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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4036, 5 December 1881, Page 3

[ADVBBTiaEMENT.] THE ELECTION. (To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) SIR,— -You say in a Saturday leader, "The supporters of Mr Sheehan hare undertaken a grave responsibility in allowing him to be nominated for only one constituency." Well, that may be so; he cannot, however, blame his nonsupporters at the Thames if he loses his •eat, for they, in a friendly letter a month ago, advised him to seek a seat elsewhere.. Mr Sheehan, at the Theatre, read that letter of advice, and pronounced it the dictation of those whom he was pleased to term the three tailors of Tooley street. Mr Sheehan knew very well there was no attempt at dictation in that letter, but he could not afford to be honest in his remarks concerning it, because he sought to make political capital out of the same. Methinks Mr S. will find he has made a mistake this time, and that the three tailors are a match for him, and a secret working power at the Thames, to an extent of which he has but ( little conception. Some other people also may rest assured that the power of these three tailors will not cease with the present elections, but will manifest itself in a manner of which they now have no knowledge. Thames journals—had they been lovers of fair-play, an object which should never be forgotten by a public journalwould have published my rejoinder to Mr Sheehan's garbled statement about that letter, but being all emphatically on one side, of course they did not do so. I shall be more mistaken than I ever was before in my experience if Mr hheehan, with all his legal and political acumen, through not taking advice tendered in a friendly spirit, does not have to take the consequences of his folly. In fair-play to myself and the Liberal Association you are bound to publish this letter.—l am, &c, William Wood, Secretary Liberal Association. [adtebtisbmeht.] THE ELECTION. (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) SIB,-— We. have two members of the House calling themselves Liberalsone we shall have to return as our representative. I am doubtful whether any man can be a Liberal, or should be con* sidered one, who is a member of Parliament and a Good Templar. I put it to the electors whether the man could be true to his word, who proclaims he goes into the Hop»e for the good of all, and won't allow a man to judge for himself whether a glass of beer is good, but says " I will do all I can to stop others from drinking because I don't drink myself." That man cannot be a Liberal in my opinion, and if he is not a Liberal of course he is not fit to represent the Liberal interest, because if he goes in under Liberal colors, and is proved false in one case, it is as likely as not he may be found false in others. Sir, it really puzzles me, looking at the utterances of the two members how the electors can hesitate as to their choice; there is no principle involved; you might almost say the speeches are identical. We are assured by Mr Douglas that Mr Speight is independent of the House for his living, and as we want to get as much money for each other, and can't live without it, we must send the man in who is most likely to get it for us, and we can judge from the past at to what may happen in the future should we change our present member. I "believe for the interest of all it would be better to send an entire-stranger to the House to represent us than Mr Speight.-—I am, &c, P.B.P. SthDecemberi

■;-•-■■ fiItVBBTISBMKNT.] (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) SIB,— Few Englishmen wpuld be found supporting a candidate who possesses do interest in a district as against a local man ; but there being no candidate in the field that any sane man would intrust with legislative functions except Mr Sheehan it behoves the electors to consider if this gentleman is not the only fit and proper person to represent os. With regard to local men we must draw the line somewhere, and I draw it at Speight, cranky Tarrier/or myself. Now what on earth could any of the three of us do at 'Wellington for the good of this district ? Parliamentary Government at present is simply a scramble for the loaves and fishes, and as Mr McCullough pointed out in his speech, if you do not get your share of the borrowed money, most decidedly yon will hare to pay your share of the interest. It then becomes a question who can secure to this district the moat advantageous terms. Mr Sheehan undoubtedly. I will put a case in point. A. flood lately took place on the Thames, and left the place a wreck; times were hard-rnumbers of men were out of employment. Now what did we do in this case: did we trust to Speight ?: Not a bit of it. His Worship the Mayor and Mr Brodie were put upon the track, and there you shewed your sense—the money was procured easily, numbers of men .received employment, and the disaster was tided over. It is absolutely necessary for men who hare families that a representative should be retoSied who possesses some influence and iifustened to, not one who is laughed at. Sir, I wish to point out to the electors the dangerous, malignant element that gathers round Mr Speight. In a letter in Saturday's Stab, signed "Pro Bono Publico," I find the English aristocracy are called " blood» suckers," and her people are designated as a "herd."' Of course it is of no sort of consequence that this alien knows nothing of English history, nothing of her nobles from Agincourtto Trafalgar. He has not the slightest knowledge of that grand, royal, and imperial race of, Englishmen that rose a little'islandto a power upon whose dominions the sun never sets. I simply call attention to these vermin, not that they are worth answering, but that Englishmen may see the sort of aliens that are rearing their ugly heads, and how they cluster found the Speight order of.intellect. Reform is hopeless while these vermin crawl about, and nothing but a strong and stable Government will keep them in check, and one thing we •re quite sure of—Mr Sheehan will not pall down, he will endeavor to create.—l am, Ac., G« Bbpdms.