THE SUPPOSED FUSION OF CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERAL UNIONISTS.
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR, With reference to the letter of Sir Henry James, which appeared in the Times of yesterday, dealing with what he
characterises as "somewhat misunderstood reports of his speech at Bow" on Friday evening, January 18th, in which he was represented as advocating, or reporting as an accom- plished fact, the fusion of the Conservative and the Liberal Unionist parties, will you permit me to say in your columns, as a Liberal Unionist, and, I believe I may say, as speaking on behalf of very many Liberal Unionists throughout the country feeling with me, that I have read that letter with a feeling of relief as a letter placing, or helping to place, us of the Liberal Unionist party generally right with the country and with all parties in the country, and in some measure tending to undo the evil which Sir Henry James's speech, as in the leading Unionist papers, was calculated to do• us ? Thus much in justice to ourselves, the entire Liberal Unionist party, whom Sir Henry James seems to have pro- fessed to represent, and for whom he seems to have pro- fessed to speak at Bow—whom inadvertently, or otherwise, he, in fact, misrepresented—I feel bound to say, and to say at once. More, as a member of the Liberal Unionist party, I am precluded from saying here and now.—I am, Sir, &c., ROBERT NIVEN. 6 New Court, Lincoln's Inn, W.C., January 25th.
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