LIBERAL UNIONISTS AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In writing that none of the leaders of the Liberal Unionist Party share Lord Salisbury's desire for the adoption of woman's suffrage, you must surely for the• moment have forgotten Mr. Courtney, not to speak of such prominent advocates of Unionism as Mr. Caine, Mrs. Fawcett, and Mr. T. W. Russell. When you say that you believe there is not a single Liberal Unionist "who would follow Lord Salisbury's guidance in this matter," if you mean that there is not one of us who would vote in favour of giving the Parliamentary franchise to women otherwise qualified, merely because that is Lord Salisbury's view, the statement is, I hope, true. None the less is it equally true that a large number of us earnestly desire this reasonable and logical crowning of the edifice built in recent years, a step which seems to us at the same time so liberal and so conservative.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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