The Evening Post. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 61, 20 April 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1865.

With scarcely any exceptions the candidates who have put forward addresses for the City profess to belong to the "no party" school. Nothing is at first sight more taking than this style of candidature; almost everybody says at once 11 That's exactly what I like in a candidate. I like to have a man who will vote for every measure just according to its merits." But when you come to examine J a little below the surface, it will be found that almost every independent candidate has a leaning to some side or other. Of the fifteen candidates who have put forward addresses, no one could for a moment doubt that Messrs. Borlase, Bull, Dransfield, Hickson, and Wallace would show their independency by voting in opposition^ and probably there are only some two or three who would actually sit on what we may metaphorically call the cross-benches, occasionally dividing on one side and occa- i sionally on the other. Now, it very much depends on the antecedents of candidates as to the amount of confidence which ought to be placed in them. No more practical and thoroughly sensible speeches have been made in the last few sessions than those of Mr. Hunter. He has brought to bear on the questions that came before the Council a calm and sound judgment, and while Messrs. Borlase and Bunny were never tired of prophesying the bankruptcy and ruin of the Province, Mr. Hunter was invariably found taking the most cheering view of the prospects before up. With him has been invariably associated Mr. Stokes. To our mind this , association is not the least of Mr. Stokes 1 claims for reelection. It is honorable to any man to have been associated with Mr. Hunter in his attempts to promote the welfare of this Province, but if any other claim were wanting to recommend Mr. Stokes to tie favorable consideration of the electors, _it is to be found in his attention to his duties as our representative in the Upper House of the General Assembly, where his influence and vote have on more than one occasion told powerfully in favor of this Province at her moment of need. If we revert to the Seat of Government and Panama questions again, in which Mr. Stokes' vote! were of great service, it is because

they are of such practical and immediate benefit to the progress of this City that we consider it would be a lasting disgrace if any of the candidates, who in the Assttnbly helped forward either of those questions, should be discarded on this the first occasion in which the citizens have the opportunity of ' expressing their thanks. Dr. Featherston has already been thus thanked, and on Monday and Tuesday opportunity will be afforded for thnukng Messrs. Fitzherberr, Stokes, ' aylor, and Rhodes for the help they have given in the Assembly towards either or both of those great questions, — questions so important to the well-being of this City, that all minor points of difference sink into utter nothingness. Messrs. Crawford, Martin, Pearce, and Plimmer are a!so candidates on whose antecedents we think the electors may safely rely. They are all colon. sts in every sense of the word, an-l are removed by their well-to-do position from seeking for seats in the Council merely for the sake of obtaining either loaves or fishes. Mr. George Allen seeks for re-election, and if the closest attention to his duties, and short, plain, brusque speeches are recommendations for that honor, they are all to be found in that gentleman. Mr. Pharazyn is the only candidate before the public that we have not yet mentioned. Grown up amongst us from childhoood, with the advantages of a liberal education in Europe such as few of our Colonial youths have Been able to obtain, of independent means, gentlemanly habits, and much leisure, he is particularly qualified to take part in the councils of the Province, and will no doubt reflect credit on the electors who place him there. The one reason that should guide the electors lies, however, in a nut shell. Having elected Dr. Featherston, the duty of the electors is to give him a Council that will work with him, or at least offer no factious'opposition to the new Executive he will have to appoint 'immediately on bis return. Fjive gentlemen are in opposition. If they do not go in avowedly as such, yet no one can be so blind as to suppose that any of them — that either Messrs. Borlase, Bull, Dransfield, Hickson, or Wallacewill support Dr. Featherston in any shape. They are the "opposition," and it would be dbing them an injustice to suppose they would desert their colors. If then the electors want progress, they will not support the opposition, but if they want a "dead-lock" with its stagnation and similar attendant evils, then they will certainly bring it about by sending to the Council men whose object is to obstruct the Superintendent in every possibly way.