SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3642, 18 October 1890, Page 2

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1890.

When a local tonsorial artist was engaged some three weeks ago in trimming the points of a couple of our political fighting cocks, we imagined that the campaign of 1890 was commencing, but when it transpired that the polling day would he deferred till December, it was found convenient, to put off the war paint for a while, and hang up the brush and comb. The period between then and now, which we expected to be lively, has been deadly dull, and it was not till Thursday that an incident occurred which showed that anything ai all was going on. A little episode has at last relieved the political stagnation, and set going the electoral tongue, It wjll be remembered that at tho outsat of the election fray the chief attraction of the show.was to be , a fight to a finish, a sort of vendetta 1 between those celebrated Corsiean brothers, A, W.'Hogg a.id W.,W. McC'ardle. That the quarrel between thpso liberal lions was earnest and bjtter e'yerybftdy recognised, because whoir Liberals do'happen (p hate one another they make no pretence of disguising their feelings. In this instance did not Mr McOardle from .the public platform, with wrathful eye and manly bosom swelling with indignation, reproach Mr Hogg with having deserted I'lim',' And did not Mr Hogg, by the publication of anonymous letters, prove that Mr McCaraio was no better than he should be, and by direct article intimate that he had a rod, in pjpjfle for him, and that the said rod was labelled ii-' flanpyism." Now, if jt were possible Ip'ijiiagp tho feelings of ft Mastertqn au<&n,c,e, after paying for'admlssion, to see, say an encounter Blavin and 81ade, discovering these ta ohao> • pious kissing one another and slobbering over each other, instead of punching" each fltjiers heads, we might possibly guage tha jravailing sent!ment of disgust which Vtlri;ifi.B jtpjn ' flfthfiMastertou electors wh'en'tiiey > s.eefepMcflardleiand.Hogg pip : down This ,j exhibition is regarded m i cruel, heartless; gnd perfidious de- i monstration. Their have ; been laying money on thorn and pitting ono'against: the other, and , talking about the stand-up light that , was to come off, and here the precious i pair appear before -the'' electors as ' bosom "friends I Of course it is now j assumed that both of them will not , go .to tho poll, and .''the public are ■ anxious to know s#hjs to be Hie J retiring candidate. They are not j

.quite coutain wlidlheL* ihoy will' find, "us all at onoo, as they tliinl; the tmie fdt tho withdrawal will be a bit I "of electoral strategy; and that possibly | boll) will keep before the public to prevent any other undesirable person coming into. |ho-ficl(l." It U rather expected Mr : Hogg will be the"in'ari who will not go to the poll,,and we have hid some reason from the first 'p : doubt his; candidature, In due time Messrs McCavdle and Hogg'.will possibly explain the position,-.or as much of it as they may deem it prudent for the public to know, A crisis has occurred, and a.re-arrango-montofsomokindor other effected, Whether the Liberal party has beon shaken up in a,hat, or whether a transfer of a part or whole of it has been arranged we know not, all we can be certain of is that tho new arrangement, v/hatovor it may be, and whether it will be good' for the Liberal party or not, will be to the advantage of Mr McCardle, and for the benefit of Mr Hogg. If one or the other of those patriots has agreed to Butvender his claim, it is snfe to assert that lie will receive some consolation for the sacrifice he lias to make. After all' the talk and fun about candidates it is quite possible, that as yet Mr Geo. Beetham is the only candidate who is really pledged to go to the poll for the Masterton district. If so, the Liberal party had better look out for a respectable man ,' tp-repre'sent its interests in the pre- ' sent election. " •