The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-16 00:00:00

IX RC F 1 ESTER.

West [pm.' linter" writer to the .‘kerialrar
Journal as follows:
Sir—Your readers in "Vest ID.weet" may je.ssii.lr
see in other prima the report of their repiteentetive's
speech at Dorchester on the 2nd March (at the
throw inaugurating the l)mirchester and Fordington
Working Men's Club) without having the advantage
of any remark of yours upon it, es might have been
she cam had you 'seen kt to report it.
1 cannot say th.sw who hare not read that speech
are at all to be pitied For the mke, however, of
thoise who have read it, and may be misled by the
monstnius augments. and insinuations it contains,
penwzmajt„,-, make one or two winunenta I
[ will not go into the que.ti.m whether Mr. Var..
quhareon's majority n 1" la is " likely t be eradi•
cited." Time will 'bow that, and I believe in the
adinnative!
Neither are any connivent. necesaary upon obe
statement thou the Liberal party have shown any
desire to keep up the army and navy otherwise than
in a requisite state efbciency.
I would, however, rivet strongly depresete the
shameful insinuation that the London riots .4 lb,. st.l.
February were consequent upon the secession of a
Liberal Government to power.
Mr. Farquharson semi "It was the action of des.
pirate men in London, Leitester, arid tv large variety
of other large towns, 'rho felt all hope waa sons ina
that the i'sly way to get any conc....ion from the
Radical Government was by outrage, becaue. they
bad learned from the Radical Government that
outrage. always draw ounmerions."
olfs, rir, I maintain nethintaan be more contrary
to truth than this statement. Everyone lia..as "the
desperate men" were Owl mu. 4 London, not Ilia
workiat men auguring front depression of trade, but
the thief and his fellows, who seised upon the
occasion ea as opportunity for rubbery and outrage,
Aad tory time rer3r and riolasco were committed
by dune who know from expinusoe am bad only to
commit map Ut order to "draw aonelalorn Uom

• Radical Government," ix the grommet miestatement,
and on. I am only surprised should hays drawn cheers
from • !forest audience.
Mr. Farquharson cannot conclude has speech
without pension' allusions sod, as nasal, Lord
Wolverton is the person he selects " in • friendly
way,- of comae ! The taunt that Lord Wolverton
does not " work is vagoe, if fricndly ? and the term
•• work as not explained.
But the ilisin•lation that as long an Lord Wolver-
ton can "purchase cheap' he does not cats whether
the working clones " emgrate or starve," is loss
and unworthy of any Itea, much more of one who
calls Lord Wolverton " his friend and neighbour."
Let anyone go to !worn., and then say if Lord
Wolverton care* whether the poor " emigrate or
starve.- Let them notice the comfortable cottages,
and the general "wall to-do' merest of the village,
and he will. I think, say to himself, " When Mr.
Farquharson has dons Anif as much as this for the
benefit of the poor, he may than claim to be the
champion of the working classes."
I will "ft waste your space, sir, by any comment
upon the silly paragraph in Mr. Farquharson's speech
about Lonl Wolverton being made Postrametair•
General and Mr. Arch bring left out in the cold,
which I 1.1/1 again surprised should have provoked the
laughter of his audience, or upon the ono following, in
which the words " Sonconforinio Chapels and
"descendant. el Ananias awl Sapphire " are
suspiciously coupled !
leard Wolverton is well able to take care of him-
self, and has already "got the best of it " in more
than one encounter with Mr. Fanpiharson, and the
Nonconformists are not likely to forget the insulting
epithet applied to them. I will, therefore, conclude
with an indignant pruned against speeches like the
one in question, personal in ?hamster, and reckless
as re:tants truth; epeethea, I would remind Mr. Far•
apaharson, of a character never before indulged in hy
the representatives of Dorset —I am, Sir, yours
faithfully,
March 5, foul.

A WEST DORSET VOTES.