VOTING CONTEST

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7023, 11 January 1910, Page 7

VOTING CONTEST

Organise. Organisation counts. Organisation means moro vote 3. Organisation means world's tour. Organisation will win valuablo prizee. Organisation is everything—with it you can <lo anything— without it nothing. Organise for.' free vote coupons—one coupon may mean first placo March 19th. Organise and go out into the highways and byways of every portion of the Dominion. No candidate is restricted to any particular torritory. Mr J.' Brown, Upper Hutt, called yestorday and voted a substantial ballot for Mr J. Brown, jun., Upper Hutt. Neither is related to 'tether, and they are not even acquainted, but tnat- tci'low feeling wondrous kind" makes tne Brown family akin. That five guinea prize by Mr Geo. T. White has precipitated a lively scramble for votes among the candidates with BUUU votes and less. It is certainly worth working for, and the winner will doubtloss bo found among the twenty leaders on February Ist. Old' Jed Judson' used to say: "I like a man who fights me. He teaches me and helps me. If he's strong enough to bang tho everlasting tar oufn my hide,Tgete a chance to find out where I was weaker than I thought. If I can put him down, I'm *»**■«'!* myself. These here fellers all the time lhandin' you boxes of word candy don t go with me. I don't take no stock in ove7sociable folk. They remind me of.

hunters calling as pleasantly as postiiblo to a female turkey, for purposes different from, what tho blamo fool fowl thinks." It's a pity old Jed is not hero to participate in this contest; still his ciuaint philosophy should he adopted with profit and pleasure by all the candidates.

It has be-on stated that the Vatieaii has been approached with a view of selecting a patron saint for aviators. Some wit will doubtless suggest that Elijah would bo an appropriate person, but as ho was and Old Testament character, he would .not bo eligible. If it is in order, this JJepartment would suggest tnat a .j}™© later on some of our candidates wUI oo noted as "high fliers."

The totals this morning would lead some to believe a tour of the world is what the leaders are after, but not so; not so. It is the honour of representing New Zealand abroad that makes the climbers climb, and by March 19th, it this soaring continues, some oi the canr didatos will reach a height that, will not necessitate any further travelling.

The average speech of an earnest candidate can be defined as a . ve ™*} ancsthotio with which tho contestant seeks to put the prospective subscriber into a good humour while ho operates 'on his lenorasity. If the totals this morning moan anything, our candidates are proving most successful operators. It doesn't pay to be everybody's friend -it's too impossible. . Try something easier, such as upsetting tho laws of nature, by squaring a circle or uy giowfng wheat in Cook Strait, making two and two total cloven, or setlhns tho Wralian' strike. About the most iov possible thing, however wiU bo to find a morning newspaper reader without tne "Times" after March 19th.