THE CUMULATE VOTE.
(TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR:)
SIE,—Will you allow me to say that when speaking of the cumulative vote, I had not the slightest intention of alluding to Mr. Hare's proposed method of voting, which, if I understand it aright, would act in a manner wholly opposite to that which I condemn in the cumulative vote, as at present exercised, or capable of being exercised ? My contention was that 1,000 persons in Manchester have no claim to be represented to the exclusion of others, and that a power of cumulation which enabled them to carry a candidate is an abuse of the very principle of the cumulative vote itself, which principle, I take it, is that minorities of sufficient strength should be able to find representation.—I am, Sir, &c., Wirkswerth. CHARLES H. COLLINS.
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