The Bush Advocate. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25. THE ELECTION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 863, 25 November 1893, Page 2

The Bush Advocate. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25. THE ELECTION.

By the time another i6su« of this paptr is in the hands of our readers the great electoral campaign, which has plunged New Zealand into a state of excitement, will be more than half over. What the result of the election will be is beyond even the wisest to predict with any certainty. The conditions are vastly different to what they have ever been before. The multiplicity of candidates and the exercise of the female vote render idle any speculation as to who will be the elected of tha people. In this district, as elsewhere, it would be extremely difficult to decide the knotty point. The various candidates have placed their views fairly before the electors, and the choice is now in their hands. Wa do not. intend to review their political utterances with tha objtct of influencing the people at large in tbeir eelection, but we feel bound to state our opinion that if either of the Woodville candidates are elected Danevirke may be a heavy sufferer. Mr Carlile openly declares bis intention of usinp his strongest efforts to hays the terminus removed to Woodville. Wa respect him for his outspoken statement. He stands to his guns and is prepared to take the consequences. With regard to Mr Hall there is little doubt in our mind that if the question of the removal of the terminus is raised at any time he must support the Woodville people in their object, or stand convicted of insincerity. At the time of the agitation about the removal of the sheds Mr Hall was one of the mest active opponents. Ha was loyal to the town in which he resided and in which he has his interests. He was one of tbe deputation to interview tbe Commisi sioners, and the columns of the Post bear witness to the strength of his feelings upon tho matter at that time. We do not blame hira for that, but how can ha retreat from that position and come here and tell the people he will not work to have the terminus removed. We cannot swallow that at any rate. If the people of Danevirke are so silly as to vote against their own interests they cannot say afterwards that we did not warn them.