Polling in the Ayr Burghs, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr. Orr-Ewing (Unionist), is in progress as we go to press. We may note, however, as a significant and humorous feature of the contest that the Conservative candi- date, Mr. Younger, was driven to protest against the em- barrassing attentions of the Tariff Reform League. On Monday, according to the Times report, Mr. Younger said "he was glad to say that the Tariff Reform League had taken up its bed and walked from Ayr. They came there without his asking, but he could not interfere. They did nothing but confuse the issue upon which he was fighting this election. His chairman had telegraphed to headquarters to that effect, and he believed that they had received in- structions to leave at once. He would not have the issue confused, and he was determined he would not oblige his opponents or his friends by departing from the attitude he had taken up. His opponents were annoyed that he was fighting this election on a cautious and prudent policy, which did not propose to put a single penny of tax on any kind of food whatever."
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