rro THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You express a doubt
as to any authentic case of intimidation during the last Election. I send you, in confidence, the name of a firm of printers in the Eastern Counties. The proprietor tells me he has done printing for the Liberals in his division, and has been threatened with loss of custom if be dared to exhibit the posters. He withstood the threat, and it remains to be seen if the threat will be made good. I know of no case where a Liberal bas made such a threat, and should condemn it as strongly on the one side as on the other. That it has been used freely in the country districts I have no doubt at all, by the Conservatives.
—I am, Sir, &c., ALFRED WILSON. 18 Gracechurch Street, E.C.
[We print this letter, but we are bound to say that it is exasperatingly vague. It is not stated who threatened the printer, or what was the nature of the threat. Some men are exceedingly imaginative about complaints. For all we or, apparently, our correspondent know, all that happened was that some busybody said in the abstract :—" You'll get yourself disliked and lose business if you take such a strong line in politics." But that is not intimidation. To yield to it is merely cowardice.—ED. Spectator.]
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