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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 281, 25 November 1881, Page 3

To the Editor of the '• Evkkixg Mail " Sir,—" Simple Simon" in his all round letter which appeared in your issue of the 23rd, is very hard on the Wakefield Reform Association. He seems unaware (gammon) that the little band is scattered over a wide district, and cannot meet often, also that it is no mean task with the mass of corruption they have to deal witi. Let him look at the spectacle of an alliance of Good Templars brewers and pub icans, backed up by the Catholics, passing a vote of confidence in a man (who unblushtngly asked for it) after he had broken nearly every promise and pledge he had made on the hustings. He the Maori affair, we like Mr Bryce's " cloture" better than Sir George Grey's, crawling up on hands and knees to the pah, and begging to be admitted to a parley. It has been more effective. As Simon has seen so much of politics, he had better come and steer us out of local corruption, and give us a fair start, for we can do little with the materials at hand —I am, See. O.N'E WIIO HAS ATTENDED TWO MEETINGS OE TIIE ASSOCIATION.