LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE GLAMORGANSHIELE ELECTION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Perhaps you may doubt the correctness of your inference from the Gower election in Glamorganshire, when I tell you that I, a Home-ruler to the backbone, should not only, if I had a vote, have abstained from voting for Mr. Randall, but should have given my vote to his opponent. There is a tendency just now among a certain portion of the working classes, chiefly among the miners, to fight for their own hand, independent of party considerations. The Gower miners, who had or might have had a fair representation on the Liberal Association, chose to reject the candidate of the Association, and started one of their own. This I consider so unfair, that I should have gone the length of preferring even an extreme Tory to the candidate of the rebel section of the Liberals of Gower; and I should do the same in Mid-Lanarkshire. The miners must be taught that they cannot do without the Liberal Party. I regret, therefore, that there was not a larger revolt against Mr. Randall; and I do so chiefly for Home-rule reasons. A few Home-rulers more or less do not matter in this Parliament. What Home-rulers must wish is that their party shall be so disciplined at the General Election that they will present a united front to their opponents ; and nothing would help this so much as a few sharp lessons in the interval to men like Mr. Randall and his supporters.
You will see, therefore, that an inference the opposite to yours may be drawn from the Gower election.—I am, Sir, &c.,
HOME-RULER.
[We understand that our correspondent's view of the Gower election is not exactly our own, but how it can be represented as "opposite" to our own, we entirely fail to see.—En. Spectator.]
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