The Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1873.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 222, 30 May 1873, Page 4

The Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1873.

■ in is course taken by ilie AVell'ngton Cabinet', in grauiiug a dissolution on the *ole request of his lienor the iSupe: iulendent, has been made Hie excuse for ail sorts of captious and frivolous charges by the. uppositiou journals. Why the Iteid kielion should have endeavored to shirk a meeting wjth the country was not easily explained aw;ry. There is no question in which it might bo presumed there would be likely to be a hastily got up and erroneous popular opinion. ISu question had occiured to inflame men's minds, as Lometimcs happens in older countries, on a climax such as the neutrality or otherwise of a nation, war,bet ween others, the repealing-oi the corn laws, or the passing of the first ixelbrin Uill. Merely, in its simplicity, a question arose as to whether the was to have a voice in the choice of his own advisers, or should men who were in e.veiy- wav, ami publicly, opposed to him' be associated with him, hi such close relationship as a Provincial Executive, must hold with the Superintendent. Much capital has been attempted to be made by the Opposition as to the const ituiioMal que*iion, and we are likely to hear much.more from our lnember.-j du"iug the clfc-tv»r;ii r:unpiiiun. it is .very. conduct, was uneuiistil-ulional, buc it is

not so easy to" "prove "it.- . "We certaiuly do not give Messrs. Armstrong and Mervyn credit for being able to understand what they so loudly declaim about. . - * • . •-. The Mount Ida constituency has.a . calm, deli berate, task to .perform during the next fow woeks. In-the first place, it must insist that the two members returned as representatives for.. Mount iua be pledged not necessarily to support the Tolmie Executive, but : . to give a heany and willing support to Mr Maeandrew in all measures —and their name.is legion—he- proposes for= the real good, of the Province. No .. personal-friendship should-influence a. single elector.. Let a\bry voter go. to ' the poll with the candidates naraes.be?-.-lore him, unfettered by any personal promise or pledge of support. It should be considered a gross breach of faith, in an election by ballot, to ask any elector to pledge his vote. Then,, again, let men whose interest is m the district be returned. What a farce it ~ is. to have the privilege of returning, two-members to the.Couucil as cepreseiit?lives. of Mount Ida, when they | are in reality'representatives of Danedin or of Teoiot! . . . . We do not the least doubt that Mr\ Macau dre w T s. return is certain —indeed, we.hardly think, anyone wilt be-found-to oppose him—but slili it is no use returning Mr Macandrew unless • the constituencies send- men to the Council who will support him. Depend upon-it, there are quite checks enough . on-a. man of a sauguiue and progres-." sive nature in the ordinary administration of Provincial business/ without > saddling him. with a personally vindictive Opposition.