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Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1893.

°P We hear that prohibition sympathisers in.this district are earnest in an , intention t,Q ask the JBov, L, M, leitt 1 to stand for this elipiorale, and wo j should not regret to see such a jrian returned for this or .any other constituency, not because be is a prolii«r bitioqistpr a profound thinker or era a logical speaker bujb simp); because lie is a pure minded, honest and out $ spoken man : , Members of this oaljbre are not over plentiful in tl)e House, and we .question whether they are ' numerous enough to keep politics , ■ sweet, In iha present parliament, and in previous parliaineptp,tl)erp are and hare been, as most people know, men who bear a hideous reputation ' for moral leprosy, men of whom terrible tales have been wbißped, and yet these men for the site of their votes and their ability and; as> eurahcßHß parliamentarians have not : only'been tolerated, but have been j courted and petted by thej: higbejt ] \ people in tliß land. There has not i j, been a sutßcieDt strength of honest ' 1- outspoken men in the Mouse to make j so it a pillory for tioious intruder!. | °' Therefore a; man like Mr ,lalt, t ~ wlie'therhe happened to be of the right 1 ' colour or the wrorig,>whether i.'e ' "', persisted in hia prohibition craßade or} ? dropped it,, would tend to raise the j level of political morality and would ' j do good service for New Zealand, At!

thesametime slionldibß SHrp'ri'sed to aee Mr Tsitt coming forward for anyconeiituency. Ho has mi asaorptl status in the Wesleyan Ministry which carrieslwith it ;a small but' certain income for nil his time, and to jieril this for the sake of a sent in the House; would not be an act of prudence, At the same time we are glad to Bee electors netting their faces towards men of known probity and of tried integrity and asking them to come forward, -;We like to see men with their' faces towards the light in politics, and- would sooner ourselves support a candidate for Ijis intrinsic worth as n man, than for his party colour. We have no partioular faith in working men candidates, because the best working men usually stick to their work and don't run after the loaveß and fishes of political preferment; but we would certainly sooner see a decent labourer in Parliament, than an immoral or dissolute person occupying an ostensibly higher position,. If, in the coining struggle, party lines become somewhat obliterated in an effort to purify the House, the Colony will be the gainer,

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4437, 6 June 1893, Page 2

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Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1893. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4437, 6 June 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1893. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4437, 6 June 1893, Page 2

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