A WAIKOUAITI CANDIDATE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13421, 23 October 1905, Page 4 (Supplement)

A WAIKOUAITI CANDIDATE.

TO THE EDITOR SlB, —This district is being visited by the gentleman who styles himself "the Government candidate," although, if all reports bo true, the electors are accepting him with reluctance, and ho is giving us what we might call eddressettes. Oh, what promios! Jack Cade of olden times* was not in it with him. He is too overwhelmingly good—"too sweot to bo wholesome," a 9 a thoughtful man remarked at Seacliff the other day when he replied to this question : "Are you in favour of Asylum attendants reoeiving a free pass onoe a year on the railway?" Mr Clark expressed himself as being anxious to go one better than even tho questioner desired. Ho "would endeavour to get the attendants a free pass AT ANT TllfK they wished to travel to Dunedin," Now, there are considerably over 100 votes hanging to the Asylum, which' Mr Clark no doubt thinks is worth angling for. But if he is going to do that for tho Asylum attendants, will he not also' do it for the railway men' and their wives? And. if for the railway men and their good ladies, yhy not for all working men, with their sweethearts and wives?—because many working msn would like to get » etcadj

job on either tlio railway or Asylum. And, then, if all these folks aro to get freo passes have-only the farmers and miners to pay? I_ think we ..had better', not promiso our votes yst until wo see what promises are possible of fulfilment to us. We aro not all to be caught by chaff even to help a man to Parliament?—l am, etc., Waikocaiti.