Why Not Toss for it?

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 112, 13 May 1941, Page 4

Why Not Toss for it?

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Air. Alansford and his supporters have got into a real tangle—and now they have got the wind up! instead of letting tho election run its normal course, they thought they would be clever campaigners, not merely by wrongly but vainly discrediting Mr. Tennent personally, but also by letting loose a panic cry, quit© groundless, that dreadful things would happen if a Labour Mayor were elected. Now the bird has come home to roost, and they themselves have become tho victims of their own panic. Mr. Mansford’s bitter and baseless attack on Mr. Tennent has added fuel to the lire. Now they want Mr. Tennent to put the fire outl If Air. Mansford’s supporters are honest and their sole motive and object is to keep a Labour Mayor out by one of the two remaining candidates retiring, obviously the only sporting and equitable procedure would be a toss of the coin—or, for those who prefer to have it in Scriptural form, let them draw lots. That and that alone w r ould be equitable in the local circumstances. But probably the contest has become too keen and the voters themselves must decide. —I am, etc., “COMPROAIISE.”