LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
HOW AM I TO VOTE?
PrO TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1
you answer me a plain question P I am a staunch Liberal, but I do not like Mr. Gladstone's measure. Neverthe- less, I utterly distrust Lord Salisbury. Now, I can only vote for a Liberal or a Conservative. Which is it to be P Not to vote at all would be unmanly, and even so I should not really evade my responsibility ; to vote for a Liberal makes me charge. able with all the consequences of a measure of which I foresee the dangers; to vote for a Tory commits me to a government of immoral politicians. What wonder if I ask again, and yet again,—Which is it to be P I have no wish, Sir, to make you my conscience-keeper, but as you are largely responsible for my uncertainty, I do ask you to state plainly what you conceive to be the way out of this difficulty.—I am, Sir, &a.,
PRINCE WHITAKER.
[If our correspondent thinks, as we do, that the Union is more important than any party question, of course he should vote for the Union, even though for the time the representative of Union should be a Tory. If not, he thinks differently from us, deeply convinced Liberals as we are, and we can give him no advice. It is only reasonable to believe that Lord Hartington will exert a far greater influence over the Conservative Party in the next Parliament than he has ever exerted before, perhaps even a greater influence than the Tory leaders themselves.—En. Spectator.]
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