IMPROPER QUESTIONS AT POLITICAL MEETINGS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 127, 28 November 1893, Page 2

IMPROPER QUESTIONS AT POLITICAL MEETINGS.

TO THE BDITOH OF THK STAR. Sir, — I. as a female elector, attended my first political meeting a few evenings ago, and I went with fear and trembling lest my ears should be offended by some coarse remark, but I was most agreeably surprised. There was nothing said thai the most sensitive could take exception to. But, alas (or my faith in human nature, at Mr Leary's meeting, at Coly" too, last Saturday, an individual, after asking several irrelevant question*, jumped up, and asked the candidate as to the morals of another candidate. The chairman said, and rightly, that it was not a proper question to ask, and Mr Leary treated it with the contempt it deserved. But, Mr Editor, what were the men for? There were several fathers and brothers present and if they had done their duty they would have expel led the offender from the Hall. It was bad enough for matrons' ears to tingle at such words, but what about our daughters? Is it possible to politically educate them if such scurrilous questions are asked? In concluding, I must, in justice to the Coljton people, sny the individual in question was not one of them. I am, etc., Fkmale Elector.