LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND MR. CAMP BE LL-BANNERMA.N.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE" SFROTATOR."1
SIR,—In one of your paragraphs on the "News of the Week," in the Spectator of May 20th, you censure me, not severely, for my remarks on Mr. Campbell-Bannerman in a speech I made in Marylebone on Saturday, May 13th. "Mr. Campbell-Ban- nerman's speech," you say," was, so far as we can see, harmless enough as a party speech." I hardly think you can have had laid before you a speech which Mr. Campbell-Bannerman made :shortly before—I think in Scotland—in which, from a local report I saw, he had attacked me personally, saying, among other elegant compliments, "that it was notorious that I was not responsible for my actions or words." This charming insinuation, I submit, I was justified in replying to as best I could, and but for it I should never have noticed Mr. Campbell-Bannerman's speech, no matter what he said cr where he said it. But I fancy you will not object to the application to political discussion of the old saying, "Those who play at bowls must expect rubbers."—I am, Sir, &c., RA.NDOLPH S. CHURCHILL.
60 Grosvenor Square, May 20th.
[Of course, we had never seen the speech referred to, in which this gross accusation was made. But would not Lord Randolph have done better to treat it with contempt P—En.. Spectator.]
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