REPLY TO ANTI-HUMBUG

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 256, 4 September 1879, Page 2

REPLY TO ANTI-HUMBUG

To the Editor of the WAiiuiura, Daily

Your correspondent "Anti-Humbug" had rather more than a column of your paper to write up Mr Pharazyn and write down Mr Bunny, and I crave a small corner to reply. Befotc doing so I would point out to the electors the ntterlyabsurd arguments used by the supporter of Mr Pharazyn. As an instance of the style of argument as follows:—" Electors! remember you have elected Mr Pharazyn at the head of marly all local affairs, why not elect him to represent you in the General Assembly of the Colony." (The italics are mine.) Anti-Humbug says Mr Pharazyn occupies the hignest office in the Wairarapa and no one can say he does not administer them well." Now, in the first place the assertions are simply falsehoods. The words I have italicised above every elector knows to be untrue. Mr Pharazyn has not been elected at the head of nearly all local affairs, and never will be, He is not on the Featherston Road Board. The Featlierston people are his neighbors and that may account for the fact. But there are plenty of other offices ho will not be called upon to fill in the Wairarapa. Then with respect to AntiHumbiig Mr Pharazyn does not hold the ' highest offices' in the Wsirarapa, he does not hold any office to which Masterton has the privilege of voting. Anti-Humbug abuses Mr Bunny for something .which must be taken for what it is worth, seeing that it is an utterly insubstantiated assertion about matters belonging to a time long since dead and gone and that can be met by an unqualified denial, The arguments A. H, puts into the mouth of Mr Bunny's supporters about putting Mr B, in because he is po< r is one they have never used, and in fact is a very badly executed attempt to make' the electors helievo that Mr Pharazyn is a man of wealth, and Mr Bunny the reverse, and therefore wc should vote for the former.

Youi' correspondent then tries to pursuade us that Mr Bunny has no claim on account of tho Volunteer scrips, but this is another falsehood and reveals the ignorance of Anti-Humbug. He is evidently confounding the acti on taken in the General Assembly with that taken in the Provincial Council. If Anti-Humbug would like to know the fact let him apply to Mr Renal!, who can inform him, and enlighten his darkness somewhat, With regard to what he says of the roads and bridges and the other matters I will not trespass on your (-pace to reply, as the fuels of the case are too well known to do Mr Pharazyn any good, But the worst part of tho whole letter is the evident attempt to throw dust into the eyes of the electors by the remarks about Beetham and Pharazyn being in accord. For the district both Beetham and Bunny are in accord, and for the colony, if the working men cannot elect two of their own representatives, they are not going to disfranchise themselves to please Anti-Hum-bug. Fellow electors do not listen to the professions of Mr Pharazyn, but vote for Messrs Beetham and Bunny, put them at the head of the poll and let Mr Pharazyn come in at the end. If the electors laugh to scorn the efforts of paid electioneering agents, Mr Pharazyn will bo the greatest loser. Another Anti-humbug.