THE STOURBRIDGE ELECTION AND ITS LESSON [To the Editor of
the SPECTATOR.] SIR.—Yet -another Unionist seat has been lost, and for the old fatuous reason—the hopeless candidature of a Liberal.
Altogether, 22,987 votes were cast for Constitutional can- didates, and only 16,561 for the Socialist, yet the latter goes up to Westminster as representative of the constituency. When will the lesson be learnt that the time has come when the parties which stand for Constitutional government must unite if the growing menace of Socialism is to be averted Never again can Liberalism look to receive the wide suffrages of the proletariat on which formerly it based its existence : never again will it come into power on the old party ticket, or indeed on any new ticket which it may devise.
The only hope for the future lies in a merging of the people, the vast mass of the population which desires to uphold the existing order of affairs, into one great united array, for, it is now an obvious fact that there is no longer space nor scope for two mutually destructive parties, Unionist and Liberal, which both at heart are seeking much the same ends. Only by a drastic move of this nature can a solid front be displayed to the forces of disruption and disloyalty. Only thus will the Communistic element within the State, that of misguided men and women who find in ruined Russia the beau ideal of government, receive its quietus at the hands of the order- loving electors of this enlightened realm.—I am, Sir, &c..
ONCE A LIBERAL.
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