It would be interesting to read the letter of some
earnest blue- jacket or private soldier who has written to his proxy describing the nature of his own political convictions. He could hardly have done more than write a vague letter on the subject, for he would not know what the political issue is to be, or even the names of the candidates. Then imagine an election at the front—even the near front in Flanders and in France. A period of eight days is to be allowed for the voting. But would eight days be enough ? If a division were suddenly removed by order of Marshal Foch from, say, the Belgian coast to the Somme, and was in some new and uncertain position served by precarious communications, would the voter be run to earth even in eight days ? As for the feelings of the voter who, when hard pressed at a lonely outpost with in- sufficient ammunition and food, was asked to read the rival addresses of Mr. Fiikin and Mr. Sluenkey, we hesitate to describe them.
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