TURNCOATS.

Evening Star, Issue 3211, 5 June 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)

TURNCOATS.

To the Editor.

Sib, —lt has never been my lot to Avitneas a more humiliating spectacle than that which Mr Joseph Mackay, proprietor of the Bruce Herald, afforded the electors of the Province to-day at the nomination for the Superintendency.

About six years ago, who was it that worked so hard for Mr Macandrew? Why, Mr Joseph Mackay. About six years ago, who was treasurer to Mr Macandrew’s Committee? No other than Mr Joseph Mackay. About six years ago, who got nearly all the printing to d© for Mr Macandrew’s Committee ? You may scarcely believe it, hut it was for all that Mr Joseph Mackay. I ook on that picture, and now look on this, and I think your readers will agree with me in saying that Mr Joseph Mackay has acted up to the following quotation Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in UUs. Who was it that put such paltry mean questions to the Superintendent to-dav? No other than our old friend Mr Joseph Mackay. Who was it that was so excited, and made such frantic gestures to the Superintendent, because his questions were answered to the satisfaction of everybody but himself ? Is it not pitiable that Mr Mackay should have so far forgot common propriety that he should persist in raving about things that had no earthly connection with the point at issue, even after the crowd most unmistakeably showed that they did not want to hear him speak ?

I was ou Mr Macandrew’s Committee about six years ago, and knew all the little manoeuvres of Mr Joseph Mackay. He was cringing enough, goodness knows, to Mr Macandrew then, and there was not a word said about the printing ou that occasion. Now the scene is different, and Mr Mackay looks through the glass with a selfish eye, and hence his diatribe of abuse on Mr Macandrew’s head. 0 wad some pow’r the giftie gie us To see ourselves as ithers see us ; It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad leave us, And e’en devotion. I am, &c., Alpha. Dunedin, June 4.