THE WAIKOUAITI ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 2898, 3 June 1872, Page 2

THE WAIKOUAITI ELECTION.

To the Editor.

Sir,—ln view of this hoped-for event, please grant me space for a few remarks. There are, I think, three kinds of men who ought not to be elected as a representative of any district, and they are—First, an habitual drunkard ; second, one who seeks only his own personal benefit; and, third, one who has conceived a violent hatred to a party, irrespective of policy or principle —one who would enter the House with a pre-determination to oppose all measures brought forward by them, whether for the good of the country or otherwise. The first would leave the interests of his district to any other member who might be good enough to attend to it, and he would only enter the House when led in by some whip to vote at a division about which he knows nothing. So much for number one. The first, if elected, would make a show of joining a party, and finding they would neither bribe nor give him a billet, he would crawl over to their opponents, betray the secrets of the old to tbs new friend, and after disgusting the whole House become their tool, do their dirty work, and sell the interests of his constituents, and for what ? a few hundred pounds or a public procuratorship. But the third may be a man of some talent, and probably has been successful in some things, such as acquiring property. He is in all likelihood an oldfashioned or reckless politician who went to sleep, but was awakened by a noise from Otago—an offence his aristocratic mind could never forgive the plebeian South, the having been obliged to leave his bed that it might be aix-ed, and no sooner returned and got the sheets nicely warmed, than he had to leave it, on account of which he conceived an amount of hatred to the party of progress that would lead him to oppose them by all means in his power, whether right or wrong. Would such a man be a proper person to represent an Otago constituenc} 7 ? Would he not, by factious opposition, incite it to himself ? and if the present Government were to propose anything for the good of Otago, would ho not oppose them, seeing that his interest are so wide apart from hers—his being in the North —in fact, diametrically opposed to her ? Ido not think there is any danger of such a man being elected; but some men are mad enough to propose his election for one of the largest and most important agricultural and mining districts is this Province—namely, Waikouaiti. I think that I need say little more than that the third would be worse than the two first; and as I believe that they exist, we have only to elect Sir David Monro for Waikouaiti to complete the number. Let the electors look to it. \ ours, &c., William Imbrie, An elector for Waikouaiti. May 31, 1872.