HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 279, 20 November 1873, Page 2

HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN.

To the Editor or thb Nelson Evening Mail, Sir,-— From the tremendous roar of the Buller Lion (query Lie'un) we anticipated at least fearlessness, but by the letter of his champion chairman issued in. your paper on the 18th. we find the roar degenerating into that feeble and meaningless howl, *« Behold me, the supporter of the working man." Bah ! upon such rubbish. Surely this Buller Lion (or Lie'un) has been verifying the.old fable ofthe ass, who paraded himself in a lion's skin, causing great terror, until he was discovered hy his braying, when he was ignominiously brought to his level. By what possible right can this man be called our champion ?~ Wq haye: hea*i7>f his aristocratic connections, where he does not seem to have been a great ornament, ao he condescends, for private reasons, to call himself the working man's friend, although he has a weakness fpr monopolizing sections in a quiet, very quiet way. It is easy, as this, man is doing, to find fault, but will his own antecedents bear the light of day ? We shall see, perhaps, before the polling day. I hope the people of Nelson are not so easily gulled by every buffoon crying but " Sleepy Nelaon." I trust, rather, that they will see if he has shown ability to repair it. Friends, do not be humbugged, or we shall indeed become sleepy Nelson. Between O. C. and O'C. choose the one we know, bearing in mind the matrimonial caution, "If ydu change the name and not the letter You change for worse and not for better." Yours, &c, ...... ... Charley.' :