The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-23 00:00:00

THE DECADENCE OF TORYISM IN
DORSET."
th. ;Amor.

Sir, —ln reply to your corresoondent, "Mugwump,"
I most first congratulate him on his wonderful
sda.sical edu -Aloe ; and his knowledge that it MU
1!...ar who tame, new. and conquered, is in the
laiglient &lye commendable. But IMn afraid that
hi„ srody of ele.nicn Ilan proved rather too much fir his
brain -hence hi, inability to properly comprehend my
letter. But, OXlK•SPft.illg Ult. great failing Mikis class,
he cannot get from one idea, ...le groove. Who but a
f,...ilizett Tory caren a ra,i. iii thew go-ahead days,
shoot harking hack to the minty age* of antiquity
I mu-it ask him, for goodness sake, to pinch himself to
ascertain if he be alive or not, then, if the forever,
to wake up, "move on," and try to make an effort to
keep pace with the times. I &ilk him not only for
his own sake, but for ours, as it in hard work fir
Radicals to have to be onitinually collaring sleepy
Toriem and giving them a ',baking. Then, again,
whatever does it matter. and who cam, what oracles
did thminands of yearn »ince. I spoke, as any mnsible
man would have perceived, of the political oracle of the
nineteenth century—only my way of ereaking of him
did not price particularly palatable or agreeable to
'• Mugwump." Itoos he know of any wise men of the
present day who remain much at home? Why, they
are &linnet ite labiquitoito am the Prussian uhiane were
in the Franco. Germen war. Away with your
" Mugwump," and try emitting more suitable
to your abilities ; do tell me, if you can, isime druidic'
measure of reform, which has ultimately proved •
great blooming to the nation, that the Tories have n it
opposed. It would have been about as sieneible to
have opened ul. a discusiion on the political economy
of the Hotteutsita as to have taken refuge behind
classics, for the piirpose of ehirking the real queetions
at iseue—namelBy, that you and your Tory magnate*
having, with partan•like courage, swallowed the
nostrums of a Bermondsey political quack. Imind that
they did not digest so well an anticipated, and that
you had not only put your stomachs out of order, but
had made youreelyes the laughiragodock of your
Radical opponents'. [Yoder the cireistrintances,
freely forgive "Mugwump" for losing his temper,
imeldenly forgetting his claamicm, and plunging into the
Billingegate vernacular with an the ardour of a fishy
porter. Still, he will excuse me for reminding him
that • Tory prig in by no numbs an unomnmrm animal,
lint I am too courteous to place him in this category.
"Mugwump" says he ham no " vital " interest as to
who represents the Southern Division of Dorset. He
need not have mentioned thst—enpme can own with
half an eye that he is not at all interisited.—Hoping
that by this! time " Mugwump " haw recovered his
equanimity of temper, I remain, route truly,
Ax Aunt',

FRENCH VIEWS ON MR. GLADSTONE'S
IRISH POLICY.
M. Pierre Barogn,m in L • rourrier Rai", i•
writing Alvin' the British Governmental crisis, says :
"Mr. abuistone's in a master mind. He is nit like our
loin.. 1111 statesmen who, as they advance in life, loee
all courage and initiative. If he falls on the Irish
question lie will fall nobly, and in doing so be an
illustrious example for all younger statesmen to look
up to. If they do not rally mind him when he in
defeated, what will it matter to him? He can tin
without them all. He will disarmlllr. Parnell, by
Piot SQllOlllllliOll4, and became his follow worker in the
paedirction if Ireland. It is not hoping too much If
we look forward ti the constitution by Mr. illadstine
of an Anion-Irish Dualism like the Trans and Gni.
10A1Iniall "me which exists in Anglo-Hungary. He
Is the only great statesman of his time who Is truly
Republican, truly democratic, truly reforming, and
who understands that it is through Inner strength,
end growth, and health, and will being, that elation'
can deserve to be called'