17 JANUARY 1903, Page 16

THE NEWMARKET ELECTION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1

But,—Having read your article in the Spectator of Janu- iry 10th on the result of the Newmarket election, allow me, as one moving freely among all classes of electors, to assert that the Venezuelan question had practically no influence at all on the voting. I never heard the subject mentioned, neither did I see a single poster which referred to it. A dis- torted idea of the Education Bill and a mortal dread of Popery, coupled with a plentiful supply of very " cheap " literature, gained for Mr. Rose (a Churchman) the honour of representing the Dissenters of East Cambs.—I am, Sir, &c., MEDICI:1S.