MR SHEEHAN AT THE HORSE BAZAAR.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6917, 22 July 1884, Page 3

MR SHEEHAN AT THE HORSE BAZAAR.

Mr Sheehan addressed a meeting of the electors at Messrs Monteith and Oo.'s Horse Bazaar last evening. There was a large attendance, the whole area of the building available for standing room being occupied. Mr A. Gold occupied the ohair. Mr Sheehan prefaced bis address by saying he was ia doabt whether some of his hearers might not think he was up for aale to the highest bidder, as he was addressing them from an auctioneer's rostrum. (Laughter.) But the real reason he had called the meeting there waß becaase he did not want to hold an open-air meeting in Olive-square, and bo tend to interfere with the attendance at Mr Ormond's meeting. The morning paper charged him with Unfairness beoauss he was going to address a meeting on the same evening asMr Ormond wan doing so. But what were the facta of the case? A fortnight before the nominations Mr Ormond'B people engaged the theatre for three nights, including the two nights prior to the polling day. He went to Mr Ashton to see about the theatre, and he told him (Mr Sheehan) that the theatre was engaged", but that perhaps by asking Mr Ormond he (Mr Sheehan) might get the use of the building for one night. He asked Mr Ormond, who consented to give up the theatre for a night, and he (Mr Sheehan) thanked him for it. But if Mr Ormond's people thought that because of that he (Mr Sheeban) would give up his right to address the electors the night before the polling, they were very much mistaken. He would refer them to the cartoons that had been issued, which were provocative of good humor, and were creditable to those who got them out. He understood that the artist who designed a number of them was a namesake of an Auckland representative—Mr William Swanson. He ap peared to have acted impartially, and to nave designed cartoons for both sides. One of these oartoons represented the finish of a race, wi:h him (Mr Sheehan) in front of the winning post, and Mr Ormond a long way behind. If Mr Swanson were as good a prophet as he had proved himself an artist he should give up painting, and start as sporting writer for the papers. (Laughter.) The only skit that had caused him regret was one which said :—" Why does Joe Parker refuse to suppoit Mr Sheehan ? Because he has known him from boyhood and never known any good of him." Waß Mr Parker present ? He (Mr Sheehan) did not rhink he could come forward and admit being the author of that skit. (Voioes: "Joe has denied it already.") He was very glad to hear it was denied. He had known Joe Parker from boyhood, and he was one of his (Mr Sheehan's) supporters until a few days before the nomination. He (Mr- Sheehan) saw Joe Parker in hia smithy a few days DwSere^he nomination, and his reason for altering! was this : Joe Parker said :— ••• I did not j know you were coming forward. When I promised my vote to Mr Ormond I thought Buchanan was coming forward, and I could not vote for him. But it is different now, and when the polling comes I shall be there for you." He believed Joe Parker was too honest and too manly to have been the author of that skit,f and thatghe would knock down any man who dared accuse him of Buch an action. (A voice : " The Telegraph, invented it.") All he (Mr Sheehan) could say, was that if Joe Parker was the author — (cries of " He's not ")— he should change his name, and call himself " Holy Joe." (Laughter and applause.) Mr Sheehan strongly condemned the fact that there was only one polling booth for Napier, and said there was no place in the colony having the same number of eleotors as Napier where only one polling booth was allowed. He saw that the authorities had| taken|up the question of protection, and had sworn in ten or a dozen of the firemen as special constables.

Local workmen had also been engaged in making batons for these special con-

stables, to be used, he presumed, on the heads of the people. He maintained that there was no cause for fearing any dispo-

sition on the part of the people to be violent or to break the law, and he thought the gentleman or gentlemen who had given the order for these batons — which were being made of black maire, the hardest and heaviest wood obtainable in the colony — could not justify the expenditure incurred. The whole thing was an insult to the people of Napier. (Cheers.) On the night of Mr Ormond's meeting, a certain person of high authority in the place (and a person who had passed through a previous trial of the same kind,

and had been told to mind himself in future), said to a number of constables ; —

"Go down to Ormond's meeting at the theatre and place yourselves under the orders of Captain Blythe." (Groans.)

