THE SUPERINTENDENCY. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir—Observing in your issue of this morning a letter signed Robert Stout, reflecting on Mr Macandrew and his. meeting at the Water of Leith pn Saturday last, I claim, as one who .was presentjto contradict the assertion made by Mr Stout that the said meeting was a packed one. If packing means that the electors then present; were all, with one or two, exceptions, in favour of Mr.Macandrew, then 1 admit the oharge j' but not 4a Mr, Stout would wish to convey the meaning to" the public I would -, recommend Mr Stout, editor of the Echo, to discontinue his interference and interruptions' at- meetings assembled to "listen to the deliberations 1 of candidates* when plain, straightforward statementa - are made, to the _;• evident satisfaction, of less, sophisticated; mortals, than this Solon, whose, great forte seems' the Hundreds Act, and how to mystify it. Mr Macandrew'a meetingwas a success, notwithstanding the cool audacity of Mr Stout, whose imperturbable conceit and egotism is only,^exceeded by- hiai want of courte.sy and, good breeding. Let him confine himself to the pages of the Echo anonymously j there he can vent his petty spleen against public men, especially those whose ivipwii,'l^ are v, not reconcilable his own./ - How liberal this rising genius, who would: ;deny others, the' privilege he;, gates Jto himself,!;"! Let Mr Stout: oomeifpriward as a politician and then he will discover, like some others of his trade, that the public are not to be gulled by eophiatry/ I am, &c.^ . ; • : . ■...-'.'•„•■•■-.■ /Jjeixh,- I
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 2798, 25 January 1871, Page 3
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255THE SUPERINTENDENCY. TO THE EDITOR. Otago Daily Times, Issue 2798, 25 January 1871, Page 3
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