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Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 943, 9 July 1878, Page 2

TAMAHERE RIDING REPRESEN- j TATION. [Advt.] Sib,— l precieve by Mr Leslie's incoherent production in your issue of the 6th inst., that he has injudiciously resorted to a line of argument, whfth once upon a time held good in some parts of the world, especially when an intimate knowledge of a certain vocabulary obviated the necessity of any hesitation — I mean scurrilous invective interspersed with choice epithets," with an inclination to nde roughshod over any person who may hold different views, if they will only camly submit jto the operation. Such like traits and accomplishments unmistakably point out the real gentleman j hig pretentions in. this respect are indisputable and entitled to some consideration, but when Councillor Leslie presumes to seb himself up as a monitor to correct other people's English it gets beyond a joke. He onght to have had recourse to the dictionary at hia elbow before correcting my use of the word "nominee," and immediately after proving beyond doubt that Mr Clark was his nominee. Asa rule it does not make the stain of blue Wqocl any purer by looking too closely into antecedents, and those who can least alford it are generally the most reckless. Speaking- generally (bar cattle lifting), it is just possible that I could go so far back as Councillor Leslie, before coming to any ancestors who had been shortened by a head, or may have dropt suddenly from an elevated position, thereby causing injuries which may have cut short a promising career. I will leave the closer investigation of this matter optional with Councillor Leslie. If he thinks it would be conducive to the interests of Tamahere, I am willing. Councillor Leslie's remarks about his men display considerable ingenuity in twisting anything to suit certain ends. A man who can boast of being able to return any one he pleased for the Riding of Tamahere mmt have a good many pocket votes besides the two or three householders referred to. If they wait until any disparaging reflections are cast upon them by me, a much less redoubtable champion will suffice for ths vindication of their honor. With regard to social position and other succh matters, anyone having the slightest pretension to being a gentleman would not be guilty of dragging them up (I suppose, by way of argument) in the discussion of an important public question. It is, in Councillor Leslie's case, very injudicious. The less he touches on those matters the better, but perhaps associations in another colony may have blunted a sense of honor, and may have also given rather an inflated and erroneous idea of social status. The less a man possesses of anything the loader you will generally find him sounding his own trumpet. I have no commodity that I wish to exchange or dispose of, so this is not with a view of depreciating what another fancies he possesses. I would not presume to say that my word was as good as Councillor Leslie's, even with a reliable witness to bear me out. There is an evident disposition to shut out or ignore the truth. It may at times be inconvenient and disagreeable, bat it does not require bolstering up like the opposite article. It does not require one to be very quick in apprehension to see whether the shoe pinches. A pet scheme has miscarried, and another substituted which will not entail the necessity of flattering the vanity of or falling down to worship the Great Mogul, with a very humble, " Please, sir, may I go in," without which sacrifice no chance of bein^ elected. One can sympathise with and pardon a slight ebulition of temper when such realities in the way of homage are likely to be turned to shadows — when, in fact, all that a man politically holds clear is slipping from his grasp. The picture is too dreadf ul ; let us change it. The whole tenor of Councillor Leslie's letter is simply and literally twaddle, except what is grossly personal. His random shot about the bridge petition is very wide of the mark. I neither drafted the petition nor procured a signature thereto, but, if I had, there is nothing to be ashamed of. Not being like the Tamahere one, the bridge petition carried truth #a the face of it. What I said or meant to convey at the meeting on the 28th ultimo was not that. " anyone can be got to sign a petition," but that it is a very easy matter to obtain signatures to a petition, especially if the . representations, . when solicitingsignatures, are as false as part of the subject matter of the petition itself. It is a great pity that the clisoussion of matters connected with our public cluties as councillors could not be carried on without entailing so much illfeeling and gratuitous abuse. The public will have no difficulty in saddling the onus of instituting this state of things to where it belongs. In moving in the matter of dividing Tamahere, I fervently believed, and do so still, that it would benefit the ratepayers if the riding was done away -with. From any of them with whom I had an opportunity of conversing about the matter, the reply was : " We cannot b3 worse off than we are at present." Might I ask what has Councillor Leslie— the Simon Pure representative— done for tho Tamahere Riding since his connection with it. Has he not consistently been to all intents and purposes a Cambridge ' representative? Looking at evevythin"that can possibly be taken into considera° tion, I am thoroughly convinced that the small Riding of Tamahere would be, in every way, the gainer by losing its individuality, and being annr/sed to two important and go-ahead ridings. As this question ha3 been, I think, fully discussed in all its bearings, so far as any public interest, can be served, I am quite willing to pay. for any space I may require. If Councillor Leslie wishes to reply, and goes in for bounce, bluster, bravado, and Billingsgate, for which he is so justly celebrated, he may take my silence as an acknowledgment of hia superiority. — I am, &c, War. Cumjiixg. P.S.— lf Councillor Leslie is willing 1 to apologise for his. illbred, unmannerly remarks, I trust there is suffloient of Christian forbearance is my character to enable me to hold out the hand of fellowship in return, and to accord him a measure of encouragement and support either as. a councillor or a neighbor.— W C

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