PAUL PRY AND THE ELECTION.
To the Editor of tub ' Evening Mail. Sir — I am glad to see your ancient contemporary's favored correspondent •' Paul Pry," has been restored to his wonted health. I hope the Wellington trip did him good. I wonder if he took Mrs. Pry with him. Paul has become a warm advocate of working men. ISave us from such friends. Wanted to ,know what working men's friends have done for them. I will tell him what they have not done : they did not begin to throw dirt, and when they got rather a hard knock, they did not, like a cowardly boy, run and tell the Bobbies ; neither did they try to defend a candidate who violated his pledge to his constituents ; neither did they stand up before a respectable body of free ancl independent electors, and tell them the Assembly was the proper place to discuss public questions ; and working man's candidate, although hearing a rather Black name, does not dip his pen in ink to blacken his opponent ; neither does he try to dispense with Local Government for centralization. Working men, do not be gulled by fine speeches. Judge a man by what he does and not by what he says. I am one of yourselves, A Working Man. Nelson, March 2, 1867.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 51, 2 March 1867, Page 2
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