[ADVERTISEMENT.] WHY SHOULD WE VOTE FOR LAKE?

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1879, 22 July 1884, Page 2

[ADVERTISEMENT. ] WHY SHOULD WE VOTE FOR LAKE?

Because he comes forward at the request of the electors, not himself seeking office. Because he has no axe to grind, not even a pen-knife. Because he does not trim his sails to the popular breeze, but nails his colotus to the mast, and stands or falls by them like a man. Because those colours are your colours — the land for the people, and the settlement of the King country by a class of sturdy yeomanry rather than of squatters, runholders and land speculators. Because he is a man of independent means, independent mind, and above selling his vote for a billet, or being influenced against his conscience. Because he is just such another man a3 J. B. Whyte, honourable, upright, above any mean or dirty action either in or out of Parliament. Because ! Waipa and* Waikato represented by Lake 'and Whyte would return members who could work cordially together in the common- interests of the district. Men of the same high standard of character: ' l r ' ' T Becau.se, between Lalje and , Jackson you have to choose between ~a .man who once setired-fr^m.the r HouV;tj>j accept a lucrative appointment, and pne.whojiever during a nip* year^jresideiice inT Waikato