MR R. THOMPSON AND THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 224, 17 November 1893, Page 5

MR R. THOMPSON AND THE GENERAL ELECTION.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In Mr Thompson’s address to the electors of Te Kopuru, yo-ur issue of 27th inst reports him as saying, Me went to Wellington to get ivhat he could for his district, he took no further interest in politics than that, he cared not a fig for anything else. Sir, to me who has voted for Mr Thompson on both of the former elections this seems a most unfortunate assertion to make, and most degrading not to say libeling to the Mar.sden electors. It may be the estimate that Mr Thompson makes of himself that he is only fit to collect the crumbs that fall from the groaning table of the treasury and to scatter them amongst his constituencies, but it is not, it, cannot be the highest aspirations of the Marsden electors to have a man with such principles to represent them, I know a large Dumber of the Marsden e ectors who d sire our member to go to Wellington to represent a policy that will be of benefit not only to Marsden, but to the whole Colony, and loath the idea that our member should go branded, self-branded, as ‘ The man that carries the bag.’ What the Marsden electors really want is a politician who will represent their political ideas and they are not so corrupt as to be satisfied entirely with a man of no policy of his own, and who is unwilling to represent theirs. I am sorry Mr Thompson makes such an estimate of himself and his constituents, and still more sorry that he has lot the cat out of tiie bag in such a public and ugly man ner —I am etc. As Elector.