The Vicar of North Marston, in Buckinghamshire, writes to yesterday's
Times to say that, though a Liberal Unionist, he is supporting Mr. Leon for North Bucks, because he believes Home-rule to be utterly dead, and hopes that both parties will ignore it altogether as a factor in general polities ; while on all other questions be is with the Liberals. At the meetings he has attended, he says, it was evident that if Mr. Leon is returned, it will not be because he is a Home-ruler, but because he favours Allotments and Local Option, in the Liberal sense of those party cries, and because he is personally popular. How indignant Mr. Gladstone would be with this declaration, conceiving as he does that the Home-rule Ques- tion has been becoming year by year and month by month ever more and more acute ! But Dr. James should kill, and bury Home-rule out of sight, before he ignores it. He will hardly like to discover that he has ignored it before it was really dead and buried. We hope that Dr. James's account of Mr. Leon's election by an increased majority,-381 as against 208 in 1889,—is true. In that case the result may be reversed at the General Election. Now, however, Mr. Leon has received 5,013 votes, against 4,632 given for Mr. Evelyn Hubbard.
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