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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 14, 18 December 1878, Page 2

Ji .ooBEBSPOJJDBNt; wiio' ttgffs himself ." Ooiijrnon ' Sens?,'', Has f or vrarded As a : lon g letter iyi Hi regard to Mr 'a <^''^(B i ''-j)Ublwh : 'it.»f» titfiim.^2tfera- ; tftwv and vrjtliout curiailrnehti a^ ; we v^iKvta^ivft'tlie supporters 'oOf r TtiL:eve:r^; bpipofvtfiuty;6rßjefdriaihff : : ltis latie Wti ask . correspond6ht,B : wlio-may'infutbve ; favor "us \fith ' their ; I vi'en's to' brin^ tllem into :< a 'stnaller compass, "iolli^i'y^ise -wo shall be reliactanM^ cpmpdUsd,' to appl ; y ' t his : p r u inn g lUiift thcui of ■of " tbeir ;|ajr p^bportioiis ; or^ j-'worse'.-:" stf Hj* ; r>|eet; t)icra : .' ftl tßgctb«iv ■The ile^fer of "Cpr^m6n Itense '^^ottld lead us |o snpppse .that its auiKor wrMc, not bp(«?isc'ty».h'a3;yn^ ; M ; h a> h o ' woiiiil s?i jry or shbt^d sa j, bii^ beraase he fvlt It ilic'rnnbeufc^ upon iii*iv to take a lian^aalb^ gatbe b 4ugiplayoti ; Und const'qd^htljr > his ideas thiotigiv pseudo-didti^tac, are I'.y no^iians clcat'-i ■9t CO^i^v; .^-Ql ■$ "oi\r ;'

age submitted, there is one sentence — and only one-^whiuh merits a reply. " Common Scnsej" says : — " Krery man wlio aspires to take a public office fehould dp so .with the knowledge that he is 1 public property, liable to bo critically inspected, andhis pa«t life reviewed by his sharpest and keenest eyed opponent, Ac.-" If "Common Sense." had only been true to; his name, and devoted a little thought lo what he was about to write, he would have been saved now appearing m a false position ; fpr he would know — or at least, should know— that there is not the slightest analogy between the propps.ition he submits and Mr Halqombr's action. Had that gentlemanin his private capacity protested against the re-appearance of Mr LotBON q,s a public man, he had a { perfect liberty to do so. Then his dictum would b|e that of Mr Halcombe alono, and his opinion that of an individual. What m take exception to is, that hie as a representative, was not only guilty of action which many— if not the majiofity: of his' constituents—^wquld indignantly disclaim, but, that he actually strove to disfranchise the riding for which Mr Loudon was returned.