WHY WERE THEY DEFEATED?
TO TITK HDFI OK. Sir, —The absence on election day of Mr : G. B. NicltoUs at the Taieri has been a gt at misfortune to the Temperance party. He! must have thought there was rto occasion : to round up Ids flock again, as they had ' but recently 'travelled over the tracks to 1 the different polling booths, showing that the rhajor portion of them are tired of the did and beaten-down paths, and requite a rest. Why should Sir Nicholls concern himself so much about wb,o pays for’advertising, etc? I am sure it doesn’t trouble the; brewers .Hid spirit merchants in the least as to who pays the cold-water pipers’ i exoensesi neither does hi matter wimmomi- I
noted the Moderate ticket. 'just tf well in be alxive-bodra ’• No'one'would ever think of a Good Templar nominating ( “trade’’ ticket, neither would a spin! merchant . think of nominating a Tbmperooca Bench.—l am, etc.,, . Dy&a&x, '■■■ March 15.
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Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 6
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158WHY WERE THEY DEFEATED? Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 6
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