He (Mr Sheehan) remembered that for a similar fault to that now being committed, one of that person's best men had been sacrificed, and another man got off with a caution, and yet the person he referred to was now at the old game. Whether he won or loat — and he believed he would win — he would make it a matter of publio duty to go straight for that man, who held a public position, and had dared to go across the line and make himself a supporter of one of the candidates. (Loud cheering.) Mr Sheehan then referred to Mr Ormond's conduot when Superintendent, and Baid he had taken up the lands of the province for himself and friends, and had run the railway through those lands instead of by townships laid out long before in places where it waß understood the line was to go. He then referred to the question of the stoppage of the preparations for a public holiday, and stigmatised the result as a hole-and-corner attempt to prevent the full number of working men's votes being polled. He was glad, however, that a large number of employers of labor had made arrangements to let their men away. He specially mentioned the Tomoana freezing works, where a notice was posted up stating that all employees who had a |vote in Napier were to take a half-holiday, and go in and vote. Ooming in to Napier from there, he met a man who told him he had been offered £1 to vote for Mr Ormond, and who professed to be willing to vote for him (Mr Sheehan) for 12s. He (Mr Sheehan) told him he could not pay him for his vpte, and that he, had better take £1 and spend it. If that man came into town to vote, he would find his name was given to the scrutineers, and he would hear of the matter in a way he would not like. Mr Sheehan concluded his address, which lasted about an hour, by stating that the present contest was one between, capital and labor. He advised them all to vote early, as if they left it till dinner time, or to five o'clock, they would find it impossible to vote. The battle was theirs, and the issue was in their own hands. In conclusion, he would ask them three questions :— First, would they vote early? (Loud cries of " Yes, yes/) Would they vote for the beat man) (Cheers, and loud cries of "Yea.") Would they vote 1 for him? (Loud cheering, waving of hats, and cries of "We will," during which Mr Sheehan resumed his seat.) In answer to questions, Mr Sheehan stated that he would support a motion to enable members of the Aimed Constabulary to vote.— He was not in f ayor of denominational education, but if the * Catholics could prove to Parliament that

they had a grievance, he would support; it being enquired into. He would do this, not as apeoially favoring the Catholics, but would enquire into any grievance which the Church of England people or the Presbyterians might hay«. — He would support the repeal of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, which allowed totalisators and bookmakers, but prohibited the most innocent sweep. He had opposed that bill in the Hottee whan it was brought forward. Mr B. Harding proposed, and Mr J. A. Hearden seconded, a vote of thanks and confidence in Mr Sheehan. The motion was carried amid tremendous cheering, waving of hats, and ehonts of "Three oheers for Johnnie." Before the meeting conoluded Mr Sheehan strongly urged upon those present who might leave that meeting and go to the theatre, to hear Mr Ormond, to be strictly quiet and orderly. A f ote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. Don't Die in the House.— " Kough on Bats " clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed- bugs, flies, ants, inseots, moles, jackrabbits, gophers. Felton, GrinTtfade & Co., Agents, Wellington. 161 The Tidy Housewife.— Tbo oarefftl, tidy housewife, when giving her house its SjrfißSf cleaning should bear in mind tbat the at«r inmates ares more preoious than houses ; their systems need cleansing, by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels, and she should know that there is nothing that will do it bo surely as Hep Bitter*, the purest and best of all medicines. Look for. 152 To restore nerve and brain iraßte, nothing equals Hop Bitten. Believe this. Set. 168 Holloway'a Ointment) and Pills.— The infirmities of our nature almost necessitate disease. Impurity of the blood, functional disturbances, and loose living constantly give rise to despondency, debility, or distempers. In" the above-named remedies, the community can and do have, at a little cost, the safe and certain means of preventing or checking, and curing both outward ailments and inward maladies. Ample plainly printed and very intelligible directions accompany every pack* age of both Ointment and Fills, which only require attentive study to enable every invalid to be hie or her own medical adviser. The earlier these powerful remedies are employed after discovery of the disease, the more rapid will be their action in expelling from the system all noxious matter and restoring health. — [Apvt.] 164