TOWN BOARD ELECTION.
(2b the Editor of the Daii,y Times J Sir,—The undermentioned lines are Macaulav's and are particularly appropriate at the present time' seeing that some of the old members of the Town Board are begging for votes • — "I am truly happy to find that the opinion of mv friends at Leeds <m th.o subject of canvassing, agrees with that wtaob I have long entertained. The S tiee of bagHtagfcrvote? is, as it seems to me, absurd Pernicious, and altogether at variance with the true principles of Representative Government " "The suffrage of an elector ought not to beasked or to be given as a personal favor, ueusseaor " It is as much for ft* intewst of constituents to choose well, as g Q a» oq tor the interest of a candidate to-be cuoswit TQ request an honest man to vote acoordmg to h.W conscience, is superfluous. To reauest nun to vote against his conscience, is an insult." 1 »m, kc. t A Lookbr ok. «*-- —
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 296, 1 December 1862, Page 5
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164TOWN BOARD ELECTION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 296, 1 December 1862, Page 5
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