"ELECTOR" REPLIES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1911, Page 3

"ELECTOR" REPLIES.

To tlie Editor. Sir,—ln reply to Mr W. .R. Burge's eulogy of Mr Byron Brown, which appeared in your columns on Saturday. Mr Burgo certainly deserves some credit for lauding Mr Brown and singing ihiis praises, for it is extremely difficult to find many citizens of Levin who arc willing to came forward and praise the actions and political methods of Mrßyu-m Brown. The electors of this town do nob "fall over one another" in order to boost up Byron Brown. Mr Burgo rightly states that "ho appeals to every fair-minded elector to haso his judgment on what he (the elector) has heard Mr Brown say, from the platform and) not what has been poured into his car at the street comer." Now, Mr Editor, this is precisely what I am going to do. I heard Byron Brown on the Fox ton platform state that "if he did not score two votes in Otaki to that of eacih of the candidates" tlnat lie (Byron Brown) would not show his face in Foxton again. I heard Byron Brown on the platform at Levin And Otaki point-blank deny that he ever made such a statement in Foxton. T heard Bvron Brown state at the Century Hall, Levin, that the Gear Estate realised about £-10 per Acre all over; at Otaki two nights later I heard Byron Brown deny that lie ever made such a. statement in Levin. I heard the same candidate on the Otaki platform state— 1. That Mr Massey should "get his h'ead read." 2. That he (Byron Brown) was in favour of "secret courts and commissions." 3. That he was in" favour of appointing tho Otaki police officer an "Inspector of Fallen Women." 4. No person could obtain an advance from the Government, unless the application was made through a certain firm. There is only one way to judge'Mr Byron Brown, land that is from his utterances on the public platform. T undei'stand he speaks at "Wera.roa this evening, and we sh-nll probably have the pleasure (?) of listening to some further contradiction and Wliitecliapel oratory.—Yours, etc., ELECTOR.