The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, September 8, 1887. THE ELECTION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 38, 8 September 1887, Page 2

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

Thursday, September 8, 1887. THE ELECTION.

Be jurtoad fear cot | Let all the ends thou alin'et at be thy country’s. Thy God’s, and truth’s.

THE approaching election seems likely to bring out a larger proportion of competition for seats in the House than any heretofore and this may be easily accounted for by the widespread anxiety about the financial condition of the countiy, With a serious deficit to be made up from last year, further taxation in some shape or other and large retrenchment seem unavoidable. The several aspirants therefore ventilate many and very diverse projects of financial reform throughout the Colony WeinGisbornemayrely on this,that whatever direction the remedial measures adopted may take, they will not be perceptibly influenced by Gisborne necessities. The few have to bear what the many decree. Cook County is the youngest district in the colony, and wants a great deal of what has been so long enjoyed by other districts—good roads. It is hardly conceivable to a Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington, or Auckland man that any one can be imprisoned as we are without communication to land through our own district or with other parts of the colony except weekly by sea. The convenience ofgood roads and railways others have long enjoyed and they cannot realise the state of things we have to put up with. While their minds are agitated by such questions as a further loan to extend their own railways, we need hardly hope they will ever exempt us from the burden so undertaken though it in no way benefits us, or that they will allow even a proportionate share of the expenditure to come our way. A representative from this district must almost always be without support when he struggles to save his district from burdens which do not benefit it, or when he strives to obtain assistance to enable it to move forward even a little way towards the progress other districts have long attained at a cost of which we have to bear so large a share. What then can our member do ? He must act like the weak always do, he must give way to a force he cannot resist. If the weak are often unfairly dealt with, on the other hand they excite sympathy when they

manfully struggle for justice, unless by ignorance of the world, temper, or from sheer despair they let things “ rip.” Then they repel rather than attract that feeling of fair play which is all that they can rely upon to assist them. In advocating the election of Mr A McDonald we look upon him as a man of strong resource, able to fight our battles. If even beaten in his endeavours he always comes up ready for the next bout. Personally one of the most popular men in the House, always at his post, with a reliable common sense, and knowledge of his fellow tnen, Mr . McDonald will succeed where a man of heavier mental calibre, but without these other essential qualities, would hopelessly fail. He knows well what are our wants, and is not bigotedly in favor of the political nostrums of the day which our single member could not prevent being applied to us, however unpalatable. Mr Me Donald may be relied upon to go straight in the direction it is our interest he should exert himself, and he will have the more chance of support that he is not likely to make enemies, by strong views on the vexed questions and abstract theories of the moment. A good practical man, thoroughly acquainted with the fonn s and modes of gaining his point in the House, a worker rather than a talker, genial and kind-hearted, he will gain from regard what no argument would ever achieve for us,