HOAXING A CANDIDATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9367, 25 November 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOAXING A CANDIDATE.

M. Robinkt, the illiterate candidate for I Parliament, who went round Paris the other day blowing a hunting horn in order to call attention to his electoral programme, has been nearly stoned to death in the Trocadero district, owing to the hoax of of which ho was made a victim by a facetious printer. The compositor, taking advantage of M. Robinet's inability to read or write, drew up the address, couching it in the most unparliamentary language at his command. It was, in fact, composed of a tissue of the vilest insults to the local electors, while the candidate himself was not spared by the irrepressible hoaxer. Hardly had M. Robinet appeared in public between his boards than he was followed by a crowd of people who threatened to lyncn him. Somo throw stones at the man, bub he found a few sympathisers, who evidently saw through the joke and defended him. A free fight raged for a few moments around the candidate, his friends and his foes energetically plying their fists and sticks, while Robineb looked intensely amazed at the tumult. He was finally extricated from his perilous position by the police. Notwithstanding his adventure the •victim of the pifinter's hoax intends to continue his candidature, and professes to have faith in his chances of securing a seat in the Palais Bourbon, where he would be a greater curiosity than the Deputy in a blouse or the peasant politician from Brittany.