The Liberal Registration Committee of the City are trying for
all four seats, and have organized a somewhat elaborate machinery.
Each ward, in the first place, is to talte care of itself, the policy of the managers being to keep the votes steadily on a level. To secure this end, a "reserve" has been organized of electors who hold their votes at the disposal of the Committee, and deficiencies will be filled up from this. Any unpledged voter who wants advice is to vote for the candidates lowest on the poll. The arrangement is clever, but it substitutes party for individual pre- ferencs much too completely, and if successful will probably put an cud to this plan of representing the minority, which seems to tax the arithmetical powers of English burgesses a little too severely. They give themselves up in despair to the committees, which is not at all what was intended.
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