THE BREWER'S INTEREST.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 318, 30 November 1881, Page 3

THE BREWER'S INTEREST.

To TUH l-'.DITOK. Sir, — There has been much said about the coming election and its relation to the various temperance societies throughout the colony. And, sir, this is the time when every body of total .abstainers should make their weight felt by the candidate whether that weight he an ounce or a ton. \Yc have a bill regulating the liquor traffic pretty satisfactorily, and should use our first endeavours to keep that little we have i inviolate. Every elector must feel that to ! hack and mutilate a hill is to nut the I country to an amount of unnecessary ex- i penss and trouble, and in this ease to no | purpose. The Act, as if now stands, j will in all probability work very well ! in nil well-conducted houses. Xow, with our own candidates, I \ think your local contemporary must be a i little short sighted when he allows his pen ' to run at random, ns in some of his leading j articles', where he terms Mr Seymour’s J speeches li.it, and tells the public we knew i it long ago. Ii we read nothing hut the i Mar/boroi'i/h H.r.pre**, we should be a long I way behind the times, even if we all give ; way to its ruling and vote for Mr Dodson, j the brewer, the new candidate. Rut the ; whole of the electors for Wair.au are not to j !>• gulled by every plausible word or article ! in Mr Dodson's or-.au to the detriment of j

; ! Mr Seymour. If every temperance man on • the roll lias his wits about him lie will lr; i j pretty well convinced that the new caucli- • j date, Mr Dodson, will not bn a likely man I to support any measures in favor of Reclia-l.-ites or. Sons of Temperance against his own j interests, ns Mr Seymour, our old and tried | representative, lias done in times past, and : in all probability will do in future, and in conclusion let me urge upon every right thinking man in tiic cause, of temperance and. sobriety to use the ballot box with discretion and then it will Its the old A!!■".:>!r.i-'.K Acain. A LITTLK IX,SIGHT, d'o Tun Editor. | Sir, —'You were pointing out some little . j time ago that 1 here is some hitch sotnc- ! whereabout this Dodson-Hcnderson bnsi- ! lies?, and last night at the public meeting : wo got to know I y Mr Dodson's admission ! in reply to Mr Ward, that, Air Henderson ! did not write or sign tlie advertisement j to the electors which said it. was “ impos- ! sible " for him to bo a candidate on account !of his heal Hi; That is one point made out. j Then the E■■/ire*-! on Monday last helps us ! to an idea in a leader which touches on tlie I subject. It appears from that article that ! Mr Dodson was quite aware that Mr Hen- | derson’shealth was really no “ liar” as you i put iN to his standing in tlie contest ; for ! the //.iyiisays, “ Air Dodson wrote to i Mr Henderson at Christchurch, urging ! him to reconsider his decision, or at all j events to delay making the announcement | in the hope that he might alter his views.” j Xow one point which comes out from this i is tiiat Mr Dodson knew that Air llender- ! son's health was no bar to his being a canI didate., or why did he ask him to reconsider 1 the case : And vet Mr Dodson published i an address for him, declaring it to he imj possible that he could come forward. One I of two positions comes out of this ; either there was nothing, in Mr Dodsons estima- | tion, to prevent M r Henderson from standing. or. Mr Dodson was hypocritically asking him to re consider as to whether lie , should do that which it was “impossible}” ; for him to do. Mr Dodson may take either horn of the dilemma. Wo are further told ' in the AV/uv'-m, “ that Mr Henderson wrote hack thanking Mr Dodson for his considers.- \ . tion, but repeating hia former detenniua- j : tion not to present himself to the elector* j at the coming election.” Xow let me direct ; , your attention to the following In a j letter published by Mr Henderson in the ; /•V.iii reply to some remarks of the • i Tiuks a few days ago, he said, “ I wrote ‘ i from Christchurch on the 30th August, | i confirming my views as set forth in my ! i letter of the lOtii.” This is tlie letter I suppose which is referred to in the article. Xotc farther, it has appeared in j ! the published correspondence by Mr Hen- j derson that the advertisement to the clec- ; tors, written not by him as is now admitted ; by Mr Dodson, was published on the 31st j August. Xow, as it was impossible for Mr , Henderson's letter writ ten in Christchurch j on the 30Mi to he in Rlenheim on the 31st, i it follows that the advertisement which j j represented it as “ impossible " for him to ; : present himself to the electors was pub- j | lished hrfbre his reply to Mr Dodson’s j ■ letter, asking him to rc-eonsider and delay ; i announcing had come to hand. If this way j | of stringing the case together is correct, j ! and I think it is, then it follows that it | was all a sham, this asking Mr Henderson j to rc-considor, “or at all events delay ; mailing the announcement in the hope that j he might alter his views.” His: reply was ! I not waited for by this ;deader for delay in t 1 making the announcement. Xo doubt Mr ; Henderson would consider he had found out ! the insincerity of this business when he j found such an untruthful advertisement j appearing in the newspapers, literally j ; wiping him oat from all future usefulness, I while th.-i writer was blandly asking him : : “ at all events’’to take time to re consider I the matter with a view to a change of i ! mind ! There can be no doubt Mr Henderson is ■ standing aside from Mr Dodson’s move- ! uient; Mr Ward brought that out plain j enough last night, and though Mr lleuder- i son is not on« of our party ho is not the man j to desert his friends without a cause. | l’crimps f have hit upon tlie cause, or some j of it. Something which, if correct, eon- \ linns my view of this case, is a rumor i that Mr Henderson having retnrnc-d in good health was willing to take the lead of his : party, but Mr Dodson declined to give j wav.—lam, &c.,