The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, NOV. 27, 1888. To-Morrow

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 64, 27 November 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, NOV. 27, 1888. To-Morrow

We do not think we are far wrong when we express the belief aud opinion that those burgesses who are goiug to thw poll to-morrow to vote, have pretty well made up their minds on the subject. Therefore, we will not now attempt to bias, or even proselytize, for ihe very excellent reason that we do not think it would have the slightest effect either one way or the other. It was not our intention to have added to what we have already written rela tive to the election, but a letter, which appears in our correspondence column over the signature of " Feilding," deserves more than a mere passing notice. The writer makes a general and sweeping accusation to the effect that " a paltry attempt is being made to bluff or intimidate some of the ratepayers from going to the polling office unless their rates are paid up to tbe date of voting." He does not say who are the " paltry parties," or to which side they belong, so we cannot warn our readers as to which is the Scylla, or which is the Charybdis that threatens wreck to the unfortunate ratepayers, who are thus left to take tbeir choice of the two evils : if it is fair to allow such a term to be applied even by implication to the two estimable gentlemen who are candidates for the suffrages of the electors. We will let that pass in the meantime. What we have now to do is to urge upon each elector to vote for the man he believes will serve him the best, without fear of any after-claps. We have heard a lot of nonsense talked to this effect : "If you vote for Dr Monckton you will offend Mr So-and-so, and if Mr Goodbehere does'nt get in * such-and-such ' will happen." Now. we assure our readers that nothing very good, or very evil, will happen which ever way the election goes. The time has gone past when one man could do injury to another because the latter had exercised his right of the franchise he holds as a ratepayer. We live in too enlightened an age, and among too independent a people to believe any such " old woi'ld" nonsense as that. Would-be bullies — always the veriest cowards at heart — may offer threats, inspired perhaps by their own undefined terrors ; but these should be treated with the good-humored contempt they deserve Thut man who fears to do which he believes to be lawful and right from a dread of " making enemies," does not deserve to live among a free people. For ourselves, we state boldly that w *. support the candidature of Dr Monckton for the reason that we believe he will do honor to the position, and we oppose Mr Goodbehere because we hold that however good a man may be, and Mr Goodbehere has been an excellent Mayor, he ha? no moral right to the position for all time.