MR ALLEN’S CANDIDATURE.

Evening Star, Issue 7254, 4 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

MR ALLEN’S CANDIDATURE.

TO TOR BDITOB. Sir,—Love is eald to be blind, and I fancy that this is the only way of accounting for your praise of Mr Allen’s address. I have read it carefully through. It may be very good for Mr Allen, but certainly there is not anywhere in It, that I can discover, an original idea or even turn of expression. Itjis a reproduction of the dreary platitudes about retrenchment, etc., which have been repeated ad nauseam in every barparlor for the last twelve months. Tou and your contemporaries generally deal out unmeasured censure of the present Government; but what about the Atkinson-Dlck lot, who wasted millions throughout the Colony in utterly useless works (the Dunedin over-bridge and such like}, and entertained the

electors with schemes of insurance against poverty, which would have driven from the Colony every one who had the means of paying his passage to another land. The present Government are not ideally perfect, but surely they are preferable to .the imbecility they replaced. As regards Ur Allen, I will only point ont that no one is more blindly fond tbau an old lady who falls in love with a boy.—l am, etc., Elector. Dunedin, July 2