THE ELECTIONS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1126, 21 November 1873, Page 3

THE ELECTIONS.

( To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sir, —"Where or when will this all L end ? Mr O'Conor solicits the sym- ' * pathy of his townsmen in consideration of his demerits, and hopes to obtain the support of the electors on no other grounds than a blind retaliation against Mr Curtis. Electors, beware ! do not give too much license to your just indignation—bo cool! We generally repent at leisure what we do in haste, and especially so it done in anger. Be not led away by the unreasoning and inconsistent mob, nor intimidated by the threats of unprincipled partizans in the cause of O'Conor. If Mr Curtis has, like the creators of Frankenstein, produced the irrepressible O'Conor, so O'Conor has in his turn produced the other person —Mr Blackall Shapter —who it must be confessed stands forward as a worthy representative of the migratory portion of these goldfields, after a very short and unsettled residence amongst us. "While his opinions upon local or provincial subjects are unknown, if he ever had any, unjaundiced by party prejudices, without tho slightest claim to public notice ho is thrust before this constituency upon the popular and doubtful ticket of his Chief O'Conor, and we are told forsooth " he is for O'Conor, so vote for him." This young man, Shapter, has long sailed under false political colors, but never, so conspicuously as last night, where under pretence of addressing the electors as a candidate for the Provincial Council, he tried to out-Herod Herod, and exhausted the patience of even an O'Conor audience by an incoherent and uniutelligable jumble of figures and law, to prove that his Chief was immaculate, and Mr Curtis the political charlatan. Poor young man ! His zeal is certainly within Ins years if beyond his discretion, and I fear he has made bad use of even his short visit here, if he imagines that such a display of partisanship will command for him the permanent respect of the Westport public as a Provincial Councillor.—l am, &c, Mutatok.