CORRESPONDENCE. MAJOR JACKSON'S CANDIDATURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1448, 13 October 1881, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. MAJOR JACKSON'S CANDIDATURE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib.— Major Jacksou has for four months been a candidate for the Waipa, and although canvassing, and seeking votes, he has never yet informed us what he is, or what he wants ; he has never told us anything that has been done, and ought to be undone, or anything that has not been, but should be. We are quite ignorant whether he is a G-reyite an Ormandite, or a Hallite. I don't imagine he is a Greyite. Greyites as a rule are thin men, thin from the want of sleep. They endure such agony thinking that other people are owners of Piako Swamps, and they don't think that it pulls them down in flesh. The major is fat so that he cannot be a Greyite. He cannot be an Ormandite. They are down on the property tax ; the major owns at' present no property, so he can have no ill will to the property tax. When he gets that 10,600 acres across the Puniu very likely he will then be an Ormandite. He cannot be a Hallite, because Mr Whitaker has beeu a true supporter of the present Government, and he could have no political reason for a change. It appears to me the gallant major is neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. Now for the major to imagine we are going to elect him purely because he is "the Major" is absurd. Why don't he address us, and tell us his views — what . would he do to better the 80,000 down trodden serf s ; would he have the Bible read in schools ; does he believe in an elective governor ; is he a republican ; or is he a supporter of' monarchy ; does he believe in John Stuart Mill ; does he think Church and State should be connected, or is he a voluntary; are the nihilists of Eussia murderers or patriots, arid a great many other subjects beyond my reach or ken, he might enlighten us upon. What is the major afraid of. We' would give him all leniency, and no matter what he said, how he said it, and even though his feelings got the better of him, and he was forced to stop in the middle of wha£hewa3 going to say, we would rush forward and shake 'hands with him, and tell him he was a jolly good fellow. Providence did not make me a poet. I have no reason to bo ashamed of that, nor has .the major any reason to be ashamed that providence did not fit him to be a bright and shining light in the House of Commons. Pr6yidence gives one one qualification' and another another. Providence s gave MMajorr r Jackson the power to be a brave, und fearless^ soldier, who cooW storm , », p^ah sword hand. Perhaps if Mr WhitakV^had to~ etor» a paVhe »'S hfc |aU d(>^. in a faint, although ho don't look' like i, oh»D of th»t

sorfc. Let the major ba content to be good and be loved. Better this than being great ; let him fit a sphere in which none are more able ; let him be a successful Bettler and rear fat bullookB ; be a judge at cattle shows; dispense justice as a. J.P., (his good and genial nature will always make him a merciful and lenient dispenser of justice) and fifty years after this, when he departs to his long home, he will, in the course of his Jong life have bo endeared himself, 'that amongst the 10,000 weeping followers who are following him to his long rest, amidst sighs and cries, the only remark will be, " Ah, we will never see his like again." Far better this, major, than your going to the House of Representatives, where you will b*e like a fish on , dry land. — I am, &c, Old Bob. Harapepe, Oct. 10th, 1881.

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