Mr. Snooker
Globe, Saturday 30 May 1891
Another feature, specially recommended by our proprietor, was a column entitled “The Political Rostrum.” Under this heading, we announced, we intended to insert communications from both parties, containing comments on public affairs by representative local men. The first day we led off with a letter from Mr. Hydroceph (whom I always suspected of having written in collusion with Mr. Inksell) announcing that he meant to stand at the next general election as a labour candidate in each of the divisions of Muggleton. The Rostrum was vacant after this for a week, and then a Board school teacher gave us two columns entitled, “My Political Faith,” which seemed to be based upon a course of University extension lectures on Swedenborg and Confucius. Then we interviewed Mr. Snooker upon his expulsion from the Junior Conservative Club, and since that we have devoted the Rostrum to reports of libel actions against us.