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Election Notes. A week's frost was brought to an end on Wednesday by the election. The election- eering heat produced a thaw. Ml-— The election was fought by the Church Party with unexampled vigour. The ecclesiastic managers assured the electors that the Liberal candidates were intent on the closing of the Board Schools, and the Church canddates sought election on the very same ground that the Liberals sought it in 1902-to save the Board Schools! --1111-- The process by which they arrived at this result was very peculiar. They pointed out that Mr Lloyd George had advocated some such plan; and they triumphantly pointed to the fact that the Liberal municipal candi- dates had expressed any opinion on the subject. This is too ingenious. Lord Salis- bury told the Bishops to capture the Board Schools; and the local Church candidates ex- pressed no opinion on that subject, so if we follow their own argument, they wish to cap- ture the Board Schools for the Church! till The authority who drafted the electioneer- ing literature of the Church candidates has very peculiar ideas. He thinks that it is fair to charge people with anything they have not denied or have not proved that they had no hand in. A little reflection would convince him that it is his duty to prove his case. People who make charges have to prove them; the people accused are not called upon to disprove them. illl (I II All kinds of vehicles from motor-cars to donkey-carts were used to convey voters to the poll. The result of the election on Wednesday was as follows. Western Ward. Mr James Davies (Church) 406 Mr Rees Davies (Lib.) 395 Mr James Davies elected by a majority of 11. Eastern Ward. Mr George Morgan (L.) 493 Mr W. Isaac (L.) 459 Mr J. B. Arthur (C.) 401 Mr W. Spurrell (C.) 396 Messrs Morgan and Isaac are elected. —mi— f Alderman Trphai-n& V.AS thrift returning officer for the Eastern Ward; and Alderman Samuel for the Western Ward. HI1-- T, The East has returned two Liberals by thumping majorities; and the West has allowed the Tory to get in by the skin of the teeth. —n— Canon Camber Williams in the course of some personal remarks last week compared a well-known Liberal to a "coracle without a paddle." These ecclesiastical guns appear to make a good deal of noise and smoke; but their shots appear to do little harm to their opponents. Their aim is rather defective. —Ilii—r J The calmer Church people do not seem to be very proud of that orgie of personal abuse which passed for a public meeting the other night. It is an extraordinary thing that the party which one day attacks its opponents with such violence should have the audacity on another day to assume a pious air and to deprecate the saying of nasty things by Liberals. --lIlt- The Clericals claim the right to dictate to us how we shall fight; and at the same time they claim the right to have their full tiing at us. It is a very convenient arrangement; but somehow or other, Liberals think it a bit one-sided. 11 n In Mr George Morgan and Mr W. Isaac, tho Town Council has received the addition of two sound business men who will prove a valuable acquisition. They are both the heads of important businesses, and are just the men we want to manage the affairs of the town. —Ml— 1, The Town Council now oonsi&ts ot 14 Liberals and 10 Conservatives. 1111 --1111-- During the contest, the utmost good feel- ing was exhibited between the candidates on either side. Whatever ill-feeling is generated in these contests is produced by noisy babblers who love ill-feeling for its own sake. —Illl + f The Nonconformists are now masters or the situation educationally. They are not dependent now 011 whatever the Church will be kind enough to allow them. We have won; but it is in spite of the most frantic efforts of the clerics and clericals. i

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