The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1886. POPULAR IDOLS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2441, 1 November 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1886. POPULAR IDOLS.

A few years ago the popular idol of Wellington was Mr William Hutchison. The democrats of the Empire City gave him a full measure of support, and whothar be sought to represent them in tba Mayoral chair or the House of Representatives, no other candidate bad a chance against him, Mr Hutchison was loyal to bis party, and in season and out of season worked hard for his deraocratio friends, At length a new friend of the people came to the front, and the fiokk mob that had hurrahed for Hutohison aa the people's friend deserted him almost <m mam and gave their suffrages to bis ■younger rival Mr G, Fisher. For no fault of bis own Mr William Hutchison had to resign bis civio and legiulative crown and make room for the new popular idol. Mr George'Filher in bia turn has bad it all hie own way with the democrats of Wellington for the past three or four years, and like his predeoessor has not spared himself in working for the interests of his constituents, He has bean a capable representative, courageous, honest, and outspoken, and if the tide is now turning against him as it turned with his predecessor the fault does not lie at his door.. We have said that Mr fieorge Fisher is outspoken, and he has not disguised his opinion of the cloud which is now apparent on biß horizon, Last .week he declared that his oarty wanted a new man "if be were only a wax doll." Mr Fisher evidently ' realizes now what it is to be a popular idol, and what is the dominant sentiment of the democrats who have placed him in power, and who are now deserting him. He has been the doll of the Wellington people, and possibly if he has been content to' be a kind of 'indiarubber doll he might be dandled by.his constituents for some while longer. Although many of Mr Fisher's.' supporters are now deserting him, the time will no doubt come -when the popular breeze will again-blow in his direction. He has made bis mark as

a public man ■in Wellington, mid at the present time with or without a popular majority, he is the most capable and reliable loader, of public opinion in the Empire City,' The party with which he has been associated may be .ficklfi, but this very quality of fickleness will cause it to revert to him on some-future occasion when it wearies of its new idol. Mr Fisher, will we feel sure, though his party may not remain true to him, continue true to himself, and as long as this is the case, he will, whether in oice or out of it, exercise a beneficial influence on the administration ot publio affairs in tho city of Wellington. He evidently is weary of playing a part as a popular idol and his future career as a publio man will possibly be not altogether on popular lineß. He has served an apprenticeship to the people, and has at length realized tho valne to be attached to their support. He will probably again on some future occasion receive the suffrages of the democrats, but he will obtam it on his own terms and not on the popular basis. The undisguised contempt which he has expreßded for a section of his late supporters ought to teach the democrats of Wellington a lesson.