ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1051, 2 September 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU Ml Sir, —In the present election times, perhaps you will insert a fw. from a constant reader of yours, oblige a working man and an i.t The important question for the elect' New Zealand rightly to decide is. are the best men to represent us inT. incut ! It must be admitted by i candid person that the late f;iir nml. Government has been shamefully lis some members at least of the Oppos. The inveterate obstruction desigiir opponents of the late Govcrnimiiiti vent liberal measures of reform genf and that of the Loan Bill in pan: (which should have been passed t; obstruction, considering our is difficulty and the depressed st;U-.i country, through which the work;:; was sure to suffer first and ■ from being passed, call for tin emphatic and pronounced ties every elector against such cneE the people and the country. It is hoped that the working men i coming election will show their <fc tion of such men by refusing for them, and return those meintlr striven hard for reform for the f good of the community and t.o raafe Zealand what it is represented te the Old Country—a desirable li<-» the industrious working man. One of the candidates contestelection for the Waitalci constitfc. the late editor of the North Otaf journal. As regards this candidate surprised that he, or any of the c'.: belongs to, can have the audacity'' forth sheltered under the banner Liberal platform. Reflecting on-; procccdings of this clique, wo tthey have been tho opposite ot Some of their deeds will disg® pages of New Zealand history, names will be handed down to [* in connection with the stains thsj left on its pages which time elface. They are only place-® time-servers, seeking to raise the* at the public expense— by crushingSuch men are tho curse of the : with whom it is their lot to duereturn to tho gentleman in this much may be said : If sympathisers could manage to P at the head of the poll, it w»uM opposition to the wishes of ft ber of the electors. He has W long a servile tool to the clique t 1 to. The political atmosphere is E purged of the foul gas ho s° | disseminated by means of the journal he presided over, to thoco and disgust of the people of this ' In his reply to his requisitionists, —"You rightly credit me wi' n views," &c. In this statement' deal of artful duplicity, which W less chuckles over. Ho has prep l various baits in his programme» object of catching all the creeds, as much as to say, " If your votes to me, I will make 1 deavor to see that everyone of, get what he wants." " Catch 5 asleep and pinch his ears ' s _' adage. You might catch a not the electors. They arc a ( their interests, looking out on tower for a hostile foe. W hat =• done with men who, instead of r i ing their constituents, selves. With such men set. beginning, the contre, and the en* are some men who, if they weiclj with a purse of sovereigns, themselves, body and soul, tot* That is where such men as "■ Hon." John M'Lean wield sued w They would down with sue J ■ Messrs. Hislop and irIIIIS ,'H they prefer to serve the pc ,;i P '.H not bow the knee to them a"' constituents. Truly we wan e Bill a few years ago, and wa ■ V Such candidates have only t \ of being the true blue, an" 11 '■ were offered, perhaps unuiist' cations would appear of changed color. The elector cannot do better than representatives, who are u^ c : H who have disinterestedly s«r\ stituents, and have justly confidence. —I am, &c., TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sib,-I am very much observe how fully y° ur , have proved the incorte

Steward's explanation of bis conduct in connection with the granting of a second member for Waitaki, a® it "ili ar towards proving to those who appeared to be won over by ht# r.xer edfngty plauaibte address at Livingstone on Monday evening, that his statements arc not trustworthy. It is not at alt difficult to conclude that if his statements are untenable in one particular, they are unreliable in cth«r particulars; in fact, if he errs m one instance of this kind, it is impossible to say in what particular he can be trusted. For instance, he asserted he had always been a liberal, and had, during his former terra of service, always voted in favor of liberal measures, and yet he was a member of that party who did aH they could to build up a landed aristocracy, to the exclusion of the working classes and men of small means. lie js now opposed to plurality of votes ; yet, if my memory serves me, he to one of those who helped to pais that very unjust provision by which the people ran be outvoted by the squatter and targe landowner. Again, he told us he was not a ■quatter's nominee. Possibly not; but any person knowing those who accompanied him to Livingstone moat so conclude, one being undoubtedly a squatter's friend, and the~other— welt, a very warm personal friend of Mr. Steward's. It would have been much more to his credit had ho stayed in Oamaru, instead of coming up here to try to influence the votes of a few with whom he is acquainted in favor of one who can point truthfully to no service rendered, aa against those who have done nil they could to. further our interests. He is a thorough Xiiberal, and will support nil the Liberal measures of the present Government, whilst he would be opposed to their chief exponent, Sir George Grey. I noticed Mr. Steward treated the question of taxation reform very tendcrly._ He, however, disapproved the reduction on the poor man's tea and sugar, asserting that no reduction in price had resulted therefrom, and had the former duties thereon been maintained the Treasury would now bo in a very different state. The land tax he, of course, treated very lightly indeed. You see he was addressing those who approved of it, hence he could say little against it, lest it should cost him a vote. He coutd, on the other hand, say nothing in its favor without offending those who have nominated him. Mr. Steward took great credit to himsetf for what he had done for Livingstone in the matter of the Oamaro-Ltvingstone Railway, as though his solo object all through had been to benefit those he was addressing, whilst it is patent to all that his efforts were- put forth in the interests of Targe landed proprietors, and the result will merely in an accidental manner be an insignificant boon to Livingstone. Minora have, as everybody knows, little need for a railway, and the land available, that is what is not already sold, is so limited that there is little prospect of much traffic from Maerewhenua. I trust the electors ■will see through his wily ways, and support those who need no clap-trap to prove themselves worthy of trust and confidence. I am, Ax*., I Another Coc:.trt Elector.