COBDEN AND ITS COUNCILLOR.

Grey River Argus, Issue 625, 20 January 1870, Page 2

COBDEN AND ITS COUNCILLOR.

{To the Editor of the Grey River Arfpis.}, Sir— ln a Westport Tiroes of a recent date, I read a letter emanating from thepen of Mr Sub - Inspector Franklyn,, M.P.C. The letter in question- is such a classical composition, so chaste in style,, couched in such elegant language, and withal so modest and tnithfid^ that I hope* you will find room for it in your journal, to rescue it from oblivion. Be good enough to let it appear as earlyas possible, as I am anxious to order a. frame for it. — I am, &c., Looker-on. Cobden, Jan. 14. (To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sir— ln your issue of to-day I read an) extract from the Grey River Abgus,, being a report of a meeting held at the school-room at Cobden, and presided over by the late defeated candidates Wilkie and Boase, and at which these two coalheavers appear to have used my namepretty freely. Naturally my first thoughts,, on reading this report, was to write to you explaining fully what I actually did say and what I did not say. On reflection,, however, I think my most sensible plan is. to leave these Cobden squalling demagogues to their own devices, but at the same time to renew publicly an expression I am stated to have made — that I hold the. Ranters of Cobden in the utmost contempt, and that I despise and defy them. i Let me tell these spouting dolts that a. ' man like myself, who carries the good 1 opinion of five thousand miners on these gold fields, is not to be put down by five* or six psalm-singing hypocrites belonging; to such a miserable hamlet as Cbbden. — > I am, &c, W. N. Franklyn, M.P.C. for Grey Valley. December 25.