THE MAYORAL ELECTI ON.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I think it would have been more judicious in' the Mayor's frieud, "Burgess,,' to have let well alone. He (the Mayor) has attained the height of his ambition, but to blazon it forth to the world that he is the people's choice, &c, &c, is simply absurd, and calculated to mislead. lam not positively certain of who the Herald 1 s correspondent is, but the the telegram, although perhaps unpleasant to some parties, was nevertheless true in every particular, air Jackson had consented, and would have been nominated, and, doubtless, have been elected by a large majority. If you can believe half of what you hear, the slight deficiency in the amount of rates required to qualify was not ascertained until it was too late to look up another man, candidates for the office not being readily picked up. Unless "Hobson " and the burgesses' choice are synonymous terms, " Burgess" would have done well to pause ere indulging in such a tirade of gratuitous abuse on the one hand, aud fulsome adulation on the other. — I am, &c, Veeitas. [We see no "tirade of gratuitous abuse" nor any " fulsome adulation" in "Burgess' " letter published on Saturday. —Ed,]
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Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1207, 23 March 1880, Page 2
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204THE MAYORAL ELECTION. Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1207, 23 March 1880, Page 2
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