Mr. Osborne Morgan made, on Monday, an able speech to
the people of Wrexham, upon the necessity of stricter organisation in the Liberal Party. The next election would be fought under the Corrupt Practices Act and with household franchise in the counties, and a great number of "inde- pendent" candidates would be 'tempted into the field. Already an independent candidate, about whom he could discover nothing, had been started for Denbighshire. He held it best to beware of such men, who were almost universally either Con- servative wolves in Liberal fleeces, or men who cared mainly for themselves. He distinctly advocated the caucus, as the only feasible method of feeling the pulse of great con- stituencies, and attributed the defeat of 1874 to the absence of such organisations. There is no need to abuse the in- dependent candidates, who will often be fanatic philan- thropists, and not self-seeing at all; but the necessity for Mr. Morgan's caution. is becoming more apparent every day. When the counties are enfranchised, we shall always have a labour candidate and a farmen' cand'clate, and unless a previous agreement can be oh ained,lhe lanllord,' candidate will beat both. A man who votes for any Int the accepted candidate of his party must be held to wish its defeat. The rest of Mr Morgan's speech was of the ordinary party kind, except that he praised the Welsh Members for their great Parliamentary virtue,. —silence, whenever speech was equivalent to obstruction.
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