One of “The Small Ratepayers” has selected another list of new, and altogether untried men. You do not want to turn out indiscriminately all the members of the old Board. You only want to get rid of the obnoxious and incompetent ones!
Shew your Independence, your Discretion, and your good Common-Sense, by Rejecting that List, and Vote only for
- Richard Smith, Agent,
- Edward F. Smith, Agent,
- Isaac Badger, Coal Master,
- Joseph G. Walker, Merchant,
- Elliott Hollier, Chemist,
- Thomas Griffiths, Gentleman,
- Edward Grainger, Draper,
- George Burn Lowe, Solicitor,
- William Harrison, Draper,
- William Wigginton, Architect.
Please to remember that Ten Names only can be selected. Write your Initials on the Voting Paper opposite the Ten here enumerated, and see at the next election if you have not reason to feel obliged to
DISCRIMINATOR.
Dudley, April 5th, 1858.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF DUDLEY.
Gentlemen,
I have received several communications to the effect that a Mr. Locock is, or has been, by himself and his agents, canvassing you with a view to displace me in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. Now I beg to say that, if this be true, the circumstance of a man soliciting your suffrages behind my back, without any notice to me or my supporters, without publishing any address to the Electors, or in a word, without adopting any of the usual proceedings of fair play, is a sufficient indication of your would-be representative. On first hearing this intelligence, I gave no attention whatever to the circumstance, feeling convinced that men who know so well how to stand up like Englishmen in a fair political fight, were not likely to listen to the whisperings of a person who thus stealthily presented himself to their notice.