The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published very Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, June 16, 1891. NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 621, 16 June 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published very Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, June 16, 1891. NOTES.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou ftim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.;

The cablegram stating that Sir Charles had decided to become a candidate for the Forest of Dean seat gives a forecaste of a contest that should be interesting to watch in the light of the recent Parnell affair. Mr Stead, who declares the candidature an outrage on public morals, had so far been powerful enough to keep Dilke in the background, and now it remains to be seen what will be the outcome of the struggle for the Forest of Dean seat. The following petition has been sent round, and been signed by many leading men of all denominations : —“ We, the undersigned, have read with indignation the statement made that Sir Charles Dilke contemplates re entering public life by standing as a candidate for the Forest of Dean, before having taken any practical steps to fulfil his pledge to clear his character, which he said he hoped to vindicate completely by the law. Without expressing any opinion as to the merits of the case in the abstract, [we may point out that if Sir Charles Dilke were to re-enter public life while the public verdict recorded, after a public trial by judge and jury, had not been publicly and conclusively demonstrated to be mistaken, the public conscience would be greatly outraged. A disastrous blow would, in that case, be struck at the growing sentiment which demands that when anyone is branded by judicial decision as guilty of aggravated adulteries, and, by implication, of perjury and subornation of perjury, he shall disappear from public life equally with those who steal spoons or cheat at cards. This, which would be the case at any time, is peculiarly so just now, when Mr Parnell has been deposed from the Irish leadership for an offence not more heinous than those of which Sir Charles Dilke was found guilty.”