The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

YOUR VOTE AND INTEREST.

The seapdrt town of Fl•thitropton, whish has the.
adirentsy of being reozenterl D Parliament, is now
being courted by awl.n d Tm Radler, whoa) for two
re en. I •n• •exinee to see retereed ; gra, because hie
political opinion' ere less stratify costae,' to elpe
thaw of map ef my friend; which, perhap,. is a small
thing; bat secondly, beano* he is a rare good fellow,
which is a great thing. When. therefore, Le proposed
• few seeks sines that I should go down and help Min
In his canvas., telling opt that it would be awfully good
fan, I we very clad to accept the proposal, and altar
the experience I have gained I can say that the amass-
ment to be got out of •n election is sui trine to that to
be obtained from any other ormopetion with which I am
al'atinima. In his train Tom gave me a sketch of the position.
Near to Flathampton is the ancient 'wit of the &rhino
fenily, who, front time immemorial. hart been sped
Tories. Bat, on the death of old Sir John, his spa
Charles got converted by a Whig fatber.in-law, and ha
has now pot forwsr I young Ilatyre, a Whig brother.in-
law, for the borough, en:sporting him with lb. whale,
weight of the estata, which hu some 150 voting tenants
in the limits. But Tom is the cleverer, the better
looking, and altogether the more poiiular of the two
candidalea, and to buck himself against Barkios
and all hie work. attire to one.

The agent for our aide is the moat depresaing
create,. I ever bebeld, and he met us with a on
eetalogue of misfortunes. There was • runner that
Maltyr had got • loiter of recommendation been Mr.
J. 8. Mill; somebody had said that Tom was spinet
trades-anions, whish had driven the masons over tithe
other silo. and somebody eke, Oast be was a Protest:ea-
ist ; the mayor had been anaxed over to the Harkins
inhaler and so ors. It would be neoresery to work very
bard, be 1.14, ant fur the mixt day he proposed that wei
should begin by pristine end posting ten emphatic
denials, and torrembe (More were at on.. handed over'
to m.): that we should then raver some fifty yet...,
and finally vi•it rod adders awe committees in as many
public-home parlour..
A fa w incidents a thie morass will fire a fair idea of
the whole oft Wu rode out of the town sooompanied
by the agent, to an outlying district. The first voter
we canvassed was a small fernier, whom, but that I
line, better, I should have taken to he one of those
promised voters who weigh well the marita of candi-
dates, and only give their votes after deep deliberatioe.
"He didn't know yet which way be should go; but,"
said be, "they be going to tern me out o' my bit of
land." "Well, but why r Why, they will have
it's my fault my 'takers &int bigger r
unelo to meke more of him, the &gent asked "who
was that gentleman by the gate r—ths gentlemen in
question being engaged in digging the calumniated
potato.; (they were very small, certainly), and appear-
ing to be in a somewhat clayey eondidion. "Oh that
he Os. Cole." " Has he • vol." "Yr ; we'm all
voters shoot here." Over to hint we went, and Too
shook hands with him, au operation almost of universal
nearby, which constitutes a strong recommendation
for tenure old tires during. raver. He too, was
very voderded—" I never makes no promises. I said
I wouldn't and no more I won't" and with that be hung
his bend in the charnel aced manner whir mean peculiar
to free ond independent voters, and we tented out of
the Geld.
Thies were the wise aileron waiting to be bribed.
Farther on we mune up with • won-to-4o la:4We
loan, who tamed rowed, and, 00 rani u, took tiff
his lid, pet it ou stein, end then tabbed his bands.
"Glad to no yea 11,4,12 'MVO& re t 0.00 ; I shall din
all I can for yen. I more to vote for yea, and so do.
my son, sad AI our friends. As for that other shop, hie
ain't got no ranee."
We thanked him for his support, Bed his opinion at
the ease, eben, pointing to me, he said :
" That be Sir Charles, hain't it 1"
He had taken us for the other side' but I signed to
Tom to erg Dothing, and at once eat le mad seed his
DIMS
My num) be Jobs Rigp. rsa one ce your Wands.
Sir Cesar."
Indeed ! flood day to you. Oh Iby the way bar
you ern the steward about that little matter of ;rain
the renter

"No. sie—no.—(esgerly). " What belt Ye We%
eyrie' to raise r
• Wen, I should be very sorry to have to do eo ; but,
you keow, everything is rising, However,prcy don't
mention it to anybody. Good day, lir. Riser.,
With that we rads of, leaving Rigga with his eyes
and mouth open, in the greatest eseetereatioe. 01
*owes he told everybody next day that the rests were
all to be raised, and, though it has bees " emphatically
' denied; the idea has stalk, and I gaped it will got on
ten or twelve votes at lesst.
Tiale is the well-informed asortor, who dose not know
one sandidate from another.
Later In the day, hoverer. I was thrown badly. We
were convasting a teetotaller who kept to the owe point,
that he would not vote for nobody who woe cot in
favour of 'dosing rabbis homes as Sunda" in order. as
be said, to "put a atop to the drieking posetiess." Tom
could not go that length; bet I same to the reggae.
"ire yne sure that ate closing of yablipbonies would
pet • atop to the drioking wadies. I"
"Why, of soures."
'W.II. experience is Use otter way. Per lastesee,
In the "Side of Maine, in America" (I took my ground
• long way of adaisallyi, th. rising pne t.vely isereased
the drinking. " how, I have" (hers I drew out my
bottine-book with all nonesatsr betting in it)—" yea,
Ups lilt—same statistics, mime (rote the report of the
,shinS inspector of prisons for Maine, by which it appears
that the sonvistmee for drunkenness rose after the
liquor I& y, es nearly ea possible, twelve-and a-half
per amt. That is to say Oar
" Beg ;our pirdon, sir, but ree loved is Maim, bosi
' part of my life; and it's ell the Wise way r
Tte blow use too musk for tee. So I awn*
remarked that be was quite at wises* with the ciacial
report*, sad we walked sway.
This is the starsionaslike eleotor, elemeleg foe
keglagjog is, Illhh who will Foveae hie
Gamin from settle( Moly.
Whito eamilluesey
AM them am* moo Mee ik—T•MAI Ain

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