OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 87, 14 October 1870, Page 3

OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

(To the Editor of the Mottnt Ida Chbonicle.)

Sir, —Among the mass of correspondence which lias found' place in your pages of late, to the- exclusion by Cthe way,-of' ; your usual, leaders,'! it is surp rising that .none: has;> beensfound champion Mr. Main. If it has not been positively ascertained that he does not" intend to offer himself for re-election, should Hike -to know what Ire has' done that he is to be thus quietly shelvell? -?* t 'a<is 'taken for granted that the gentleman is quite able to "go alone or is l it- that he has " riled " some of our local luminaries who seem to be slightly afflicted with " the three looley-xtreet. jailors!," complaint, by professing to have dofie for the district what they take,credit to themselves for having done ' ' ' "I havei not* the: honon-df ;a ha4id-shak r ing .acquaintance with Mr. Mam, but I presume itf will not be unwarrantable iiitrusion. to nyticfe,-it of a" public man. / ; He^appearl'd"t o be in excellent spirits- on the racecourse . last week, and to be exerting , himself to make all aKout' hiin happy—ndi' forgetting the small boys. JNTow, to be ! pi'biniscuously affable and'apj>rbjacllable is a very good trait in the character of any man, how much more so in a public man, if it escape the implication of ■being only'assumed a's' an electioneering dodge ? But, : besid.es.^|iiis, 1 Mr. Mam possesses many other Equalities which will fit him for an efficient representative of such a-* distric#- 1 as 'this, while, even according to the Press, his grievous offence is, affer all, a verv venial..one—on,ly that he a on the 'eve of an- important division,, escaped the lash of the "whip v ." But, perhaps "the gist of the complaints "urged' by the' JNaseby electors will be that :Mr.L Main did not perform alb ;he' promised. But will > any one jmentionr the;- name. of tive who ever did, Hand yet' withkl he might >have^ zealously and-conseientio usly. V : - glald .toi hear ; either-Mr. Main himself^'or-some one svho enjoys of that gentleman's intimacy .'and is "generally, better #ew Zeal and poli than .set forth fairly q^, ; Qf 'Mr. Main's political conduct since he became our representative,- minds :.of the ; electors °b r eeome i! t£mtly with'' the idea' th&t; 1 life' ;is •scratched."—l ! am; ausHiHU i.- .<- (,• ' • V- ; ~i l .Q.¥Tsn>Eß.