AN AGGRIEVED CANDIDATE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15704, 25 August 1911, Page 6

AN AGGRIEVED CANDIDATE.

Berrji Dr Thacker and Mr Howard may be pardoned for their little vanity in imagining that the power of the local Press was arrayed against them in yesterday’s municipal election, but Mr Howard went rather beyond the latitude allowed to a defeated candidate when he charged us with refusing to giro him an opportunity to refute the u lying statements that had been levelled against him during the contest. Wo presume that he was referring to a letter which he sent to us for publication on. the morning of the election and which contained a number of very derogatory assertions concerning His opponents, who of course would have had no opportunity to answer them before the poll if w-o had acceded to his wishes. In declining to print his letter we followed a rule which w'o have always observed on such occasions, and which, we think, Mr Howard himself would commend in his cooler moments. Wo certainly had no

wish to prejudice his candidature or to do any injustice to the “ Revolutionary Socialists,” and we think he was paying us far too high a compliment when ho attributed his defeat to our refusal to let him have his own way in our correspondence columns.