The Liberals of Birmingham need not boast any more of
their brains. They have been devising all manner of painfully elaborate schemes for securing the return of three Liberals, have worried workmeu with mathematics, and mapped out the town into A B C sections, and all for no end. Glasgow, which is in the same predicament, has hit on the simplest conceivable plan, which, nevertheless, can hardly fail. Every Liberal elector as he goes to the polling-place is to read the latest Liberal returns, and vote for the two Liberals who have the fewest votes. Nobody can for- get that rule, and nobody can be tempted to vote for a candidate lest he should by possibility be defeated. If lie is first, he does not want the vote; if he is not, he will get it. The Glasgow man Who struck out that scheme ought to have a testimonial from Mr. Bright.
