The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-30 00:00:00

Calm Calk ant Street (Echoes.

I was very pleased bi me that the Mayor had issued
• public notice relative to the disturbauc-s in the
town, which have now reached a point which is p•at a
joke.
The last tidbit I heard about the Conservative Waa.
didate wee that he had been promised 1,800 votes.
Poor deluded man, there are only 1,900 on the register;
but then, you know, you can tell the Conservative
working man anything.
•
I can't get any of the Tories to bike up my bete. I
offer five to four on Waring, and they won t take me
up—they want two to one. I am going to ulf,r them
this very shortly, but not until I hear that Mr.
Waring has received more than 250 promises more
than will secure his seat.

I hear that he has • majority of promises already,
without counting two districta stall; but I don't want
to say what that msjority its, for fear Liberal working
men might think I was gulling them, and Liberal
working men are not to be gulled.
I wish that the Tories would keep to the truth, and
act as sensible men. Their idle threats are most
amusing. If the Tory candidate is not returned, Poole
is to be disfranchised, there is to be another petition,
and • scrutiny, all subscriptions are to be stopped from
Tory sourest, all patronage taken away, all rents
rased, all allotments discontinued, etcetera, etcetera.
Really I fear that Tories think the electors of
Poole are the biggest fools in the world; they would
gammon them into believing anything.
Electors of Poole, make your minds easy; Mr.
WarW'e return is • moral certainty—his opponents
tell each other so. The mud works have not influenced
'ix votes, and there will be n ) petition, no ',mutiny.
no disfranchisement, no nothing, not even a rent
relied, or a garden given up. If you want to increase
the Canford patronage go against CanforrL You
remember when Mr. Arthur Gaon represented you that
we had no Oanford favours, and Mr. Waring's liberality
still went on, and has gone on ever since lest election,
and if you dual want to see the Tory purse strings shut
close again, vote yellow, for depend upon it when the
Tories get into power again they will only turn round
and laugh at you.
And above all things do not despise your enemies;
remember they will leave no stone unturned to secure
every vote whioh money will buy, or the Cauford
screw can screw into their pocketa.

The Liberals have worked well, their or,aniz tion is
perfect, their hearts are in their w, rc, en 1 in a very
short time their man will be returned by • maiirity uf

Well I meat not say, although I can tell to ibout
i 28, for f I said the number, perhaps some of our
Liberals you d shut up their poll ti mks, awl say that
there was n need of them to work any more.

Don't the Tories leek crestfallen? I hear on all
aides that their candidate is disappointed with hi.
canvass, and he said to one of my friends the other
day "1 fear I am fightinr a losing game." Those
were the exact words, I believe.

And they were true, too ; they were too true, they
were the truest worts I ever heard of him uttering.
No doubt he is fighting • losin; game, • game for the
"Safety, honour, and welfare of the house of Can-
ford"—three items connected with that house I have
yet to become acquainted with.
Talk about "The honor of old Raglan 1" —rubtiish,
Mr. Schreiber—there wasn't very much of " The
honor 'fold Englani " in that Canford petition, was
there? and there was not very much hon tr in turoing
poor Harland out of his house. The honor conuected
with your party is something like the bottom of the
mud its the Ladies' Walking Field—hard to get at. It's
very deep down—at least, a the "Poole Sun" ssys.
To the Tories of Poole. You will please hereby
take notice that the man who As appointed to the
vacancy caused by the retiremeut of the gra it Irish
(I thoufht he was Ameritaus) greaser st about as
blue • 'tory as Poole can b no.t of. This new greaser
is a great linguist and mathematician, t sok a double
first at Oxford, and is one of the bet educoted men in
the county of Dorset.
I implore you, goo.' Tories all, de not call people
"poor," and tell stories about them, until you have
found out the facts of the case, and don't ask me to
set you right in the case of the Irish gremer, but go to
the mill, and ask why he got the sack, and see what
a pretty blue bill you conk' print about it.
Then, Messrs. Tories, you tell other equally large
" crammers" about the Harbourmaster in your nasty
blue bills. Our present Harbourmaster was not a
stranger to Poole—the only stranger I know who
wants a post of honour is your own friend, Mr.
Schreiber, a man who even yet half the constituency
have not men—hundreds of them have refused to do
SO.

Let us have no stranger taking away the best berth,
then. Let oar deer old friend Mr. Waring, who has
known us for 16 years, represent us as be has done
before. An Englishman is the best man to represent
the "honour of old England," of which we are hearing
such • lot just now.
The WANDIBI3I, in Poole Telegram
Lowliest, March rind, 1880.