MORNINGTON RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION.

Evening Star, Issue 12418, 3 February 1905, Page 7

MORNINGTON RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION.

TO THE KOI TOR. Sir,—lt is most singularly unfortunate that the gentlemen who are running the above shfmld have to call to their aid Messrs Mantz and bloody, two of the fiercest spirits of the late Vigilance Committee, who, I am sure, will never consent to take a back seat.

It may be well to be able to command a scathing pen, and hold in reserve a fighting power that can at any given moment swoop down into the arena, rush the Press, and storm the platform; hut it should not be forgotten that even Mr Aunand, supported by a strong Council, could not succeed in reducing these gentlemen to silence. Is it then likely that Mr Wilson and his unsophisticated colleagues will win them over to hear the brunt of the battle without having to pay a heavy price for their services? I would therefore earnestly advise this gentleman to renounce this impolitic alliance, and proceed upon his own lines, otherwise the movement will come to grief, and another deadlock wQI be brought about between the Council and the ratepayers, for the parties I have named are too wily and aggressive to be pushed aside without a bitter struggle for mastery.—l am, etc., S.W. February 5.