POLITICS AT LAWRENCE. MR BROWN BEFORE HIS CON STITUENTS. A LIVELY EXCHANGE OF PERSONALITIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 266, 23 May 1888, Page 3

POLITICS AT LAWRENCE. MR BROWN BEFORE HIS CON STITUENTS. A LIVELY EXCHANGE OF PERSONALITIES.

Dunkdin, May 17. At Iho conclusion of Mr -). C. I>ro\vn\, Lawtence meeting Chore was a warm exchange of pcisonalitios between him, Mr Byinc (Catholic schoolmaster) and Mr I lorhurt (storekeeper). Mr Brown lofoircd to Die attacks made upon him by .sonic most iiiMgmlieant in(li\iiunls in Iho distiiot, men who wcic heie (o day r iiul there to-moirow. iio hoped these men Mould come l-o (lie front thai night and be .sili.sfkd and hold their tongues until after next .session. Mr Byrne ro-c and charged JMr I'm own with having maliuncd certain men in a most cr,i\en and cowardly m.vinci by 'making halt • spoken chaises without specifying names. Ho stigmatised liis action as a piece of cowardice. Mr Hi own : J am not malignant behind his buck ! I speak befoio his iace. Mr Byrne asked Mr Brown it lie named him :is tino of those afraid to come bofoie him. Mr Brown : Yo«. Mr licibeit having asked a question about the reduction of (Jovei nor.sand Ministerial snlaiies, Mi Dumn said the ! questioner and other membei.sof the Local j Kefoim Association wcie plundeieis, ha\ing stolen his ideas. Some of them wcie tin; brands, and a disgrace to the town, lie would Line his ica.sons. Mi llcibei't : Don't want them. Mr Brown : Oh ! but I want them. Sit down. \ou mv.st sit down while I am standing ! 1 know my position and will maintain it. Mr Diaper asked about Mr Biown having been elected on the " s\ mpathy ticker," but the latter totally ignoied him. Mr Drown paid it was a pity to .sec some ni'Mi who were diunk distuibing the meeting. They had e\ idently come thoie lired \m(li liquoi and had been piompted to ask questions. (n aibwcr to a question about assistance to Catholics ho .said Mr Tyke was nob in earnest about his I Sill lake's Bill did not covei all that he wanted. He would be in fa\oui of assisting nob only Catholics, but all alike. Mr Dtapei ■ Would you be in favour of an Act of Parliament to prevent carpet bag membei.s tiotn tiying to float mining companies '.' Mr Biown: 1 would punish the man who said, " Yon must give me C2OO, or I'll fight against it.'" (Hear, hear. ) I say that man ought to lie in gaol. (Applause.) Mr Diaper (moving up to the. platform) : lam a little deaf. 1 can I hear you, and on Mr Brow n niowng back a little, he added, " Oh, I am not going to cat jou. 1 ' Mr Bum n . Oh, I'll make )ini hear, (lntei nipt ion.) Mi Diaper: Older. 1 want to hear the little man. Mr Blown . I sa\ e\eiy man who uidea\ouistoget hush iiiouc} \ou know what that is— ' Mr Draper: \ c->, 1 understand it. Mr Blown : Well, J -uy that that man is a lit .subject foi the gaol. ((!reit ap plausc). Mr B^'inc objected to the way in which Mr Biown had ansueied the question about I Catholic education. Mi Blow n s al'ihty to qualify hi- st.itemcnl- wa- not m'nciou^ Mr Biown said the .inswei could ho nndorstood by o\er\one who kuvw English. Mr William Chalmeis imneo, "That (his meetinu, while t hanking J\I l iiiown ioi ln> j arldics-, icscmcs any expiessjon of confidence until ho has- had an oppoi I unit) of fulfilling the pi onuses made by him this evening Mr Thomson mo\ed a . ole of thanks and confidence. Mr Byrne lieieely attacked Mr I'.iownHo said* Mr Blown was oil his intellect or Ins viiulent and bombastic tongue, of winch he had gi\en thorn a specimen that night in insulting Mr I lei hoi ( ; that he was afiaid, oi was it liis l)i ,w -beatiniTi or hie. hnlthcfuled, cia\en, eowaidly inuondos '' No ; he was not ntiaid ot tliese things, and he would come to the fiont and spc.de us he had done beloio, and would do so again in hi-> lights. it wits not in Mr Browns nature to be The se<-iet of his .succes-. in that* distnet had been thiough biow beating the public and hounding down j>ii\ate individuals. ((ireut in tct ruption. ) Mi .lames C hahnci s i.^o excitedly fioma seat m the fiont ot the hall, and said, " It's <i lii^ ; it's a lie.'" Mi Biown charged Mi Byrne with insult ing I he meet ing. Mi Byiue: lie had not insulted the public. Mr Biown: You ha\e. through me. I would not have spoken thus, but toi the gioss attack this man has mudo on me. What has he done"' lie lias not helped us in the past. \\ h\ , that man that is there now, is ho a good citi/cn when he dechued befoic the public that he gloried in the [ assassination ot Burke ''. Mr Byrne : It. is a lie, sir i I .say it's a lie, and I as-k the Chan man's protection. Another c ccUir wanted to add i ess the meeting, which iof used to hear him. intimately the amendment was put and car- [ riod.

M.iorio, those who liavo acquired somo knowledge of t.he English language especially, afloat an mti- j male aequ .intunce with Anglo-Saxon j " cu-!>s words." They consider thai the moio extended i^ their profane vocabulary <he mure accomplished they will be re-] gauled a^ Enulinh linguists. Tims they soi/c eveiy opportunity, such as the smallest provocation of temper, to pom foiLh for the ediiieation of bystandorsa torrent of o.iths, stringing together in the most promiscuous slyly on cry naughty British word they can call to mind, utterly regardless of its idiomatic connection with the object of theirobjuigntoryrage. An amusing story comes to me tiom thy Upper Thames district, where a Maori working in a potato Hold the other day had his bare foot tioddcn on by one of the tanner's woiking hoiso. The oul.i.vgod aboriginal, as ho danced about on ono log with agony, aavc \ent to the most fearful English Billinghgato ho could command, but experiencing the truth oi the old adage that hard word's break no bones, thoollbnding plough hor.so, protected by his European driver from physical malttcatment, coolly stood in the plough furrow sloopUy blinking his eyes. Tho calm domcanour ofihe animal added to tho fury of tho native, until at la.*b having exhausted his pretty comprehensive stock of bail language, he mu*>t have fancied himself a member of tho "model Parliament," for he yelled out ab he rushed up to the patient and unheeding beast of labour and shook hi -a tiht under lu\ nose, " You're a liar !" " ZAMiKh ' in Auckland Star.