WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATE'S RETURN ?
Not jocular piety, for Dr. Wallis is rejected ; nor even finished declamation coupled with the political sentiments of a cynic, for Mr. Reader Wood is rejected ; not eff naive teetotalism, for Mr. Speight is rejected ; not wealth, even coupled with political ability, for Mr. Ormond is rejected ; not aggressive Good Templarism, even when coupled with ready debating power, for Sir William Fox is rejected ; not a pleasing speaker, coupled with a plastic political creed, for Mr. a Ballance is i ejected ; not a bluff and jovial manlier, for Mr; bunny is rejected; not a picker of political windbags, for Mr. Seymour is rejected ; not a stonewaHer, for Mr. Gibbs is rejected ; not a working man's candidate, for Mr. AndruWß is rejected ; not a rotund and genial farmer, for Mr. Fisher is rejected ; not unobtrusive ability, and special knowledge of public works, for Mr. Richardson is rejected ; not rowdy stonewalling and inflated speeches, for Mr. Reeves is rejected ; not respectable mediocrity and legal diffuaenesa, for Mr. Stewart is rejected ; not the genial friend and agent of land speculators, lor Mr. Bast,iiigß is rejected ; not a pleasing voice and a .finished orator, for Mr. Wakefield is rejected; not land leagne proclivities and very plain speaking, for Mr. Lundon.is rejected.—
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 150, 28 December 1881, Page 3
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212WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATE'S RETURN ? Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 150, 28 December 1881, Page 3
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