GOVERNMENT COWARDICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2707, 22 September 1887, Page 2

GOVERNMENT COWARDICE.

To the Editor Wairarapa Daily

Sir,—Until last night I had fully made ud my mind to vote for Mr Hogg I' do not profeßS to be very fond of that gentle•man or to believe in him very much, but I still intended to vote for him, because he was a Government supporter, and until very recently 1 believed in the Government. I now believe in tho Government no longer, I should vote for Mr Gr. Beetham. For some time past I confess that 1 have had suspicions the Government was not altogether what it pretended to be, and the complete shutting up at tfascby of Sir Robert Stout by Mr Scobie Mackenzie, and the Government refusing to supply trains for Wairarapa electors resident at Wellington, has now quite convinced me there is no backkne in Sir Robert Stout and no fairness in the Ministry. They are afraid, Sir, to put on trains because they know that most of the peoplo in Wellington will vote against them. A minister like Sir Robert Stout who cannot beat his enemy in a fair encounter, or Ministers who are frightened to fight out a fair Election fight must bo a poor lot and so, train or no train, you may expect to see at Masterton and to record his vote for Mr Beetham. A DisansTßD Elector,