ALLEGED INTEMPERATE LANGUAGE AT FEATHERSTON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 15 December 1881, Page 2

ALLEGED INTEMPERATE LANGUAGE AT FEATHERSTON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Sib — After the declaration of the poll on Monday last at Featheraton, Mr. W. c. Buchanan, the successful candidate for Wairarapa South, invited the members of his committee and supporters to a lunch at Faber's Hotel, in the course of which Mr. Welby Jackson, the chairman of his committee and proposer at his nomination, went out of his way to insult the electors of Featherston who supported and voted for Mr. Bunny, stigmatising them as a set of " lacy, loafing, drunken scoundrels " — those were the words used. Now, sir, I ask is this the way a person calling himself a gentleman should act toward an unsuccessful adversary? I think an apology due to the 138 electors of Featheraton who voted fo* Mr. Bunny, either from Mr. W. Jackson or from Mr. W. C. Buchanan, who I believe too much of a gentleman to countenance any cuoh remarks. The residents of Featherston consider themselves grossly insulted, and will no doubt remember Mr. Welby Jackson, and, like Captain Cuttle, " make a note it. He probably considered himself secure, surrounded by his friends. Would he have dared to use ihe same expression, outside ? I rather think not. His courage, like Falstaff's, would have oozed out at his fingerends. In conclusion, I hope the Featherstonians will remember Mr. W. Jackson, and at some future time return him a Roland for his Oliver. I am, &c, One oy the Fbatherston SootrN»ireiit.