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From: "Jacqui Simkins" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Elections pre WW1
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:16:04 +0100
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Oh dear me! Well, I thank Guy for confirmation that the ditty was as
murderous as quoted!! What on earth would the reaction be to such from
today's candidates ??!!!!

Does anyone know if Craig and McLaren were the two candidates in the
Wheelock area for the "last election before the war"?

Again, thank you Guy!

Jacqui


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Lawton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CHS] Elections pre WW1


> Jacqui
>
> My mother, born 1902, recounted a similar ditty to me over 50 years ago.
> It was on the lines of:
>
> "Vote, vote, vote for [your candidates name]
> Who's that knocking at the door?
> If it's [opponent's name] and his wife
> We will kill them with a knife
> And they won't come knocking anymore"
>
> Gruesome!
>
>
> Jacqui Simkins <> writes
>>
>>Seeking some kind soul who can tell me if the following quotation from my
>>gt aunt's memoir is correct. She was a young girl living in Wheelock at
>>the time:
>>
>>While we were at Wheelock there was an election: it was the last one
>>before the war. The candidates were Mr Craig, he was Tory, and Mr
>>McLaren, he was Liberal: most of our villagers were Tory voters. The
>>local Tory committee had its headquarters at the Golden Lion. The village
>>kids would go around in gangs singing this ditty:
>>
>>
>>
>>Vote, vote, vote for Mr Craig,
>>
>>He’ll win the day;
>>
>>McLaren and his wife,
>>
>>We’ll kill them with a knife,
>>
>>And they’ll never go a voting anymore.
>>
>>
>>Particularly keen to determine if the names of the candidates are correct,
>>and if not, who they really were. And whether the ditty really was quite
>>so murderous!
>>
>>With thanks in anticipation,
>>
>>Jacqui
>>
>
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