The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, Judy 12, 1887.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 14, 12 July 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, Judy 12, 1887.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’S) and truth’s.

“WEEPING AND WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.” The attitude taken up by our evening contemporary on the Harbor Board question is really pitiable. Anyone who dares to disagree with the Prophet of the Back Ally is evidently,according to the Herald’s august opinion, a dolt or an idiot, and the two last evenings its access of atrabilibous calumniation seems to be more accentuated than ever.

It may be liver, or it may not. If it be the former, Hop Bitters or Warner’s Safe Cure (we give them both a free ad) may do them good, but if be mere spite against an honorable and—in spite of the Herald and its allies—a successful man, then of course we would not presume to prescribe.

Our venerable friend tries to make political capital out of the Government’s honoring of a popular local man with a public appointment. This is really very mean. If the Herald or anyone else dares to say that Mr McDonald deliberately intrigued Mr Graham out of his seat, all we have to say is they lie, A good old honest English word is a “ lie ” and we stick to it. As for making political capital out of the affair, it is the Herald which is trying to do it. Our muddling, mischievous, malignant, and moribund contemporary is attempting to cast obloquy upon Mr McDonald as it has done before and will ever strive to do.

Does our worthy friend the Evening Blowhard remember the time when it wilfully and deliberately maligned the same gentleman on the eve of his departure for England ? If it can remember that let it remember the abject, grovelling apology it was forced to publish whe n the libelled gentleman returned from England. We don’t wish to be too hard upon the Herald. We wish to have fair play, but we warn its proprietors that that apology, abject, miserably, contemptibly abject as it was, can be published to-morrow, and will be unless fair play be shown.

Mr McDonald was appointed by the Government, and we believe that he is the very last man m the world to crawl and to creep to get such a billet. Mr McDonald has his faults. We don’t plump for him, or anyone else, until after we have seen the manifestoes, and heard the addresses of all three candidates, but we certainly must raise our voice in protest against the columns of our contemporary being used to asperse and malign the fair name of any one of those candidates.

For Mr Graham, personally, we have every possible respect. It may be that he has. been hardly treated, but we fail to see it. Like all Government nominees he has had his turn, and why he should be appointed to the Board for ever and for aye, is more than anyone, save our contemporary, can understand, Nevertheless we feel sure that Mr Graham cannot but feel annoyed at the way in which our contemporary, under cover of his alleged cause for complaint, is throwing a whole Gladstone road full of mud at an honest man, whose only misfortune, or fortune we should rather say, it is to be opposed in political matters to the gang to which the Herald so well represents.