THE EAST WILTS ELECTION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THZ "EIP2CTLTOR."] SIH,—In the Spectator of July 23rd, you say of Mr. Long's defeat by Mr. Hobhouse, that it was, as you believe, "princi- pally due to the distribution of cards on which the Tory loaf was pictured as a very small loaf at a very high price, while the Liberal loaf was pictured as a very big loaf at a very low price." For this statement there is, I believe, absolutely no foundation whatever, and I wish to give it an unqualified denial.
What does the Spectator think of the following, from one of the posters issued by Mr. Long's agents ?—
"CHEAP LOAF! WHO HAS GIVEN IT YOU? THE UNIONIST GOVERNMENT, OF WHICH MR. LONG IS A MEMBER. WHEN WAS BREAD 80 CHEAP AS NOW ? VOTE FOR LONG!"
Chairman of the East Wilts Liberal Association. Marlborough, July 27th.
[The pictured loaves were certainly distributed in the Buck- rose Division of Yorkshire, for we have one of the cards in our possession, and we understand that statements conveying the same meaning were freely disseminated in East Wilts. We have nothing to say in favour of the bills printed on behalf of Mr. Long, which appear to us equally misleading. We fear that electoral agitation sanctions all kinds of political misstatement so long as it appears likely to promote the candidate's success.—En. Spectator
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