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Temuka Leader, Issue 1635, 17 September 1887, Page 2

r H 0 LLEB T 0 N WILL « ' ADDRESS THE ELECTORS OF IHS RAN GI 1A T A D ISTRICT A* WOODBURY, : on . Saturday, 1 sEptEMBEfe 17m ' At TEMUKA (VOLUNTEER HALL) ON’ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st. At GERALDINE, ON-SA TURD AY, SEPTEMBER 24th. Meetings in every case at 7.30 p.m. «e!5 MR F R A N K;S the Working-Man’s Candidate will nrldress the Electors of Gladstone in CARSTON’S ASSEMBLY BOOMS, at WINCHESTER, on SATURDAY EVENING, the 17th Instant, at half-past I aeveo. • ■ s«l7

xo THE BLEOTOBB Off. OLADSIOHE. -ENTLEMEN-, \j3f to you to look upon the present contest from a right and wrong point of view. Some of you are oppoied to me—it i« only natural that.you should—but lam persuaded that political bias has not deprived yon of a sense of self respect, or stifled your mitinoti of justice and fair play. When I entered upon the contest I determined on conducting it in a manner that would leave ae little bitterness behind it a« poisible, and to do my opponent* lull justice with regard to reporting their speeches in my papers. I have adhered to this as far as possible. I have been attacked at my meetinge, ind had to defend myself, but no one can accuse me of having struck one blo w below the belt. In my first speech I never mentioned the name of any of the other candidates, and I raised no dais cries.. At any of my subsequent meetings 1 said nothing about Mr Abodes exoeptto refer in the mildest and most respectful manner possible to a few points in bis speech. The majority of the electors have now heard mo speak, and they will not hesitate to beat testimony to this fact. Readers of my papers mnet also admit that Mr Rhodes has been treated in their columns with great consideration, and tbacnot oneunfair or disrespectful word concerning him has been published. His speech was reported so that itread ten times better than it reallywas, and its subject matter has scarcely been commented upon sine Now, how have I been treated P The reports given of my first speech in the Timaru papers were simply disgraceful. I never read any worse attempt at reporting in all my experience, and it is now currently rumored that the reporter* had instructions to turn tor meeting into ridicule. They did so, so far a i decency would allow them. Language which I never used was put into my month, and incidents were recorded which never happened. The short reports given in the Herald, of my meetings at Albury, ffairlio Creek, and Burke's Bass, were fair and honest, but everywhere else I have been completely misrepresented. Mr Rhodes says .now hie .paid Secretary and the reporter of the Timaru Herald aro one and the same person, and this may account for soms of the injustice. In addition to this, anonymous letters and articles have fr< quently appeared in the Timaru papers and Christchurch Press in which I have been held up to ridicule I have so far taken no notice of these because I thought they were all the work of one man whose enmity to me is well known, and that it would be unfair to put (hem down to Mr Rhodes himself. I bad hopes (hat sooner or later Mr Anodes would protest against his followers resorting to this style of fighting an election, but to my great astonishment he took the whole responsibility on his own shoulders last Saturday morning by cironla* ting a broadsheet which here his own name, and into which most of the abuse hitherto published had been collected. Now, gentlemen; I cannot afford to go into (his style of argument. Whatever the result of the election may be I shall have to live amongst you and it therefore becomes necessary for me.to retain your reepeot if Ido not secure your electoral confidence. Mr Rhodea has, 1 am told, an immense income, and osn do what he likes. What is virtue in the rich is vice in the poor. L«t Mr Rhodes' conduct be what it may he will still have flatterers, hot if I were to descend to a eimilar level I would bo called very ugly names. Besides, Mr Rhodea, whether elected or not, will leave here and live in Ohrutchurch, and will not he seen here again for perhaps three years. In this respect therefore the contest is unequal. I have a character to maintain, anil cannot afford to follow Mr Rhodes into the lower depths of Billingsgate. With regard to "Cold Tea’s" letter I must say a word. Mr Rhodes said at Hilton it was written by his Oommittee, la the paper he has circulated it is said it was nor written by the Committee but by one of Mr Rhodes’ supporters, who sent it to Mr Rhode*’ paid beoretary to insure its in* sertion. There is a discrepany between the two., statements, but ret that pa s Then Mr Rhodes’ paper says. ''.Let ns have the truth out about the answer to Mr Ley’s letter once and lor all.”- Very well. On the 17th of August Mr Joseph Ashwtll, Mr Rhodes’ paid secretary, brought to my office a letter written in his own handwriting, and "lathered” by one of Mr Rhodes’ supporters. This letter was insetted. Liter on another man brought in the letter signed "Cold Tea,” and (hie also was in Mr Ashwell’s handwriting. The facts that there was a meeting of Mi Rhodes' Committee on the previous evening, that both letters were in the • handwriting of his Secretary, and that Mr Rhodes said at Hilton they were written by his Committee, do not harmonistwith the second-thought assertion in Mi Rhodta’ paper. However, the charge against, me is, that "Cold Tea’s” letter was not inserted, and my reply is that I had not time to write the , nec-*sary footnote to it. On the 18th, I published the. letter brought to my i.ffiae by.Mr Ashwell ;on the 19th, I war away in Timaru all day ; on the 20th, I addressed a m’ee log at Winchester j the 21it was a Sunday j on the 22nd, I aduressed a meeting,at the Washdyke, and on the 23rd, I left,early in the morning for Albury. Curing this interval of time, I had to attend to my ordinary bnsinees, and prepare my speeches, and it.appeers tp ffl* that the public Will see that my time was pretty well pepu pied. Now all Mr Rhodea Mouses me of is that 1 did not. insert this letter, and because I . have said 1 bad not time' to ■ attend to it he as much as calls me a liar. Let the people now judge for themselves,' J)i)V I must say that 1 feel I hare conducted the p*sp»ig well, when this charge constitutes the bead and front of my offending. Y,nrttruly,' - - ' J. 11, IwOMaT. Temnka, September 12, 1887,