THE ELECTIONS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2394, 5 December 1881, Page 3

THE ELECTIONS.

To the Editor of the Olohe.

Sib,—ln a fear days the electors throughout the colony will return members to the House of Representatives. Therefore, it behoves all those who are desirous of promoting and supporting the prosperity and general welfare of (he colony to weigh well and truly the characters and opinions of all candidates in the scales of justice, before placing their votes in the ballot-box. And it is to be hoped that in exercising a common sense judgment, they will decidedly reject candidates of the wind-bag type, who assert their baloon-like principles in clamorous tones and fulsome epithets such as follows :—“ I’m an Irish boy, but my grandmother was an Englishwoman, who brought me up to be a hard working man ever sines I was a child fourteen years of age, and who brought me up to schoolaitio headucashun, which made me fortunately indepindint of anybody and iverobody. And I wants to go to Parlemint, because I’m the most learned advocate in the whole country—that can grasp an argimint from all sides at once, and place it logically before the members, and convince them with illegant language that would wash out all the dirty little lawyears in the House the moment I opened my purty lips.” And it is to be hoped (the electors will take due cognisance of the characters and opinions of such oandi dates who are the nominees of such saloon keepers who advertise low parodies on the highest realms of moral thoughts, by returning candidates whose lives are of known integrity, soberness of thought, and whose uprightness of mind will add dignity to an honorable position. I am, &c., FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, AND TRUTH.