The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1869.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 266, 12 November 1869, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1869.

The present week has been a busy one among the electors ; it has also been an important one, for upon the abilities and business capacities of the newly elected representatives, the welfare of the province will largely depend. There seems to be a general desire to bring forward the best men that can be found, and it is most satisfactory to find gentlemen of ability, aud having a considerable stake in the country willing to give their services in the provincial legislature. The elecfors of the proviuce have lately been called upon to give their voices in choosing a Superintendent and this they have done wiih no uncertain sound, but have expressed as plainlo as they could their eutire confidence in Mr. Curtis. Now that -they have elected their head, they may possibly conceive tbat they have done all that is required of them, but this is by no means the case, and they have yet a highly important duty to fulfil in deciding who they shall send to the Couucil, whether they are to be able and honest men, men who are capable of forming an opinion upon any question that may be brought before them and who, having formed that opinion, are sufficiently honest and straightforward to act upon it without reference to how it may affect this or that party ; or, whether the chief consideration is to be — is the candidate who seeks our suffrages a supporter or an oppouent of the Superintendent ? Now, whilst we should not hesitate to record our vote agaiust one who was likely to ofier a factious opposition to ihe Government, we should be as little disposed to support a candidate who came forward and expressed his intention of affording it a blind support. A little judicious opposition is a most desirable thing, and we cannot agree with those who think tbat the Superintendent aud Council should all be of one way of thinking — such for instance, as Mr. Gibbs, "who is reported to bave said at Westport — doubtless under the influence of a blissful vision in which he imagined himself snugly ensconced iu the Superintendent's chair — that he hoped after electing a Superintendent, they would elect members who would support him, /or unless there was unanimity there was very little good lik<dy to result from the exertions of either of them." These happy families are not always the wisest or the most successful, and they are apt to become slack and dilatory, an evil which is only to be remedied by the kuowledge that their actions are being watched by those who are ready to offer a wholesome opposition so soon as it appears to them to be necessary. Such being our views, we eau but hope that all party feeling, either on the one side or the other, will be laid aside in the coining elections, both iu town and conutry, and that the chief and only object of the electors will be to choose the best and tbe ablest men that are to be found. They have done this in electing a Superintendent, let them be actuate 1 by the same laudable motives iu determining who they will have to represent them in the Council.