The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4020, 16 November 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1881.

This evening the ratepayers of the Thames County will know to whom the management of the County business will be entrusted for the next three years. Considerable excitement has been caused by the various addresses, and numerous committee meetings of the gentlemen who wish to adorn the Thames County Council Chamber. To a certain extent the election of Councillors for the before mentioned County, is comparable to the contest in which the people's choice is requested for a member of the House of Kepresentatives —one, in whom they will be able to place confidence and reliance, and who will do everything in his power to conserve the interests of his constituents, and of the colony at large, in preference to aggrandising himself. The ratepayers of the Thames County have had a good posse of candidates to select from, and we shall naturally expect them to exercise their usual discretion in choosing their reprer sentatives. If they consider that new blood would be advisable, they will no doubt show a substantial proof of their judgment by electing new members. If, on the contrary, they are of opinion that the members who have served them during the past term deserve another chance, such will be bestowed upon them. So it is with the House of Kepresentatives. But there, it is not a question of fhe management of a few paltry acres of land, but is one involving the destinies of the colony, and the whole population. In this case, would the electors of the Thames show their good sense by electing as their champion, a man whose conscience fits him so easily, that he could perjure himself politically and morally without any feeling of shame? No. For in controlling the country's destiny, men are needed who have some higher scruples, than that of attempting to ingratiate themselves with parties directly opposed in religion, politics, and general principles, for the mere sake of political influence.. Such men are not likely to receive the mantle of Elijah, except it be from men who make up in solidity what they lack in intellect. The people should recollect that it is not oratory or rhapsody that form the essential point in a statesman, but the possession of that good sense and able reasoning powers, without which the most verbose member is but a waster of public time by his senseless garrulity.