HODGE AND HIS VOTE.
A countryman, asked to give his vote for a Conservative candidate in the Midlands, replied that he would not.
Asked why, he said, “ Because they chaps be well enough paid already.” Then they explained, or tried to explain, to Hodge that members of Parliament were not paid for their services.
At last he made answer, knowingly, if somewhat angrily, “ Don’t ’ee tell me. I believe my eyes, and when I zees in t’ paper as they divides a’most every night, I knows they be dividin’ summat.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 7
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90HODGE AND HIS VOTE. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 7
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