25 DECEMBER 1909, Page 15

tTo THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."1

Sin,—Our attention has been drawn to a letter in the Spectator of the 18th inst. signed by Mr. W. A. Hirst, and apparently written from this club, which recommends the withdrawal of Mr. Shirley Benn from the contest at Battersea in favour of the Right Hon. John Burns. The political section of this club desire me most strongly to repudiate this letter, and to state that the same was written entirely without their knowledge and approval, and that no member of this club has any authority to use its name except on behalf of the official programme of the Unionist Party. We would ask you to give this letter the same publicity as to the one written by Chairman of the Political Section.

Junior Conservative Club, 43 and 44 Albemarle Street, W.