North Ward Election.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5280, 25 July 1888, Page 3

North Ward Election.

[to thk editok.] I gj R| —lt is a common expression on the approach of a local election that "politics havo nothing to do with Municipal alfairs." From this opinion I Iwg to dift'or. Politics ought to have everything to do with local matters, und 1 am not prepared to say that they ought not to enter into our every-riuy buMiiens coiieurns. I believe that if the voice of the country at the last general elections had declared in favor of tho StoutVogcl Government, and that if, in sympathy with that voici), Napier had elected Mr Ivess as its representative, tho so-called Conservative parly hi thia town would havo boon inude to appreciate very keenly the iniluenct! of polities in the daily concerns of life. What is saueo of tho goo.se is sauce for (he gander, and only those who now find themselves in a minority and feel their weakness cry aloud " polities have nothing to do with local affairs." I can tell you, Sir, that those who are making , u.->e of that very expvt.'Sbion aro employing tho bonus of politics to unite together tho particles of a beaten party to put Mr Gilbenl into tho Council. Jlr Gilberd poses as a Liberal, otherwise as an IvesHite, otherwise as one wh<> worked to put a strange nobody into Parliament to represent Napier. In that sonso Mr Gilbordisnofriondof thisborough, awl his supporters at this approaching , election will be found Ivessites. Mr Gilberd's opponent is a. staunch Ormondito, and I for one do not care whether ho has a large or a small stake in this town. 1 know lie has bruins, that ho is not v timo-Kcrvcr, or j Hellish, and by his work at the last elections Ihe showed that he had the best interests of Napier at heart.—-I am, £c, Ay Electob.