The St. George's By-Election Mr. Duff Cooper's majority of 5,710
in the St. George's by-election on Thursday, March 19th, was thoroughly satisfactory, and his speech after the declaration of the poll was an admirable Message of peabe. He said that although there had been acrimony and much abuse, he bore no ill- will, and he hoped that bitterness would be forgotten and unity recovered. The important thing is that the attempt of certain newspapers to determine who shall be the leader of a Party was handsomely frustrated. We trust that if the attempt should be repeated there will never again be such confusion as there has been lately about the proper functions of newspapers. A newspaper proprietor or editor has every right to press his policy as such upon the voters ; but he puts sand in the democratic machinery if in his position, which is necessarily irresponsible in a Constitutional sense, he tries to take over the responsible task of saying who shall lead a Party.
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