DIRTY LINEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2215, 14 December 1920, Page 1

DIRTY LINEN.

HINTS TO ELECTION CAMPAIGNERS. • NORTHLAND ELECTIONS. The campaign in connection with the recent County Elections, says the Northland Age, is recognised as the holiest and most exciting that has-ever taken place in Northland, or probably further a field. Feeling ran high, and as a natural sequence personalities were freely indulged in. The following are a few remarks culled from the speeches of various speakers as reported.by the Age:—

“You are like the. animal called

the skunk, travelling around from door to door in this campaign, and emitting your filthy and poisonous odours trying to damage Mr Holder and myself,” said Colonel Beil to MiDan Lewis, at the Kaitaia meeting, amidst uproar. The chairman, Mr E. 11. S. Matthews, called upon the speaker to withdraw the remark, which he did.

“I have never seen such underhand and dirty tactics as (hose adopted by my opponents in this election.” —Mr Houston at Herekino. “The man who made the financial disclosures arc dirty hogs.” —Mr George Wilkinson, at Mangonui.

“Have* you written to a certain native, asking him to remember you on the day of the election, and asking him to support you on the grounds that your father and his father were good friends, and that your father often helped him in any trouble; that you wanted his help, now, and asked him to remember yon to-morrow?” asked Mr Claude Kwil/.er of Mr Houston, of Herekino, “It is just like your cowardly nature, Houston.” —Mr McMullen, County Engineer, ai the llcrckinq meeting. Colonel Bill buys land in Kaitaia at twelve pounds per acre, and sells it a! iwo thousand pounds per acre, and then he says he is doing good to the district, and everyone in it. He has not done me any good.” —Mr A. W. Masters, at Herekino. “As soon as the election is over, and as sure as God made little apples, Allen Bell’s charges will be glossed over." —Mr Houston, at Herekino.

“It showed the utter ‘lack of ignorance’ on Mr McKinnon's part to pul wages on the statement which should have been charged to loan account.” —Mr Houston, at Kaitaia. ‘‘Rais generally like to abandon a sinking ship, but that grey-headed old mt (pointing to Colonel Bell) and his followers of the so-called Progressive Party, want to lake charge, though they say that the ship is sinking.” —Mr Geo. M ilkinsou.’ at llerckiho. “You stated at your Herekino meeting that you were contesting this election with one plank in your platform, the discharge of the county engineer. Is this still (lie only plunk in your platform, and do you consider it an honourable one?” asked Mr N. Gurr, at the Herekipo meeting. “It is the principal plank in mV platform,” replied Mr Houston.

‘‘The treatment luck'd out by the Mangonui Couidy Council to the boys who lone fought for this country and the British Empire is not only u disgrace to the Council, but to idle ratepayers who elected them. After all the damned tripe which we have heard this last five years ahoul the heroes avlio have fought for the country, when they come hack and take up virgin bush with no road to it, the Council wish to further penalise them by the extraction of'rates right from the outset,”— Colonel Bell at Herekino. “The Northland Fair was the greatest disgrace and scandal the North has ever seen, all the spoilers and frauds in the country were let loose upon the people there, and someone should have gone to gaol. — Mr Geo.. Wilkinson, at Kaitaia;