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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1212, 28 November 1882, Page 2

The Election for the Mayoralty takes place to-morrow, and we unhesitatingly say that Mr Henry Lewis will be elected to the vacant seat. We have no wish, and no reason, to attempt in any way to disparage the merits of the other candidate, but we cannot disguise from ourselves the fact that Mr E. K. Brown did not come forward until almost the eleventh hour. Some two months or three months ago, we, at the request of numerous ratepayers of this town, put the matter plainly before Mr Lewis, and requested him to stand for the approaching vacancy, and pledged ourselves to support him in the event of his electing so to do. Mr Lewis had many serious doubts, but at last, in consideration of the number and weight of the persons making the request to him, consented to stand. Need it be said that we have no reason to regret our choice. MiLewis has been a good and useful citizen, and is known as a shrewd man of business. His opponents —we do not refer to Mr Brown personally, but his supporters—have chosen a weak and cowardly line of argument against him, and which is refuted and given the lie direct to by Mr Lewis’s everyday life. Again we assert that Mr E. K. Brown’s supporters seek more the assertion of cliqueism than the well-being of the Borough. Here, on Mr Lewis’s list of persons requesting him to come forward for the Mayoralty, we see names of people who are canvassing against him, and trying all they can possibly do to prevent his return. That they will be unsuccessful we are certain, but that fact does not in the least decrease our contempt for them. The “ Herald ’’ at first would not express any opinion, or take any side, alleging to Mr W. Adair, as a reason for their not doing so that Me// rf/W not want to offend their customers. Pretty journalism this, forsooth ’

A newspaper aw.in to express an opinion for fear of offending. Well .we have hoard of queer things, but we never heard uf a Journalist confessing such a tiling ds that before; And when they sign a requisition to a candidate to conic forward they are cafefill to show the name of oiie proprietor On one candidate’s requisition; viz., 'Mr H. Lewis’s, while the other appears on that of Mr E. K. BrOwn. Well, let them do their best; their advocacy has done more td damage that gentleman's interest thaii all the Arguments wfe could possibly have used against him. Go to the Foil, Electors, and fldn’t be bamboozled By cliqucistn. Vote for Lewis, and return him at the head of the Poll as Mavor of Gisborne ! !