must be prepared to pay it. I trust you will excuse my being
candid with you, both for your own sake and the Party's. If
£200 or £300 more or less is any object to you, and if you
(_or your friends_) are not prepared to do certain things,
such as bringing up voters, &c., it is useless your hoping
to win. I don't suggest bribery and corruption, but certain
things not immoral, though perhaps illegal, must be done. That
is why I once suggested to you that someone from here should
have an interview with some friend who might represent you.
You did not respond to this. You do not appear willing to be
guided by your Committee even in the expenditure of £15 for
chairs and tables for your new Committee-room; and I must
repeat that such excessive caution will not be followed by
success. You will only waste your time, and the Party here
will be defeated. If you do not feel willing to be guided by
the old Leaders of the Party here, who know what is needed,
far better reconsider your position, and resign while there
is yet time.

Now, in addition to your _legal election expenses_ (between
£500 and £600), there will be the Registration which, however,
is a permissible payment. But, above all, railway fares,
conveyances, and sundry other expenses which are forbidden by
the Act, must be met by your friends, or success is hopeless.
Young HARRISON is standing at Chursfield. His father intends
him to win, and he will see to the needful!! That is the way
to work it, and to win. You must be prepared to pay at least
£150 (or to get someone to pay it for you) _for sundries_.
Even thus your expenditure will not reach £1000; dirt cheap
for a safe borough. Formerly a borough contest used to mean