Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 67, 4 December 1888, Page 3

Correspondence

We are not responsible for the opinions of our correspondents.] THE RECENT MAYORAL ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAH SiK,T-The candidates in the late election for the postof Mayor were men of considerable standing and education, and each treated|his opponent with the courtesy due from one gentleman to another. I have reason to believe that'after the contest the kindly relations, originally existing between the two, were, re-established, even if they were temporarily strained. What then is the meaning of the coarse, loud-tongued, vulgar, personal abuse that is being heaped upon the supporters of the winning side ? Places of. business to be , boycotted,, the Returning Officer to be made sm^rfesor ' kicked out, and all these, vindictive xneftures to be resorted to, which ragged "thenieelves to narrow and malicious minds; ' ' Fpr ; the credit of the community, and. of themselves, pray, Sir, notify at once to these" " spiteful few" that keeping up ill ifclodd, and giving vent to their childish threats, can only- result in Bringing down npon them the deserved contempt of the maS body of > burgesses 'on both sides.— l ian tte t , - Okb of thk Many.