THE STANMORE ELECTION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2465, 1 March 1882, Page 3

THE STANMORE ELECTION.

Judging from the rumours which are afloat regarding probable candidates for Stanmore, the electors of that district will have some difficulty in making up their minds as to who shall represent them. There is [one candidate with respect to whose intentions we feel inclined to believe rumour is mistaken. "We allude to Mr. W. P. Cowlishaw. We hardly think it probable that after the events which have recently transpired, even that gentleman's hardihood will go the length of once more entering the political arena. In saying this, of course we are only taking the (standard of ordinary men posseesing perhaps a cuticle somewhat thinner than a rhinoceros, and it may be we are mistaken. If it is true that Mr. Cowlishaw intends once more to woo the sweet voices of the Stanmore electors, he will come before them under most auspicious circumstances. He can appeal with pardonable pride to the flowing eulogium pronounced on him by the highest judicial authority in the colony, a tribute of praise which would have made a more modest man Mush to hear such compliments passed upon him by so distinguished a personage as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. If this be not sufficient to commend him to the suffrages of the electors he can with honest pride refer to that * episode, which will no doubt become historical. In this he, a lay reader of the Church of England, past or present, can relate how he, assisted by a churchwarden of a suburban church, sought under the gentle influence of " something stronger," administered to a gentleman already under the sway of several potations of *' the old sort," to extract a confession from him to be used in a Court constituted to conserve the purity of election. Such a combination of flattering testimony to the fitness of the candidate as a representative in Parliament will, no doubt, have its proper weight with the electors of Stanmore if the rumour be true that the gentleman referred to intends contesting the seat. As already stated, we are inclined to doubt the truth of the statement, but time will show. Of the others mentioned, there is a probability, so far as can be learnt, of Messrs. Andrews, Bichardson and Flesher coming forward, and no doubt some others. As there will be little or no chance for any other seat, it may be that aomo of the Northern Island disappointed ones will try their luck, but we do not think it probable.