheered
on his departure, and the Wareham brass band
preceded his carriage out of the town.
At the entrance to Rare Regis, Mr. Gout, who was
accorapinied Iv big sister, Mrs. Ponsonby, was met
by i large and enthusiastic crowd. The horses were
token out of the carriage, and roe. were attached,
by means of which he was triumphantly drawn to his
residence, where he briefly returned thanks for his
sdeotim and for the hearty reception he had received.
We regret to have to record a most disgraceful imd
cowardly act on the part of Mr. Drax,'s supported,
which narrowly eaciped fatal results, It appear* that
Mr, Graa, who is a voter for Bare Regis, drove from
Wareham in the afternoon for the purpose of recording
his vote. Hs was met a little distance from the village by
a body guard of six mounted farmers, who escorted
the candidate to the polling station. The lineages
had made the day a lola one, ireely displayed
Mr. Guest's poloqrs, some of them carrying flags on
poise.As Mr. Drax drove up be the planing station,
the villager, waved these RAM which caused the
farmers' homes to bolt down the street. The crow 4
seemed to be under the impression tad; the immed
were showing the whit* tastier, and began to shout
and beet derisively, upon this the farmers, who are
all members of the IsomallrY, turned their horses and
wheeled into line and chlrged the mob, knocking down
a man named Hewittt. Having got through the
crowd, and rode about 150 yards rip the road, the
farmers again turned their hones, and ware about to
charge the crowd a second time, but they found that
the villagers had armed themselves with sticks, stones,
ems, kettles, and anything they mid yet hold of, with

shout