Show BIUT1S1I ELOQIJtENOE A Capital Specimen of the Speeches Made in Locnl Election i The following manifesto copied ver j haUnt from the original poster is a j capital specimen of election eloquence as appCied to parochial contests Fellow Fel-low workingmen gentlemen and ladies I honoianly put myself forward under your very kind notice Cor a seat otif the Swanscombe parish council Let me tell you as a man that I was the first to give cheap meat on Galley hall and Swanscombe and all round I never did and never wIM hurt a workingman work-ingman When times is good I want to get paid for my very superior food that I always supply and when times is hard there you can cake it at any price you like to feed your wives and children and your families front George Clinch The Peoples only Butcher in this parish I shall work hand in hand with the Rev George Hale to bury the dead at the lowest price and put the poor body deep in mother earth where they ought to and I that I shall sell i be promise my meat at the same price I shall also I help Mr Dunbar for he is an old Toff j to reduce the salaries o > T clergymen as it do cost too much for prayers and we i can go up to glory at a less price I J also promise to do more than the last council for they done nothing and as Mickey Finn is not standing but sitting sit-ting down low we can do good business < j Mid have no Donnybrook fair at our meetingsin fact gentlemen and ladies la-dies I shall do every mortal thing for the good of your body and the parson will take care of your departed souls I shall reduce the rates and get rent for the wrkingmen > cheaper I shall light up ycur roads so that you cam see them upon a dark moonlight nigh The last word I say unto you is do your duty to yourselves and never mind about me but put me on the council for your own sake and the Interest f In-terest of the men who get bread by the t sweat of their brow Household Words |