THE ELECTION AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 44, 22 September 1887, Page 2

THE ELECTION AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE.

[To thx Editor.] Sib, —As the time for electing a proper man in a proper place is so near I would now like to come forward at once with a spring and say with as few words as possible to the public, especially the working men and tradespeople, my mind. Whilst I have been reading first one address and then another, weighing them carefully over, putting this and that together, I find it is every man’s duty to consider who they intend to return as their representative in the House to do his best for both working man and the country in this district and every other district also. In my opinion, hearing the addresses of all of them as most of us have done, I would like to return men like Mr McDonald all over the colony. Then, lam sure, we should have abetter state of things throughout N.Z. Mr McDonald has shown all through his addressed the laud question and anything else that has been put to him, in a straightforward manner, and, as he says himself, he is a tested man, so he is. He acknowledges himself in one fault which he is sorry for, but give me the man who openly owns his fault than the man who tries to hide it, for then we expect amends which we shall have in that man. Again, Mr McDonald for ever, and, as stated in last Saturday’s Herald, it is better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don’t know; also, some one was good enough to cast a remark that it took some men three or six years to learn the ins and outs of the House before they knew what to do. I quite agree that a wild bird caught fresh in the woods doesn’t whistle in a new cage as before, until he sees were he is. Then return the man that knows the run of the ropes—McDonald. Put a man as an apprentice to a trade, he is not fit for work until he has served some time, neither can a stranger step into the House and carry things off flying until he knows were he is. Promises are like pie crusts, made to be broken ) but what we shall get, Some kind reader may think pr say. Whoever put that bit in has been paid or put up to it, but I can assure you o ie and all I have never spoken to the man in all my life, but have been watching for myself how things were going. I have been here long enough for a vote and £ will give it straight and plump to McDonald for ever. Just two words before I close, fellow workmen and tradespeople, if we want eight hour* per day and eight shillings per day and employ our own district labour, if we want a big loaf of bread ana some cheese to it, if we want to be honest and earn an honest living, instead of a small loaf and seven shillings for eight hours, if we want men to stand for u* like men in the House for the benefit of us all, let me ask every fellow workman and tradesman to consider these things and go plump for McDonald and men like him all over the colony and we shall have our rights.— I am, &c. McDonaldite.