A LOCAL CANDIDATE FOR BRUCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12482, 13 October 1902, Page 2

A LOCAL CANDIDATE FOR BRUCE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin,—l listened attentively to Mr J. A. Scott's preliminary speech in St. George's Hall, Milton, on Friday night last, and, doubtless with many others, sympathised with tho gentleman upon tho loss of friendship he had suffered by conscientiously changing his faith in religious matters. We can all sympathise with him for trying to better his position in this world. No doubt if one of the old settlers' sons of Bruce had been induced to plead to the electors in this fashion his circumstances would have been taken into consideration. With Mr Scott, we have his own words that he merely came here three years ago for the benefit of his health. He also admits that ho has no stake in the Bruce County. It is a suggestion that he also came looking for lucrative employment. I should be very sorry to cast any slur,on him or impugn Mr Soott's sincerity, but when ho asks the electors of Bruoe to send him to Wellington to be their representative at £300 per annum and promises them that- if they will rally round him and secure his rot-urn "he will live in Bruoe all the time he is not otherwise engaged," it oertainly has the appearance of a jest. God forbid that Bruce is so hard up for intelligence a.s thk. If she has to go begging in this manner her prestige will be lowered in tho eyes of our colony and the wide world over.—l am, etc., Thos. Allchin.