THE COMING ELECTION AND FREE ELECTORS.

Evening Star, Issue 3556, 16 July 1874, Page 2

THE COMING ELECTION AND FREE ELECTORS.

x o me jmuor. SlR f —Tn accordance with others who subscribe their ©pinionß on election matters, 1 request a little space for mine, and more especially since national prejudices have been called into existence by unthinking persons calculated to injure the cause they wis'i to serve. Two candidates are soliciting the honor of representing the wealth, dignity, hospitality, and general interests of the City both promising to discharge the importaui duties required of them with credit and impartiality, yet, strange to say, one candidate seeks support on partial grounds. lam also well aware that the working classes are invariably called upon to support candidates who at ordinary times neither know nor care how they live, and also receive nods and smiles from such men during election times who fail to recognise them afterwards. As one of the unwashed toilers of the human family, and connected with them by sympathy and industry, I warn such candidates of the folly and imprudence of such a course. The working classes of this community, together with free and independent thinkers, are not gained either with the smiles, nods, or proraises of such men. The man to be Mayor at this election must be a gentleman in manner, and cosmopolitan in views and actions ; and if elected by a portiou of the votes of the working classes, he must be as studious in the conservation of their rights and interests and as approachable to them as he is to any other section of the community. Free thinking .Scotchmen are the last in the world to believe in the intallibility of any man, and much leas so because he happens to be born by chance in any particular country. Any man, in a v\qw country, appealing to party feelings ;,ad prejudices, who tries to secure favor on national grounds when defi cient of social merit, must expect to be consigned to oblivion until he falls into the rippling stream, and is borne over the boulders of prejudice to the mighty and irresistible torrent of humanity.—l am, &c, Blunderer. Dunedin, July 16.