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Southland Times, Issue 1755, 17 June 1873, Page 2

To mobbow the electors of Otago will be called upon to record their votes in favor of one of the three candidates- for the Superintendency. We have already expressed our opinion in favor of Mr James Macandeew, and that opinion, we doubt not, is shared by a vast majority of the electors of the Province. There is a danger, however, in this very confidence, which we deem it right to point out. Every voter of the small minority who may favor Mr Gillies's claims is sure to be at considerable trouble, if necessary, to record his vote; while it is just possible that many, or perhaps the greater number, of Mr Macandbew's friends, deeming that gentleman's re-election perfectly secure, may not think it worth while to go to the poll. In so doing, however, they make a great mistake. This consideration, simple and obvious as it may seem, is precisely one of those elementary principles of political warfare, the neglect of which has frequently ere now led an over-confident party to a well-deserved defeat. The hint should be sufiicient to ensure the attendance at the poll of every elector who wishes well to the cause of progress, and who can find the means, at any reasonable sacrifice of time and convenience, of recording his vote. A lißt of the polling booths for tbe Southland district appears elsewhere in this issue in our advertising columns.