The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-17 00:00:00

Liberals.

listhbons ... 16.706
W. Clans 15,801
W. Simpson 2,435

Total Tory votes ...
Total Liberal voter ...

34,942
... 39.789
... 34,942

Coneervative majority at 1 4,847
last general election I
Conservative majority now... 2,221

Conservative votes lost 1
2,626
similes! general election

Hence it will be seen that in that stronghold of
foyism a number of electors amounting to consider-
ably more than the whole constituency of Poole have
departed their colours, and are displeased with the
present disgraceful state that the countay is in. But
we are met with this question from our Tory oppo.
nents—" How, then does it come about, if the
country is in such • liad state, that the majority of the
Liverpool electors uphold the Government which is
now at the head of affairs?" The answer is very
simple, and an it specially serve; to illustrate the state
of affa;ra in Poole, we have much pleasure in giving it.
The present recently-elected member for Liverpool is, I
we believe, • Liverpool man; lip lea generous-hearted,
highly-respected gentleman, possessing numberless
qualifications of character which eminently adapt him
for his new poet; he is well known all over the city for
which he sits, and there is hardly • man, woman, or
child in Liverpool who ham not something to say in
praise of Mr. Whitley. To ram up, he is a popular
man; he has not sent his brother to represent
Liverpool, and petitioned against that brother's
successful opponent; he has not made Liverpool
a lot of pie-crust promises he has no intention of
fulfilling; he hu not soured the public mind of his
constituents against him previous to standing for
the city, and he has not sent his step-father to
represent it instead of coming himself, nor has he had
occasion to fill in a lot of the Mersey mu 1, or give the
Liverpool people any ether bribe to make them elect
him; and, instead of being as unpopular IN it is
possible for any man to be, he is the most popular
man to be found in the world. In a word, his popu-
larity carried him—evelThodi knew him, and
everybody liked him. Lord Ramsay WM popular,
but not in the sense of the term that M. Whitley was,
and he could hardly be called a stranger to the town.
Poole is the analogue of Liverpool fromtical point
of view. In Mr. Waring we have a popular man, and
a man who hai been shamefully used those whose
want of honour is responsible for their treattuent of
him. This bad usage has made him all the more
popular. At the last General Election he received
125 more votes than Mr. Arthur Guest. He is more
popular now than he was then, and hundreds have
pledged themselves to fight for him simply because
they like him, and to show their sympathy with him
In Mr. Schreiber we have a stranger. He is the step.
father of • gentleman who, after having been hearse
fur three large oonstiteendes (one of which is at his
own d.mrstep, and of which he is Lord of the Manor),
I. now about to take refuge in the of Porter.
llagton, with its 137 voters, • villagvte an obscure
part of Ireland, of the existence of which most people
are ignorant Mr. Solueiber has little that we ceases
to recommend him. Many of us have not open lihn
yet ; he has done nothing to make Poole favour him;
his stepson's unpopularity ever since the "fishy'
petition has not inlshed, so he cannot rely upon
that; and the politics he reprerosto are as mum
ruining the as.--thirstrry. Pll. an No bat to