THE ELECTION.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4841, 15 July 1884, Page 2

THE ELECTION.

{To the Editor, of the- Erenine Star.) . Sjb,—lfc is not always true "that in a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom, and .the reverse may sometimes be the case; but generally in a multitude of words there is folly, and often something worse. In. the speech delivered at the 'Academy.of Music last night the first was most oohspieious by its absence, and the second needed no magnifying lens to discover—but the chief characteristic of it was most assumedly Speight, and never was.the old saying, viz., that au empty cask keeps most noise, mor© fully verified. The question is ndt what Mr Speight's lifa has been, but what has he done, either locally of politically, to entitle him to represent us. I know of no single action that should create a desire in that directi&n., In; the local Councils be has certainly not been a success. In charges entrusted to him he has not shove brightly, or one Thames paper to-day would have had a much large? circulation, , and the shareholders would have bad mt»ch legs cause to mourn. In Parliament ho w«8 a failure absolutely, and the only success I ever heard of his accomplishing was more than half emptying I he House in less than five minutes after commencing to speak—alj the influence he ever had then, was nil, and such will be the result again, if he is elected. I intend, in a few short letters to criticise utterances, but as ypur spice is small, for the present, enough.—l am, Ac,

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