The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, August 28, 1887. NEITHER OF THEM.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 31, 23 August 1887, Page 2

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

Tuesday, August 28, 1887. NEITHER OF THEM.

Be jußt'and fesr bot; - Let all the ends tbou alm'it at be thy country’.. Thy God's, and truth’s.

By a reprinted article in another column it will be seen that the Napier Daily Telegraph has been expressing its opinion upon the three candidates for the East Coast seat. Being the ortran of the Hawke's Bay Tories the Telegraph naturally wishes to see a Tory candidate gSt'wr-.'for -this district. Of course the Telegraph can, if it chooses, give us advice whom to vote for, but it by no means follows that we shall act upon its advice.

; .. With reference to this article we would remind our readers that we challenged the Poverty Bay Herald bn Saturday last to reprint it. It did not, and why ? Simply because the Herald people have "resolved to'admit nothing into their jour-

nalisricutowtiDu which is to Mr Graham’s disad v antage. Anything which will throw discredit upon Mr McDonald, the Evening Ananias is only too happy to sieze upon, but when anything reflects upon Mr-Graham’s chance of election, it is studiously ignored. And yet thio " thing " calls itself a newipaper. We do not support Mr Gannon, but we are quite willing to give him fair play, and that is one reason why we re-print the Telegraph's articlfc j Anpthcp thaLA»ro«p»dt~it is toenable us to compent upon the supercilious style in which the Napier Telegraph, we nearly wrote " Bellowgraph," refers to Mr McDonald, Despite whatever the" Telegraph may say -Mr McDonald it an independent candidate, How can he be called a supporter of the present Ministry when it is well known that Ballance’s native land legislation is to him utterly obnoxious ? The Telegraph is so firmly bound down to party ties that it cannot possibly conceive of a candidate holding independent views.

And supposing even he were a supporter of Sir Robert Stout, what then? Why, then we would cheerfully vote for him as against two candidates who will favour the accession to power of the old Atkinson-Hall continuous Ministry. The two Napier organs.arp : ?ai mad in their hatred of any Liberal measures that they would do anything to prevent an independent Liberal candidate being returned, and the Telegraph’s comments upon Mr McDonald are a proof of this.

But to return to the main question which the Telegraph raises, Gannon v. Graham. The articles confirm what we have always contended, that the Tory party in this district are disunited and that neither of their two local candidates ought to have the slightest chance It is not a question of Gannon v. Graham or Graham v. Gannon, at all

For the electors of the district who want to be represented by a straightforward, honest politician, one not bound down to the banks and loan companies or one of the “chop and change about ’’ order, a Liberal one year and a Tory the next, it is a question of McDonald v. Graham and Gannon, one strong and reliable man against two weak and unreliable men, and we sincerely trust that the one man, Mr McDonald, may on the polling day knock kite high the two men.

But oh, for the Herald to deny fair play to one of its own side, a quandarn contributor too. “ Save me from my friends,’’ Mr Graham may well cry when his journalistic toady suppresses outside opinion. “ - r .

As-for. ourselves, we. say once more neither-ofthem; Vote for McDonald.

DESPICABLE DEVfegS; V The opponents of Mr Allan McDonald are evidently determined to use the most cowardly aitd most despicable devices to injure him in the estimation of the electors, Mr .McDonald has been openly tad privately abused because of his connection with the bankrupts Ward and Aislabie, and the most scoundrelly Insinuations have been thfoWit out. '

As a matter of fact) Mr A. McDonald, tvho is a bljj-hSAHed man, has suffered a great finaftcial loss by the two estates. He has suffered through his own good nature, and far more so than some of the cantankerous creditors who are howling out for revenge, Take the Aislabie WS for instance.All sorts' of blackguardly hints were thrown about as to his connection with the estate. And how does he come but Of it ? Why, with a loss of over £650. He has given up bills of sale, and has endeavoured to meet the creditors iti every way, and yet he has been blariied by ignorant, Unthinking people far holding out a frieiidly helping harid id fine who was.in tfoublfei

At. evfity fine of Aislabie’s meetings, there have been the most disgraceful charges hinted at. And by whom? iy men who were Mr McDonald’s political opponents. Pert little cock-sparrows, ill nurtured on bide paper, and full of the assurance whitjh a lawyer's wig andgown bestows upot) them, have-dispiayed their venomous verbosity in trying to “make out' a cake ” for the benefit of their political ends ; whilst an Annanias-like editor, a scurrilous specimen of the worst class of New Zealand journalist, has printed' deliberately, falsified reports of what took place.

Worse than this, “boycotting" is openly threatened against those who support Mr McDonald against the banks and the squattocracy- Such miserable devices to cast discredit upon a high-minded, generous-hearted public man ’ like Mr McDonald can only have one result, that of disgusting every thoughtful elector and increasing the ranks of his adherents. Mr Allan McDonald has been in the Bay for years, his public and private career is open to the knowledge of everyone, and we fearlessly challenge anyone to prove one' singl’d dishonourable act against him. , .

We do fiot blame Messrs Graham and Gannon for these reckless accusations, these most miserable of misrepresentations and this fiendish malice and malignity. Far from it, they are both! we-trust and believe, incapable of descending to such base and despicable means.

■“'lfrl's to their journalistic henchman that the blame must attach. He for paltry pelf is capable of slandering an absent woman, hounding down an unfortunate man, and besmirching, wholesale and retail, and for exportation, the fair fame of the district. To him such a minfir matter as endeavouring for weeks to lie'away the reputation of a political opponent is An easy [and congenial duty, and he fulfills that -duty with all the bought hatred of a Grub street hack, and all the vindictive viciousnesss of a mind blind to anything and everything in any way approaching' justice.