Letter to the editor prompted by a commentary in the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, no. 76, March 17, 1889. The commentary had remarked on the fact that a recent meeting of the Anti-Revolutionary Electoral Association (held in Dordrecht on March 15 and attended by 800 persons) had been closed. The paper asked why this meeting had not been open to the public as other meetings of the Anti-Revolutionary Party typically were. In this letter Kuyper replies that meetings of the Anti-Revolutionary Party at all levels are generally closed. He notes, however, that the electoral associations frequently hold public meetings during electoral contests, a practice that would certainly take place again in Dordrecht.