CLYDE ELOQUENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 222, 27 July 1866, Page 2

CLYDE ELOQUENCE.

TO THE EDITOR QF THE DUNSTAN TIMES. Fir, —Fourteen candidates wore duly nominated for municipal honours on Thursday last, and upon being invited by the Returnin-Officer to address the electois, none possessed sufficient moral courage to uttera single word. A sailor at Plymouth some time past sold a g rgeously plumed parrot to an old gentleman for the sum of £l, and represented him to bo a most fluent talker. The gen'leman took his purchase home, and after giving the bird some two or three days trial it was Lund that the human lingo was utterly foreign to its tongue. Finding himself duped by the son of Neptune, ho took the bird back to the vendor, and rated him in language not meet for ears p dite upon his deception as to the loquacity of the feathery screamer The crafty she back naively replied “well, p rhnps he does not ‘ talk’ much, but he is a rare-un to ‘ think.’ ” I hope that our councillors will not in one s use bo of the -ame stamp as the parrot; for although “ thinking” much is very deArubic, yet a little sen-ible “ talk” is at all timo< expected from men aspiring to public positions. It is true that there is more eloquence in “silence” than in an indicrecYspceeh.; hot our would-lio councillor* are not alraid of their own Indiscretion to such an extent, a?. - to make them remain ultc.h mole at a public municipal mcetim' A man's mouth is a mint establishment in which the tongue coins thoughts to make I hem current amongst others, and onr candidates were in duty bound to coin their thoughts in woids so as to give the electors mi opportunity of judging as to whether they were golden ores or an amalgam if worthies ingredients. Yours, &c., DREADNOUGHT,