THE NELSON SUPERINTENDENCY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1650, 18 November 1873, Page 2

THE NELSON SUPERINTENDENCY.

•■•-•:.■ [EXAMrNBR.] { ;j ;t fj " M : ,T t ,, As we thave jgaid from, the^firat,, this election must turn on' personal grounds only, and it will be for the electors to think well' before they determine ; how their- votes ■> should be 'r given*!. > The> .only complaint against Mr Curtis is thathe has not been energetic enough ; but if .ithe charge were true, it would still to remember the fable of King lipg and'Kinjj Stork. The frogs who; cried tiut'ao^fltich against the mild sway bi JSihg iog c foShd the change to his majesty the Stork by no | means to their, advantage in the l end. o^Mr P'Conorte f!i progr,ess, ff wquid'^biß^of the hobby-Tiorse siyle! 'Certainiy f the speeches the West .Coast: candidate has delivered here, though theyiprove him to be possessed r pf an up measurable stock of words ■^-of the r pbW-'" ( spbut'a^a;spbttt* : By the

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hour—do not afford proof of much good taste or sound judgment. It is, of course, by no means an objection that he is an " untried man " as Superintendent ; but it cannot be said that one who has been a member of the Provincial Council for some years, and. also of the Bouse of Representatives for some time, is an " untried man." In neither of these positions has he shown any capacity to originate useful measures ; and neither in one chamber nor the other has he succeeded in securing the confidence or respect of his brother members. Me O'Oonor is one of those lobbyists — we cannot call him politician — whom .Providence has fashioned hollow. The key to his opinions is— self ; his idea of the way to accomplish his desires is — anyhow. The Province can want no charlatan of this kind to be its Superintendent. The electors are too manly and intelligent, too sensitive and too sensible of what is due to themselves to set up over them such a Goth as this. What are his ideas of a Superintendent's duties 1 The Superintendent, Mr O'Conor thinks, should not be a member of the House of Representatives, because he cannot be spared from the Provincial Buildings. Yet the Superintendent should wear spurs on his boots, and be perpetually on the hills — like a boundary rider, or a stockman, rounding up a mob of: cattle. 1> lr Curtis' does not wear spurs, therefore he should not be Superintendent ; because Mr O'Conor can ride like a Camanche, and hold his own in a free fight with any other in the colony— therefore. he. should represent the people of the Province of Nelson 1 There are other scales, however, in which to weigh the candidates and their claims to the support of the electors. This knight of the spurs may be reminded of Pope's well-known estimaie of mind as against matter — "Mind makes the man— the want of it, the . fellow." Mr O'Conor is astute enough to note, in this case, which is the man and which the fellow.