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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1194, 7 November 1882, Page 2

Captain Tucker’s letter to the “Herald” of last evening is worthy of Captain Tucker. On the principle that one body of men should not hold a certain power in electioneering matters he suggests the formation of a SOCIETX (mark the distinction) in which such powers should be vested. Now this is just the very thing which lias to be sat upon. Cliquey, stale, and one-sided, and with a decidedly shady reputation as are the circles of Poverty Bay which have hitherto ruled the roost, it is high time that they were shewn up in their true and ignominious character. A letter was brought to us the other day, but afterwards withdrawn, which appeared to us to have dealt very clearly with the matter. Doubtless Captain Tucker and ef hoc genus omnes would like the ruling of these matters in their own hands : would make a monopoly of them, and thrive and fatten on them, and laugh at the imbecility of those by whose sufferance they did so. They have had a pretty rosy time of it hitherto, but the people are now beginning to feel that these cliques are monstrous nuisances, hot beds of iniquity, and the root and source of every evil in the district. It is the duty of a journalist to unmask these rotten and festering sores : to expose them to the public stripped of their plausible clothing and standing out in bold relief in their own true and contemptible character. It is perfectly necessary where certain citizens have without doubt been for years past controlling matters of public interest, and prostituting them to their own private ends in utter disregard of the rights or claims of the public that those cliques shall meet with such strong a’Vl determined opposition as shall teach th m the futility of playing off cunning and plausible selfishness and secresy against straightforward and honest outspoken determinat ion. Captain Tucker’s letter had the effect upon us. as his letters always have, of making us want to see what is at the bottom of the pot. Is there another little game afoot ? or what mean those lamb-like and saccharine utterances ? Time, and Captain Tucker will doubtless tell.