THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 373, 29 November 1898, Page 2

THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The Governor lus conic and gone, and all must feel highly pleased at the manner in which the reception and entertainment were carried out, the thanks of the burgesses being especially due to the officers of the Hamilton Athletic Club for their firmness in preventing a gratuitous insult being < ffered to His Excellency by a small coterie of •' men of principle.'"' It is a great pity that men who pose as "educators of the people" and " leaders of thought" can become so lost to a sense of respectability and decency as to resort to bad manners and low-down tricks in order to parade their so-called principles before a public assemblage, not even hesitating to openly insult and sneer at the representative of the head of the nation —a nation to which they would, if they hud a spark of true manliness or patriotism in them, deem it a high honour and privilege to belong, and would do their utmost to inculcate similar feelings in others. They may not be able to agree with the form of government, and periiaps they would, prefer a president to an hereditaly monarch, bub that does not alter the case at all—monarch or president should by virtue of his office commaud the loyalty and respect of the people he is placed over, and i; is the bounden duty of the people to render him such homage. Had the little plot of Friday last been carried cue successfully, it would have had the effect of making the very name of Hamilton a by-word and a reproach from one end of the colony to the other. It is worthy of note that the men who strove to put this indignity upon us are not irresponsible parties, but men who aspire to the control of municipal a flair 3 and who are at present exceedingly busy in running a candidate for the highest ofiioo it is in the power of trie borough to bestow. Thounh I do not for a moment believe that the candidate in question would countenance such tricks as the one under notice, it would be well for the burgesses to remember the old adage, "If you mix with dogs you are b'tund to get flea';," for there "is no tolling what a little judicious pressure from the "men of principle" may not do under other circumstances. For the sake of the good name of Hamilton and common decency it it is to be hoped they or their nominee may never fill any public position in the Borough.—lam, etc., BoRGEStS.