HOW POLITICAL EXCITEMENT IS MANUFACTURED.

Evening Star, Issue 4256, 17 October 1876, Page 3

HOW POLITICAL EXCITEMENT IS MANUFACTURED.

The < dent, writing under the above heading, says | " As an instance £ will quote a report in the ; 'Otago Guardian' of the sth of this month, ,and which subsequently appeared in its I - th'ei' and, I dare say, also in the * Southern Mercury.' The report is headed "Political Sympathy and Support," and purports to give the speeches that took place at a depujt#k»ito *he ouadjfy. The 'Guard&»' had no membjr jof its regular reporting staff there to {represent it. The., report, which came ■ from the gifted "pen and vivid imagination of Mr M'lndoe, is more than double as long as a verbatim report j ht; dottier aEwspaper;,.;ofr tt&ftu acftmily reporter who took down the words m 'full as the %eaTce'rs ,J «p%%uld ao*iige*ri>p;a(irej)oi*; etea. half aailqngi&i that by the artist who, with a sublime diaregard of what was said, relied upon his imagination. What waa said at the deputation was of a very mild'description, the deputation merely informing his Honor that they were a committee appointed at a meeting held %tfj\)t;l6tory;:l*aif(they supported * .£i9£W¥Ps9 n > an 4 i requested .the. Provincial 'Council;' if' possible', to * be' convened. But this talented amateur reporter, not contented to.stajfsiji sie ; dnlL region of facts, must soar into .the realms of fancy and ini ortKtfMe'oT^em)*wertf^eVertlttei'e<i. ) In this cgrtegwycpmer^e,.followingrflowers of oratory:— 5j * The I'-ction of the. House, of Bepresentatives toward* Otag*.w&/diaeidateflfto destroy! oil confidence in the integrity of. the General Government. Should Ihq fflraMcnUakof th&rigbip.of-the Province heielieveaVwere prepored to make any sacrifice sooner than submit to be robbed of their privileges by an unholy political combina.Hon.

| The JJayor of Sotlth Dunedin (the gentle-! ;man whc< is credited with the words I have ■ [quoted), who simply asked that the Provin- i joiavlCqruxeJihe is, akp: represented |.as saying-r- _ > fwnith.ir 1 the' Council le^'ihe'people' were ready ,1 tofolltfw* .-IJuriag a loito'sresideuoeii ■ re had ntever observed a more united feeling dis-' : played ia ieomiectien with•■.•«, political iThe : ! m J?ro.^ e Jloffects of Abolition, were considered, the ' InVoWemßlttered waaJpSffiiiS-opihten «Bthe Unjust j attempt made by a_,. majority in 4he House of Eejpresentativeste withdraw from the ttnab'itants'df the Pro vi'jiceß the control and management of their , } own reviuiues. So frequently had the specious proimises off the legislature been broken that faith j j opuld !*• longer be placed in the pledges of the i Government, and it was felt that to abandon Pro- i jvincial government was to sacrifice the public; wealth of Otago on the shrine of the white elephant irtrnfrg+W* <nr fs ,f ;-,- ■:•■■• -.*■•• ; ! Aow, it happens the Mayor did not" say a' single word of tHfl;-" or' anything like it. I di^ ; | not my a single word at ,the deputation, are • teach «rediteolwitM : a" filtfe'-speech, in which! the :forMer/i»'niade to Jtefei to the' I ';strß.ggle," and to the " destruc- \ Ition «of the Then his Honor |is scarf &rwn' as j hlivihg u'gierea a : 'mass of j verbiage which he ;«eyer used, and which ! anvanfi who would! knoSi vr te never used; The * Guardian' knd : j the ■ other papers to Which it retails its type! | are } hav»j been simply of a scribbling,: ""JiM* does; | nob stick at trifles such as truth in order to I get a report into print that will have a tel-! | ling look about it. Let it be hoped that this, | slight export will prevent the recurrence of " | sim ilar things for some time to come. Poli-j [ tica .1 sympathy and support—it is so with a ITWsWWOSOM<jy:.j '<'-Ti«»/ ; ..-'■' %. t i