THE Marlborough Times PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1884.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1413, 27 November 1884, Page 2

THE Marlborough Times PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1884.

We cannot disguise, the satisfaction wc feel at the result of the Mayoral contest yesterday and .whilst we ever deprecate anything that may savour of crowing over a defeated candidate, in the teeth of the dfsgraceful and untrue aspersions cast broadcast by Mr Dodson’s organ up to the day of the election, the tremendous blow struck at the prestige of our chief local political schemers, is one over which we feel the entire body of the ratepayers have every reason to rejoice. The reign of the bitter few, who sailed into power some three years ago under the false flag of toleration and disinterestedness has been very quickly and very roughly brought to a close. Although at the start they acted as the proverbial new broom, the affairs of the Council are far more unsatisfactory now than they were when the party first attained office, Instead of remedying abuses they have created them, and things have been done which in other places would have been deemed public scandals. Were it only possible to cite one one other instance, that alone of the cowardly dismissal of Mr John Tucker Robinson, and the contemptible way iu which it was gone about, is sufficient to make every lover of fair play rejoice at the blow which has befallen the party so discreditably concerned. The ratepayers’ verdict of yesterday was of the most emphatie character. The townspeople have no longer confidence in Mr Dodson, or the greater power than him, the power behind the throne. They have proved themselves intolerant in power and they haye reaped the harvest they themselves hive sown. In Mr Henderson, we are sure the Borough will pos-esa a Mayor not only fitted to preside ovor its Council, but one who will discharge his duties with care and impartiality. There was once an excellent fable written about a certain frog, it is a long time since we read it, and our recollection of it is but imperfect, but we have a sort of intuitive feeling that its perusal would not be un'instructive to a party whose .accession to power has induced them to go in for so much self inflation.