The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, July 14, 1887. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 15, 14 July 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Thursday, July 14, 1887. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.

Be just and fear not; tet all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country's, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

It is pleasing to see that so many of the candidates for political honors are declaring allegiance to neither Vogel nor Stout nor Atkinson, but intimating that they would prefer to see an entirely new team altogether. Of these gentlemen Mr Bunny, who is contesting a Wairarapa seat, made some remarks the other day when addressing the electors, with which we must heartily agree. “He believed that a thoroughly new team would be preferable to any of the old leaders regaining office. It was absurd to think that Major Atkinson, Sir Julius Vogel, and Sir Robert Stout were the only men capable of carrying on the Government.” We are quite of Mr Bunny’s opinion that the “ old Parliamentary hands ” should be relegated to a sweet seclusion from Ministerial honors for a year or two. It would do them a lot of good and have a good result on the colony’s prosperity. The candidate expressed his opinion that a Land and Income tax would be far preferable to the Property Tax and, another praiseworthy plank in his platform, he would materially reduce the Governor’s salary. He was slightly rough on “ our only General,” for he says: “At least /io,ooo could be saved in the Defence Department, but they could not expect Whitmore, Boddam, and Co. to favour such a course at it was against their bread and butter ’’ In which we certainly acquiesce, as although no doubt it is highly desirable that General Whitmore should have bread it is hardly fair to expect the taxpayers-to butter it tor him to the tune of £foa a year and those delightfully expansive travelling expenses. Several other candidates are expressing views of a similar character, and there seems to be everywhere springing up a healthy reaction against the extravagance of the past, and a praiseworthy desire to put in power an entirely new set of men, honest, free from trickery and dodgery, and wholly devoted to the best interests of the colony, instead of mainly to those of their own pockets,