THE COMING ELECTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2335, 28 June 1887, Page 2

THE COMING ELECTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR. Siu,—Since my last letter on this subject I see that Mr Russell has held a Public meeting in Hamilton, to which the ladies were invited, but had the good sense not to attend, and in his opening remarks refers to my statement that he had come forward uninvited and without a requisition. Although challenged by me to publish the names of those who had requested him (as he stated in his printed address) to come forward as she representative of the Waikato Electors ! he has not dared to do so. although I am told a flowery (or floury) supporter of the would-be member had" a very bad quarter of an hour with him, because, although willing to support him in a quiet way, he would not allow his name to be held up for the contempt of his fellow electorsMr Russell now considers " a requisition over a large electorate as an entirely unnecessary expense, etc., etc." Well in my ignorance of the way in which Mr Russell would go about getting up a requisition for himself, I never contemplated that he would have to pay the electors for signing it ; therefore I did not expect it to cost him anything but the publishing of the names, and the very few names he could get to a requisition for him to come forward against Mr J. B. Whyte would not cost more than a few shillings. Therefore that excuse will not hold water. But, like most colonial "quack politicians" he immediately changes his ground and informs us that, " an influential party of electors at Te Aroha, urged him to come out for Waikato ? ' So he had (if this statement is true) to go to the extreme borders of the electorate to find any person to requisition him to stand for Waikato ! And what do they know of Mr Russoll at Te Aroha, or of the requiremennts of Waikato, that they 'should choose him, above all others, to represent the electorate of Waikato, of which as I write .1 am informed they do not form any part, having been tacked on toTauranga? lam afraid "the influential party" will be found to be as mythical as the "respectable electors of Waikato" who have no names to give except at some expense to the would-be member. I quite exonerate Mr Russell from the charge he so vigorously repels of having " thrust himself on the constituency" and I will go further and promise 011 his behalf that he never will do so. The worst that can bo said about him will be that he tried to do it: and when Waikato wants a man of large self-esteem, with " a gift of the gab" to re present it, and with 110 other qualificationI will myself "sign the requisition to Mr Russell. Until then I am, —Yours truly, " AN Eleciok OF Wi tKAio.