The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-05 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL NOTIIB.

The first of November with all its excitement will
soon bs here, and already various report. are afloat as
to what will 1," dose as to th• election of six town
councillors and threw aldermen. We hear that each
politicalsarrty ((or it is no seciret that p lithe govern
monied matters in Poole) has selected not only
three derma but • Mayor, a sheriff, and mix town
couocillora, and that those whose pockets are enriched
by contorts, such is this., are clamouring loudly for
• light and no compromise. We are not °P
to °outsells( the f 'Ahem:dog election, but we thin thati
whether politics have, or have not, to tied& which is
the strongest pert, the Liberals are, under W
management, as strong as they ever wet...M
Parliamentary mat having been won by an expendi-
ture of capital, we may without exaggeration call
enormous, which capital we know came from a source
of a none too generous nature, it is presumable, if not
absolutely certain, that the strings of that long puns,
of which we have heard so much during the lad few
yeses, are now tiered to such minor matters is
municipal contests—and that, too, for an obvious reason
—the member for Poole and "ill his kith and kin*
have now come to the end of " the little game" they
have out such • dash at during the last few
they have achieved the height of their the
cock is now crovlipon his dung-hill, and % V
his wings in high but he knows that the
tribution of Bents which will consolidate emend
of the Dorset Borough, of which Poole will be one,
will produce for candidate, on both sides, men of such
high standing in the county, that no room wM be left
for anbiniotodre outsiders to tab their stand; moreover
the about to be introduesd awing& the practice al
°env , will effectually shal the months ol those
political women of both sexes who, in this pert el
the world, make it their betimes to paha upon the
most hielidiom and persuasive ignorant the
they are recouped, if not ',Militia=
pecuniary gift, with • cheap hack • piste of garden,
or • mangle. Jog as this etoket is coming *you the
tepid, we have no hesitation in expesedng our opinion
as to what M. verdict of the majority OI the Wo-
man ei Mit barge& will be. Them or teem the
respeeksble ead mere enlightened WM= si MM. WM
see, at the sae hand • tarty whely alseadted I.
Mai adoration at • most lisksitiblie gad katidliatiag
astute to Ottawa, before liana iM SOOMIIIIMMO•11
for the good and welfare of the Berme& of Poole sink
into hudgailesoeu whilst on the other hand thelwialls
see mesa who have proved thumb= able and eeis
I. seaduct the slabs of the borough to the eathdastiou
et the ratepayese. The buntemem should trassa).et
Wan recording their vote, that however mach the
adaracameat of the backmost hes been their Wilv.
the fateratts of the lova Is which they live eitoold be
their pine cuaelderatios. Both tides are re.Av -vhd
wino( to fight, Ifs fight is the only way of
the vexed qtwetion, but we an Mill that, abOaia a
battle take plate, and the rates be that looreased, we
shall have to thank the Castard, asmilled Ckusseva.
the piety_ kit the luxury et pay* mote name, and
the El4opling ascasiotted by the howl' ooplareot
asseekalsaa casasated with • maalcdpalcsaisti.

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