The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-10-25 00:00:00

"THE COMING FIRST."

BY "rex XAN ABOUT POOLL "

A larger, and if possible, even more enthnsinstic
meeting than that of Friday wee held in the Temper-
ance Hall on Wednesday evening, under the presidency
of Mr. Councillor Balaton. The Mayor (Mr. (1. Carat',
J.P.), Alderman Norton, Alderman Hamilton, Mx.
Councillor Western, Mr. Councillor Mate, Mr.
Councillor Giff ard, and others took part in the pro-
ceedings.

The Parcicurr announced that an offer of a corn.
promise had been received from the Conservative
party—that no cantest should take place, but that
either party should return three members. He
announced that he would leave it to the meeting, but
11/ far se he wee personally concerned he objected to
any surrender.

Mr. Hoar, builder, of Parkstone, proposed, and Mr.
Jesters, of Poole, seconded, that the offer of the
Conservatives be rejectod.
The resolution was unanimously adopted amid
immense cheering.
Addresses were al terwards delivered by Mr. Mate,
Mr. Western, Alderman Norton, Mr. B. Baker, and
the Mayor.
Politics In the ancient town and county of Poole
now take, and will do so until the eventful Ist,
precedence of everything.
War has been &claret the hatchet has been
unearthed, and the pipe of peace, smoked for tho hat
two years between the rival clans has gone out.
There Is no doubt, as I foretold weeis ago, we are to
have a contested Municipal Election.
What particular relation there is between politics
and public improvement, between Toryism and
turnpikes-abolition; or between Radicalism and the
rates, I confess I give up as an enigma that I cannot
solve.

-11;ave never yet come across anyone who could
furnish we with an adequate answer. The nearest
to it that I have arrived at, I gather from
Zlltroth
ee of both views, and that is "hang the
;"e",gtere, the well-being, the health of the borough,
what we want to do is to show the other side we are
the cocks of the walk."
_ .

people poseTh-e;ed-- of what they may egotistically
fancy to be common sense, this may appear • very
silly sort of way of caring for the interests a • place.
It is very possible these good people who thus think
have been born • great deal later than they ought to
have been. They probably ought to have lived at a
time when the chief recommendation tor • common
councillor was his own knowledge of the requirements
of the town over which he wu called to rule, and the
practical ecience he could bring to bear upon them.
But these are days of UPI-CJCIIMOII councillors, and
the chief qualification for them now seems to be their
colour. . .

Regarding matters in this light let me with the
greatest diffidence say & few words about municipal
affairs ea at present existing in Poole.
The mimes of the gentlemen who "solicit the
suffrages"—that is the orthodox term—of the electors
are precisely those I published • week ago—although
my contemporary the Herald affected to chat doubt
up= them as some of them being thaw of gentlemen
who would not be direly to seek office. The result has
proved otherwise, and my contemporary is out in his
reckoning.
The names of the candidates are as follows:
N.W. WARD.

Joseph Gifford
John Hayman Liberals.
William Hate
H. F. J. Barnes
P. E. L. Budge Conservatives.
K. F. W. Oakley
S.E. Vt.
H. P. Philpota
W. T. Trevanion Liberals.
W. N. Western
W. D. Dugdale
0. F. Wanhill }. Conservatives.
W. H. Yeatman
Addresses have been Issued by both parties. The
candidates on the Liberal side for the S.E. Ward evi-
dently appreciate the axiom, "brevity is the soul of
wit," for they content themselves with soliciting "the
honour of your vote and interest," with an additional
assurance that they will continue to use their beat en-
deavours to advance the prosperity of our town and
port, and by rigid economy in our expenditure to keep
down the rates of the borough. The latter prornim is
one which I need hardly gay will be duly appreciated
by the unfortunate ratepayer. who will only hope that
it will not go to form another &lel for the pavement of
a certain place.
In the addressee which have been fanged to
the Burgesses of the N.W. Ward, the Liberal
candidates are a little more prolific in their utterances.
It is interesting, and reassuring in the face of a des-
perate fight, to learn that it is "at the request of
many large and influential ratepayers we have con-
seated to allow ouraelvee to be again nominated."
Economy and retrenchment are their watchwords,
with a special allusion to their care for the Interests of
Parkstone.
There does not seem quite so mach literary ability
among the Conservatives, for they only managv to
make up one address between the two wards. Like
the N. W. Liberals, the blue half-dozen have tionsenied
—how kind of all these gentlemen—to be nominated
in order to give the electors "an °PPOrtUAIt, of ex. praising an opinion on the matter." They Bey, we
extremeli regret that in consequence of our being
unable this year me ar to co to a fair and equitable
arrangement with the Liberal party (the course which
has been adopted the last two years, with reference to the representation of the wards), a (mutest now
appears inevitable." The fair and equitable arrange-
ment consisted in the Liberals surmodering a couple of
seats for the last two years. Like Oliver Twist, the
Tory party have 0011 Nu audacity to ask tor another
serre—they want another two seats. Thel Liberals.
with all their liberigity, maid hardly see the lone a

S.E. WARD.