DRIVEN LIKE SHEEP TO THE POLLING BOOIHS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1121, 30 August 1879, Page 2

DRIVEN LIKE SHEEP TO THE POLLING BOOIHS.

Sir, — As a Waikato man, my blood boiled when 1 road your telegram this morning from Auckland, that tho Central Greyite Election Committee m that city, had determined to run certain Greyite candidates for certain country districts, and had selected Mr Cunningham for Waipa, and thrown Mr Roche overboard. Sir, has it come to this, that the electors of Waipa are to be treated li-,- o so many children, told Avho they are to vote for and allowed no exercise of thejr own will or judgment ? Is this liberalism ? Is it even f reedqrq ? Sir George Grey and -his admirers, are always preaching tho deUvorattQo of the yooplQ <rf Now &ahu*4

from the possible growth of a bastard aristocracy; and Sir George Grey ia yearning to deliver the colonists from even the shadow of the thraldom of old feudal and aristocratic oppressions existing at home. But this inquisitorial and arbitrary interference of the Central Greyite Election Committee is something more than the powers exercised by landlords under the old rotten borough system, prevailing m Great Britain previous to the Reform Bill. If this be liberalism, Heaven help New Zealand from the wolves m sheep's clothing, who, under such a guise, tamper and interfere with •the very foundation of our constitutional rights — the privilege of choosing our own representatives. — Elector, Te Awamutu, August 28th, 1179.