HACKNEY AND PROFESSOR FAWCEIT.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Permit me most heartily to endorse your recommendation to the electors of Hackney to do themselves the honour of sending Professor Fawcett to the House of Commons. Should the election. petition be abandoned, I should rejoice to find the Conservative party willing to give up the seat to be vacated by Sir C. Reed to Mr. Fawcett, although had any other Liberal candidate come for- ward, I should have plumped for Lieutenant Gill. But I believe there is no chance that the election petition will be abandoned. Should it therefore come to a contest between Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Holms, and Mr. Gill, I believe many a Conservative voter in this borough will split his vote in favour of Professor Fawcett.
lf, as you suggest (the recent election not being disturbed), Sir Charles Reed accepts the Chiltern Hundreds, Mr. Holms will be consequently made safe, and the contest will then lie between Professor Fawcett and Mr. Gill. In that case, I am firmly con- vinced that Professor Fawcett's splendid abilities and his sterling honesty of purpose will overcome the newly-formed Conservatism of many an elector in this borough. If the contest here be narrowed to this issue, I, for one, shall plump for Professor Fawcett.—I
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