Direct Anyhow.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 August 1891, Page 3

Direct Anyhow.

■# . ■ A comical sfory of the late Erie j Drax is told in "Disraeli and his . day "(a lively and interesting work, juii issued by Kegan Paul, and Co.), which, in theso days of electoral independence, it may be wbrtb while v- to preserve, as an instanceof thorough \ i "'■ going, frank intimidation. 1 It runs ~' r aa follows :— " One of the curiosities 8 of the House, very rarely seen,,wa r Trie Dra.x, for. many jears meiiibe Hsi '"a ''Dorsetshire* 1 borough, fie app^earedHabdutl One ©Sfening in the }o i jFessipn, jn, come .Sep^ioija, jiot'at all. 1,1 appearance was tljafr of a villain' ous Don Quixote or Lisxnahago. At y the general election, on, tbe-day pre-, vions to the nomination, he put out the following address to his constituents : 'Electors of Wareh'am ! I understand that some evil'dispbsed . person has been oiroulating a report that I wi«h my tenants and other

'persons 'dependent's upon mexo vote according to their conscience. This is a dastardly lie, calculated to injure me. I have no wish of the sort I wish, and I intend that, these persons shall vote for me.' " There's no beating about the bush here, anyway.