THE CLERGY AND THE REGISTER.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1
SER,—Will you allow me to mention an experience which, as I know it is not singular, seems to me to point to a danger to the Liberal cause arising from the ignorant zeal of its subordinate agents, to which their superiors would do well to give some attention? I have claimed to be put on the list for my county, and am objected to by the Liberal agent, for no reason apparently but that I am a clergyman. Whenever you see a head, hit it, was the concise advice of the Irishman to a friend at a fair. Whenever you see a clergyman's name, object to it, seems to be the Liberal agent's idea of a revision policy. I submit it is a mischievous one. To assume hostility is one way to provoke it. For myself, I do not choose to mortgage myself to any party ; but as a fact; I have repeatedly voted for Liberal candi- dates, and the vote this clever person has blocked would probably have gone the same way. It matters very little to me whether I vote or no but it does matter both to a healthy political life in the State, and even to the Liberal Party, as such, whether rifles are fired at every independent head or at every parson's head, as such, without more ado.—I am, Sir, &c., S. P. C.
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