A NEW CANDIDATE FOR WALLACE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11301, 20 December 1898, Page 8

A NEW CANDIDATE FOR WALLACE.

TO THE EDITOIi

Sic, —In tho Witness of the 3rd inst. it is stated, on tho authority of tho Western Star, that Mr Allan Carmichael, of Otautau, who has hitherto beon a strong Government supporter, and nominator of tho late Mr Mackintosh at the last, and, I think, previous election, is coming out in tho Opposition interest. If true, it will be a pieca of audacious political presumption, and any candidate of such glaring inconsistency getting any support at all would not be paying a high compliment to any electors supporting him.

It seems as if this move was because there is no prospect of any show against Mr Gilfedder and the block vote, if coming out as a Government candidate. Poor Wallace has always been inflicted with a plethora of suitors, and been sometimes strangely represented; and, with the exception of Dr Hodgkinson, every one has sought to obtain the seat by 'tho aid of the block vote. There have been somo remarkable incidents connected with the attempts to secure this vote by candidates, tho recital of which would show how ridiculously low some people can stoop to obtain the end in view, were it not so morally painful.

This last, however, now referred to, if peisisted in, would bo as j?rent an outrage on the political conscieuco of Wallace as any hitherto perpetrated.—l am, etc., Inquireij. Invercargill, December 12.