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Our voters can't forget the maxim famous
'Semel electum semper eligamus;'
They never can be worked into a ferment
By visionary promise of preferment,
Nor taught, by hints of 'Paradise[1]' beguiled,
To whisper 'C for Chairman' like a child[2]!
And thus the friends that we have tempted down
Oft take the two-o'clock Express for town[3].
This is our danger: this the secret foe
That aims at Oxford such a deadly blow.
What champion can we find to save the State,
To crush the plot? We darkly whisper 'Wait[4]!'
- ↑ 'Not to mention that, as we cannot promise Paradise to our supporters, they are very apt to take the train for London just before the election.'
- ↑ It is not known to what the word 'Paradise' was intended to allude, and therefore the hint, here thrown out, that the writer meant to recall the case of the late Chairman of Mr. Gathorne Hardy's committee, who had been recently collated to the See of Chester, is wholly wanton and gratuitous.
- ↑ A case of this kind had actually occurred on the occasion of the division just alluded to.
- ↑ Mr. Wayte, now President of Trinity, then put forward as the Liberal candidate for election to Council.
were charged with having obtained their victory by a conspiracy.
