Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-10 00:00:00

have too long given way. - -The

Municipal Elections are close at hand

struggle for ascendancy in our own borough will
be severe ; and if the results of the late petitiOns

against the returns of many Radical members of
the House of Commons are to be regarded as any

iticlex of the general tactics of the "great Liberal
" party," as they delight to call themselves, the

corrupt means used for success in the approach-
ing contests in our several wards will'not be very
scrupulous in their character, or in their tendency
at all improve the moral principles of the electors-
-We -have ne hesitation in saying, that no stone
will be left unturned by the Radicals to obtain a

majority in the Town Council, in order that they

may elect from their own party to the places of
the outgoing aldermen. They intend, we believe,

to oppose every Conservative candidate. We
hope, therefore, that our friends will not be
found wanting courage and 'energy ; and will

not rest satisfied with resistance, onl3-, or fail to
present themselves as candidates for municipal
honours in Radical ward§, so that no Liberal
shall be allowed to walk over-the course, or be

left without having, at any rate, to encounter a

hard race, even if he should pass the winning-

post first. Many new candidates have issued
their pretensions to the electors. The Radical
party have never been remarkable for diffidence,
or political humility, or any scantiness in the

catalogue of grievances they are prepared to
remedy. They have an abundant share of what
is called, perhaps not in the most classical, yet
in pretty forcible phraseology, " bounce
try to bolster up their boasted claims to popular
favour, by decrying their opponents, representing
them as the oppressors, plunderers, and enemies of
the interests of the community at-large, and pre-
tentiously appropriating to themselves the purest
motives of action, as the champions, guardians,
and real protectors of the civil and religious liberties
of the people. Such assumptions of merit we are

not prepared to accord them, because they give

no proofs of possessing it. On the contrary, the
Radicals, as a party, try to set every one by the

ears,—interest against interest, and class against
class. They do this from that disaffection which
they are ever so restlessly busy in rousing,—from
which they make political capital,—and this to
subserve, not any beneficial improvement of the
people whom they excite, but their own selfish
and personal ends—their own individual or party
advancement. Doubtless they are very impatient,
after so long an exclusion from municipal power,
to get into their own hands the management,—
should we rather not say mismanagement ?
our local affairs. The control which the Conser-

vative majority has exercised over them has been
a great advantage to this town ; since, had they

had all their own way, headed by certain dema-
gogues .we could name, it is very doubtful whether

the good old town of Liverpool would have had
any of its time-honoured customs and institutions

remaining,—at any rate in such a degree as
to be recognizable. The restraint which has
hitherto been so wholesomely and wisely put
upon them, by the electors, in the various
districts of the town, we trust will not be impaired

by any supineness or indifference. We have
reason to believe that no dodge will be omitted by
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