MR. ORMOND’S VICTORY.
Every true Liberal throughout the Colony will regret that Mr Ormond has defeated Mr Ivess for Napier. Notwithstanding” this defeat it is indeed gratifying to see that the Tory party has received a rude shock in the smallness of the majority by which Mr Ormond was returned.
From the fact that, an ,absolute stranger to the Napier people’ secured no less than 950 votes as to 1008, and this against all the influence that wealth carries with it, it will be readily conceived that Mr Ormond's days are numbered, and that in any future contest for Parliamentary honours at Napier he must be hopelessly beaten, That Liberalism is making a rapid advancement in the Hawke’s Bay district is fully demonstrated. Three years ago Mr J. Sheehan—a very popular man—was beaten by 102 votes. Now an outside man runs the great Tory candidate so close that it is only by a bare majority that he can claim his return.
The pill must indeed be a bitter one to Ormond and his class. As far as the working men are concerned they are unrepresented, and what is worse for them will probably be misrepresented, Ormond is not the man to suffer such a smack in the face as he got on Monday last without making those who gave it to him suffer to the utmost. He has always been looked upon as the most selfish of men, and the recent struggle by the Napier Liberals to oust him will make him more so, as far as they are concerned. Always one who has cringed to the upper classes, a land monopolist himself, and a constant hater of the working man, his interests are against anything Liberal. His overbearing demeanour has had a considerable check this last election, for he has been made to feel the necessity of making a personal canvass of the working men, a thing that would cut him to the quick. One thing is absolutely certain, and that is Mr J. D. Ormond, the enemy of the working man, will never represent Napier again should he contest the seat. So mote it be.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 48, 1 October 1887, Page 2
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357MR. ORMOND’S VICTORY. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 48, 1 October 1887, Page 2
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