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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, September 13th, 1906 }<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tStrange Speculations
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\n\tThe Statesman<\/i>, not content with lecturing the Bengali leaders, opens its news columns to curious speculations about the President of the next Congress. It is apparently not quite satisfied with Mr. Naoroji,\u2014 a natural sentiment, since, whatever the
\nmoderates profess, Mr. Naoroji is not one of them, though he may not go the whole way with the advanced school. Accordingly, the name of Nawab Sayyed Mohammed is thrust forward,\u2014 because he is a Mahomedan. The idea that the election of
\na Mahomedan President will conciliate the anti-Congress Mahomedans, is a futility which has been repeatedly exposed by experience. Mr. Rasul’s presidentship at Barisal has not conciliated the following of the Nawab of Dacca; such nominations can only
\ngratify those Mahomedans who are already for the Congress. The question this year for the Congress is, Swadeshi or no
\nSwadeshi, Boycott or no Boycott, and no minor considerations can be admitted. A still more extraordinary piece of information
\nis that Punjab will put up Lala Lajpat Rai against Mr. Tilak! We know, on the contrary, that Punjab is for Mr. Tilak and that
\nLala Lajpat Rai is the last man to countenance opposition to Mr. Tilak. In itself the candidature of Lala Lajpat Rai would not
\nbe unwelcome to the new party. He is one of those men who act, more than they talk, a man with a splendid record of solid
\npatriotic work behind him and to him above all other belongs the credit of building up the Arya Samaj into the most powerful
\nand practically effective organisation in the country. Were both Mr. Tilak and Mr. Naoroji to decline the Presidentship, Lala
\nLajpat Rai’s would be the only other possible candidature.   
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\n\tThe Statesman <\/i>under Inspiration
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\n\tAn obviously inspired article appears in the Statesman <\/i>in which a gallant attempt is made to misrepresent the issues before the
\ncountry. It tries to convey the idea that the “extremists” have set up Mr. Tilak in opposition to Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji. As everybody is aware, it was not until Mr. Tilak’s name was already put prominently before the country that the “moderate section”,
\nseeing no other way of avoiding the issue, bethought themselves of Mr. Naoroji. On the issue of representation or no representation our contemporary affects to be in doubt as to the position of the new party, and it discovers that the Bengali people are
\nno longer unanimous against the Partition. How then can Mr. Morley reconsider the question? Need we inform the
\nStatesman<\/i>
\nthat the Bengali people are as unanimous against the Partition as they ever were and always will be? We do not doubt Mr.
\nMorley’s ability to find excuses for evading a concession which he has never meant to yield, unless his hand is forced. But the
\nmovement for a new representation is not only a contravention of the understanding which had existed among all parties since
\nthe last Town Hall meeting, but it was hatched in secret and engineered in secret. The country was not taken into confidence
\nas to the motives or justification for this important departure. Had the old leaders acted straightforwardly in the matter and
\nshown overwhelmingly strong reasons for the step, the leaders of the new party, although opposed on principle to the submission of new prayers and entreaties, might not have refused to countenance a strong and dignified representation which did not
\nsacrifice in any degree the policy of Swadeshi and Boycott. Since they would not adopt this straightforward course, it is fair to
\nconclude that the case for a new representation was too weak to be publicly presented. We have therefore every right to appeal to
\nthe country to maintain the policy hitherto successful. Tighten the grip of the Boycott, let both parties unite to give a new impetus to the Swadeshi; paralyse the two-headed administration of Bengal by every legitimate means of passive resistance\u2014 and
\nthe Partition will inevitably be rescinded or modified.    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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