FRANKLIN ELECTION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5709, 10 January 1876, Page 3

FRANKLIN ELECTION.

To the Kditor : Sir, — I sec my old fiicnd Mr. A. McDonald delivering himself in a m.inncr whu-h leads me to the conviction lh.it his old political sagacity is fast pissing aw.n, Without entei ing into .1 discussion of his aigumonts, I will, with your peimis.1011, ask him and my fellow elector-, of Fi.inlk.hn topi ve the subject of the pusent position of allairs their calm and can ful considciation, fiom a political point of view, leaving out for the present .ill questions of pe.son.il friendships and pcisonal interests. The eountiy districts desire to have local self-go\ eminent, with no go between them and the Ueneial (Government. Revenue is due to country districts because the city has been endowed with land, Provincial expenditure, and out of the half-million loan. Provincial Government has been of no benefit at all to the eountiy dibtiiets for someyeara, but rather the reverse— it has put in the iirst wedge of a bad system, vi/ . special provincial taxation in the shape of an unequal poll tax under the plea ot education. Now that the country is appe il to, t le policy most beneficial to the eountiy should be tried to be outlined, which oaght to ciubitcc: — 1st, unity of the colony; 2nd, one General Government ; 3rd, Dijtn.t Local Ad.niuistiuthe Government ; 4t'i, lrid fund c ilonial levenue ; 3th, nation.il ediu-i ti hi ; Oth, equal representation to Koith an I Sou tli ; 7th, tiieuiiial Parliament-.; .is agiinst : 1st, Insular Sepaiatiou : 'Jinl, rcsuPutiitiou of Piovmeial Gowi nine. its m some form or other. The^e aie tin 1 issiu •. hcfoic Fiauklin, and it is to 1>j Ii.>pud id coiiutiy suttleis will 1'e ihawnaw.iy t:om tliat I'o'isidv-i.ition bj .iii % \ amount "t ]/• uisibibty or 1111PS-.0111 cKi'tio.iucinii,'. The candid itis who rop'ese'it tii^ eountiy }> >hcy aie Mes-"--i. .1. May anil GoodiL'llo'v T!ie(!iey an 1 Sjpxr.it'on'i j { t aw .M' .-.im Hunlin and T(ii)!v. aiulMii.it \li. Wood w aid is ltnh-.id to si)'; Ins puliti'.il ciojd, .ib ununuialoil in Jus speeches, ha«id bills, .mi. I \aii>ustalUi with tho elector., their wives, bom and daughters, ajipcais to be made up of a sinatttimg fiom all sides and shadow o opinions, first one tiling n.i I then another, and t'le-i to suit liin putioular he.veis— in f.i'jt", lie becomes "all things to a'l men," pi uuibK 1 , .smooth, and thoioughfy incoiitii tent ; gives himself an o\oallciit ehTutir ; nevor tired of extolling his own qunl'lieations ; a fro trader to one elector ; fo an' fier a stiunch protectionist, and in the h i. in; way he airs 1 ir.nelf — first as a Cen'.ralist, then as a Provinci ilist, then a Separatiomst, then a follow e: of Sir George Grey. What he is at the present moment 1 do «ot know. His game is

to _,^t into the llouso by hook or 1>\ ciook, and thui, piobably, lu would show hid hand by iloing tlio \ cry best for himself daring the next h\o yea is 1 think, on the ■whole, the elector will bu obliged to consult their own mUitMs by having him in the hands ot h'x 1 utlitul Ho .tick hieiuK whom he boa^ta Jiolds him in great affection. So 1 will dismiss him and Iih claims. Of Messrs. May and Goodfcllow, v, ho aio men who can bo thoroughly depended upon, uhose political creed is in accoid with that of e\ery true eountiy settler elector, and then election will not now l)i« endangeicd by the semblance ot a split in the same political creed paity. Mr. H.unlin, repu renting the Miong policy, should not be -upjiortcd in consequence, however good a neighbour or jolly he may be. Lithe Pi ovincul Council he aimed at and obtained the Chairmanship of Committees, and took the pay, which, in my opinion, sapped ins pow ers of independence as «i country repiesentative. His coadjutor, H. II. Lusk, as townsman only, fowuig himself on the country settlers, should be rejected without the least remorse. What has he e\ er done to commend himself to the electors of Franklin, but receive Provincial salaries, travelling expenses, and some very fair amounts for law chaiges '' He has made provincial! sin pay him m the past His figures me eiioneous and completely onesided. Hid only clc\eineba hitherto has been shown in Ins obnoxious poll-tax inthction. Hamlin and Lusk as agimst Ma}' and Goodfellow, should stand nowhere. Sir George Giey has just said, ami -aid so befoie,he will confoim himself to the politics of the people. Then let Franklin ele< tors show him unuiistakeably what tin 1 pohcj of the people is by sendinginMessis .1. Ma\ and\V. Goodfellow, who will hail him as their leader with the utmost satisfaction on the punciples I ha\o set down above Kleitois of Franklin, -\ote for Joseph May and William Goodfellow, the two staunch, good, honest men — I am, iVc , A \]y vi. Ki. vmvIin Cot \ru\ EiK(Toa.