CORRESPONDENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2705, 20 September 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

IffifISOTWAHED.

[to Tiie editor wairarapa daily.] Sir,r-As there aro only afow do before the election I would like to a fow words ,to my settlera and to the working ihen of the distriot. I am not pretending to advise tbep),. but only putting down ■some thought! which bavo ociu't?s.tp me,,.,. We have, as. allkriovc;' candidates, Messrs BfietliiiiU| Hdgg ;au;|, Mr J&awkiiis has too.ohaniej worth : writing about. Mr our old member, is known tol'fiverj-l body f# during which he has bcen-our : tr'u'ej', manly and faithful member. " He his '.. worked for us in many ways; he' iS A : - gentleman, by ;which .I moaivthaf' Ktfii'. an honest stra igb tto r war J mail, not' thtflf, he is simply well dressed arid hats'' money in his pocket. No one ever knew Mr G.- Beetham do a dirtyvor { mean trick, slander his neighbor,-tell a lie or take advantage of any man. He is a man and we all know hitri, andlbia brother members know him ~.and .held-•' him in respect and it ia a credit., to 4&^ r district when it. is representedbyivfi'S man that is respected.. But what::do; ! ; we know of'this Mr Hogg? W.e know:-* he is very noisy and just deal of talk about what ho vvill the working man, whom he seemsflSl auddeu .to have grown very fond of. But what did lie ever do for the forking man 1 What did he ever do-for anyone but himself 1 Can-anyone tell ino.l, He has been editing a sort 'of 86%' paper hei'e for six or soven- years in it at one time or another he suited or bullied every class of the corp*. '." munity. He haH always'triod to stir" " 1 up quarrels and make.. bad - blood between friends and neiglihcrijle has • spattered his dirty mud At every pereoa that wears a .better coat -than' himself, and sheered in a • \ those; w'iio wear.a Sir, tliou'gli editor, it does,: net gfeW many of us that ho has jny cdufiatroa'- ?/ -' ; or has any real kuowiedgS; .Qf ; .?political • affairs. . from hisspeechesraiid'wrijtings, beoaase tber,e is : He;|etS;v.'j hold of a' few - sfetence's vfrotr book or speech -aiidJugsthem.jri and over . tlio c test of- bis ; - v '- - speeches and; writings. are jiist- abuse .<&-.• others..; Kow this countrvis in-a tnisai andwewatjt.educatodiuen.wlictfaeF-'" rich or poor, who: have., som^-.real knowledge' of; political "ruattora and. govemment,'. and something about trade and settieineUt'; Mr Hdgg only sfieins to InCw ;hpwH£ji#|}amo&'l. ; ap.d.'iry to. be funny.'; There is notliiug ■ ireally in him but Siioise and .;Bhow • off. Then we want a man-who-will 'be : respted in the; ; House, and • whose, word- will, bive .weigbji.-,:.. Pofra. anyone' think , a - uian...., ! like. Mr Hogg >wiil. have ~ any influence ? He will simply be a .4 hair in.tho tail of schemers,, 'liko Robfevt Stout and Sir; Julius Vogel, andJMr Hogg will only wag ..when . ...; those gentlemen choose to wag the remainder of the tail. - If we return , , him,'our Member -wjll'be known as.. , Stout's retriever or'handyman' to dfk, ' 'odd dirty jobs, % Hogg wants'» useua working people "to hoist ' into a position, and ..those who ever had dnalings witli hiin, kaow he cares only for ?<o. 1, and there is not a .» harder man in tho Wairaiapa, if ho has the whip hand ovei; you. I don't think Mr Hogg'knows §uite enough to gull,us, I hope hot,:at* lenat, for -we.,,., want quiet und ijood G'dvernment. We. •have had enough of-political agitators, .:. Wehavo had eaough jaW, jaw,jaw. ; - • 1 am, etc,, v Plououmaj... . . ; (To the ..Editor.) : Sir,-By chance I got hold of a . Star atid read Mr Hogg's'om report of ', his political tour- up the coast, in which he praisos Mr Roger's hospitality ® in the. .most poetical terms. Perhajis he got a little .too much of it, as tba- ... road must to "his fancy have turned round before him to leave Mr yjl.-...., lance's placeto his fight goiug up country, And did you over, hear one man tracking another by the same road a day before kito. AiisP • has., he not got a nice way of trying to butter his bread on both sides, and the. :. w<jy he - blows aboiit -his successful . . meo'tiiigs. } -suppose he thinks bewjsa... ~ popple don't tbfow- rotteri" eggs at liica.", . they aro such', fools to vote for hitn,'; • .The way he rttns Mr Beetham down no gentleman would be guilty .ofj and ' we want it gentleman to reprint us and not Hogg. ; •" i..

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