When the air is ch-red with th heat and dust of political battle, acensations of unfairness, of chicanery and disreputable expedients, are lightly made, But in political war fa in actual, grim, martial war, a wide latitude has to' be allowed. Consequently too mach heed need not be given to the Unionist outery against the Liberal Goveroment's action in altering the date for issuing of the write; a Unionist Government, in soted similarly. The change of date cannot be condemned harshly, therefore, on mo ud it doubtful lower basis of mich involved and some fi loss, a8 retarniog officers in many cases had completed their arrangements, made last Satarday practicable polling day. The Liberals consider Satarday " fortunate day for them, because it is " half-holiday and a very bassy day for the smaller shop-keopars. It wax hoped, of course, that the Liberals would achieve great success on Satarday and that this would inflaence the minds of those voters who prefer floating with the tide to attempting totem it. The hope was rodely enough dissipated 'The Liberals on Saturday left many politically slain on the field of batt hat, however, is not the point. The adoption of an' expedient which might be regarded as the resource of despair 0 ingpiritiog effect expose him to the charge of using government machinery for purely party parpores.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.