I wrote letters to various editors, took a cab, and left a copy of the address myself, before ten o'clock, at the offices of all the chief newspapers published on Monday morning. The editor of the _Daily News_ and one or two others I saw personally. All printed the address as news, free of expense. Next morning the Liberal electors were amazed to see their candidate "first in the field" before any other had time to appear. All the while I knew Mr. Hughes would vote against three things which I valued, and in favour of which I had written and spoken. He would vote against the ballot, against opening picture galleries and museums on Sunday, and against the separation of the Church from the State. But on the whole he was calculated to promote the interests of the country, and therefore I did what I could to promote his election. I wrote for the election two or three bills. The following is one:-- HUGHES FOR LAMBETH. Vote for "Tom Brown." Vote for a Gentleman who is a friend of the People. Vote for a Churchman who will do justice to Dissenters. Vote for a tried Politician who will support just measures and can give sensible reasons for them. Vote for a distinguished writer and raise the character of metropolitan constituencies. Vote for a candidate who can defend your cause in the Press as well as in Parliament Vote for a man known to be honest and who has long worked for the industrious classes. Electors of Lambeth, Vote for Thomas Hughes. Mr. Hughes would have had no address out but for me. Had he spent £100 in advertisements a day or two later he could not have purchased the advantage this promptitude gave him. I worked very hard all that Sunday, a son and daughter helping--but our souls did not count Two weeks went by--during which I ceaselessly promulgated his candidature--and I heard nothing from the candidate. As I had paid the emergency expenses of the Sunday copyists, found them refreshments while they wrote, and paid for the cab on its round to the offices, I found myself £2 "out of pocket," as lawyers put it, and I sent a note to Mr. Hughes to say that amount would cover costs incurred. He replied in a curt note saying I should "find a cheque for £2 within"--giving me the impression that he regarded it as an extortion, which he thought it better to submit to than resent. He never thanked me, then or at any time, for what I did. Never in all his life did he refer to the service I had rendered him.