[To THE EDITOR OF TED "ErsorAros.")
SIR,—The Liberal canvasser "A. C." who writes on the above subject in your last week's issue ought to be very grateful for the mildness with which your editorial note dismisses his absurd communication. His examples of undue influence appear to consist of nothing more than statements by land- lords that their interests are the same as those of their tenantry. You may believe this assertion or not but to many it must sound more credible than other political doctrines advanced during the Election. He passes from this grave indictment to a rambling denunciation of Tariff Reform, and a. wish that the landowning class had tried "to impress on the people a sense of responsibility and independence and honesty of conviction." Why this admirable effort should be confined to a single class it is not easy to see. In our neighbourhood at least it was not understood that the Conservative Party had any monopoly of "ignorant and mischievous fallacies," and in a falsehood competition among the tattered posters "A. " party would, I fancy, do something more than bold their own. In many of our districts on the polling-day Conservative colours were worn at the risk of considerable personal injury. Crowds of enlightened Radicals surrounded the polling-booth, and bravely threw things at the passers-by. Intimidation with us consisted, not of the "feudal screw," but of the popular brickbat. We want "A. C." here to "mould and train the growing strength of the demoeracy."—I am, Sir, &c., NORTH COUNTRY.
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