REQUISITIONS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 256, 22 March 1867, Page 3

REQUISITIONS.

(TO THE EDITOF. OF THE DUNSTAN TIMES.) Sir,—lt is the custom now-a-days when an election is about to take place, for a friend of some intended candidate to take round to the Electors a requisition, which in most instances is readily signed without reflection. In a day or two, other candidates appear in the field, and the majority of the electors then discovev they have unknowingly pledged their vote and interest, and deprived themselves of choosing another representative—having either to vote for the fust man ia the field or break their plcdga Mr Editor, it seems to mo very like casting pearls before swine, to give us the great privilege of electing our own law-makers, when we, without thought, sign away our vote to the first person that aaks us for it. Let every one resolve, that in the future, ho will sign no requisition unless it be merely for the purpose of asking an explanation of political views ; then, after we have heard each candidate we can vote for the man we deem best suited to represent us. I am, Sir, AN ELECTOR.