The candidate＇s written programme should not be too categorical, since later on his adversaries might bring it up against him; in his verbal programme,however, there cannot be too much exaggeration. The most important reforms may be fearlessly promised.At the moment they are made these exaggerations produce a great effect, and they are not binding for the future, it being a matter of constant observation that the elector never troubles himself to know how far the candidate he has returned has followed out the electoral programme he applauded, and in virtue of which the election was supposed to have been secured.