STANMORE ELECTION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2594, 31 July 1882, Page 3

STANMORE ELECTION.

To the Editor of the Olobe. Sir,—l hope you will allow me space in your journal to refer to what has been said of mo by “ Fair Play ” in yours of Friday lait. And in beginning, I think if he had given his name, as I have docs, it would have been somewhat more manly. But I suppose he has very good reasons for withholding it. At any rate, I think I have acted more straightforwardly than ho has done in denouncing Mr Pilliet’s conduct to the electors of Stanmoro. It is no use saying that Mr Pilliet had any reason because of the disorganised state of the Opposition, as we did not require to go to Wellington to know that. And, besides, ho had only just come from Wellington a short time before his election, and must have known as much about the state of the two parties as he did on the evening on which he voted against them. So far from I, or any of the electors of dtanmore, having acted in an unmanly manner in condemning Mr Pilliet’a conduct, it would have shown a very low state of honesty had some one not condemned him, and, in my opinion, it will not add at all to the dignity of our representative institutions if the Government wink at such conduct as Mr Pilliet has been guilty of for the sake of a supporter, setting aside altogether what will be the result of it with the elector*—as now the general belief is that men only go to Wellington to serve themselvej. There is one gentleman in the Government whom I have known for the whole of his political life, namely, Mr Rolles ton, who, it he has in any degree countenanced such low actions, he has given the lie to all bis past political life. And if so, I must attribute it to the company he is keeping, as we all know that “ evil communications corrupt good manners.” Yours, Ac., B. OLEPHANE. Christchurch, July 31st, 1882.