CORRESPONDENCE.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 191, 10 August 1887, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

\Vo do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed l>y our Correspondents. Ml! 0 KOIlf! K IX.OSON HACKS Cf' nis r.i;»»tm 1:1:. To iiik Km roe. S.ll!,—To the 11u«• r> in \otir I* i.—it. . .1 " l.iU r.i'l." I is-j.' to say. ji.h a „ , |... u'.,-. 1 i. im- mn '■ i.ti-tJilv" riy'il to ask anr candid,ite for .Parliamentary honors any question 1 may choose to do. and also a perfect right by those questions to show that -whilst Air Maea lister is posing before the electors as " the only Liberal candidate,” and charging others yrilb lr«.yir.# changed front snd wne oy«j

to Conservatism, that ho himself is brought out by some of the first leaders of the old so-called Conservative part), and it must follow, as a natural sequence, that of the three candidates before tho electors he is himself tho greatest Conservative of tho lot —whatever the tcnn may mean. “Hate of Ballot and Village. .Settlement schemes.” Bosh! To the first perfectly indifferent; hut any good scheme for settlement on lands, w.sely and carefully conducted, has no greater mend than I would he. But I fear what has already taken place in this direction is a prelude to utter faduie. Mr Macalister’s and your own great blow of Government Liberalism is refreshing in its verdancy. "Whatever meaning Liberalism and Conservatism may have had in former years, it has little here at present, and I believe in most other places. It is “ men, nut measures —and the electors will jiuh'o for themselves, and know how to eliooso between one who is doing his level best to injure an opponent not only politically but prrxonalhi, and another full of blow and promises whether he may have any knowledge of the subject matter or not, and yet another who has been a useful and faithful member of tho district, as again and again acknowledged even by those who were, and now are not amongst his very strongest opponents. I am, &c., Geo. Donsox. [Mr Macalister in his printed address and in his speeches has so frequently assorted that ho comes forward entirely unconnected with any local party or clique, that it is only the “ oldest inhabitant of 33 years standing” (as Mr George Dodson pathetically described himself at Marl - boroughtown) who would dispute Mr Macalister’s word. At the same time, length of residence scarcely entitles our correspondent to repeat stale charges, which have been so often refuted that they are unworthy of further notice. Life is too short to attempt to teach our correspondent tho difference between Conservatism and Liberalism. Tried by the standard either of “men not measures or of “measures not men,” his brother has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.— Ed. Marlti. Times.]