TO DAY'S ELECTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 201, 22 July 1884, Page 2

TO DAY'S ELECTION.

All over the colony today the electors are choosing their Parliamentary representatives. We trust due importance will be attached te the duty and privilege that each registered elector is expected to dischargo and avail himself of. Representatives will be decided upon by the voice of the people, to whom will be entrusted the political charge of the respective constituencies for the ensuing three yeaia. If the choice is carefully and wisely made, the electors will be benefited m proportion, and vice versa. Not much that we can urge to-day can give additional weight to the arguments previously adduced m support of the candidature of the gentleman who, m our opinion, will best and most faithfully represent the interests of Manawatu m Parliament — we mean, of course, Mr Macakthur. Against Mi* -Fjraseu we could not find it m onr hearts to say a harsh word. We can only regret that he has engaged m tho contest at all, foreseeing, as wp 4°> tkp inevitable result. Mr Mao Arthur's return may be lopked upon as a moral certainty, and we trust m our next issue to congratulate him and the Munawatu Electoi-al District on the fact, That Mana-

watu will be ably represented by him no one attempts to dispute, and the only question that has been raised is thai of his alleged preference toFeilding which idea has been shewn to he entirely erroneous. We counsel the electors to vote consistently with their political convictions, and their consciences will not upliiaid them whatever the result of the contest. We tru^t thn losing side will accept their defeat with equanimity, and that the victorious party will not seuk to be aggressive m their moment of triumph. We trust further that no bitter feelings will remain after the hattle is over, but that our community will continue united as of yore, anxious only for the general good, irrespective o£ parties or party feeling. We say to the electors, use your privilege with all due circumspection, and bear m mind that with you rests a grave responsibility. Put aside all personal and private feeling, and record your votes b.iLlly and honestly for the candidate who you are satisfied will be true to the trust that yon will to-day deliver into his safe keeping.