ONE-TREE POINT.
December B.— Twilight of Friday inflicted a decisive political blow on the electors of Mataura, and deprived our highly-esteemed member of his seat in the House. It is an indisputable fact that Mr Robert M'Nab represented us during the past three years in a degree worthy of the esteem and admiration of the public generally and of the confidence of a large body of electors, and it was wholly and solely due to the decreased popularity of the Government that our representative was replaced by an Oppositionist.. Mr M'Nab's actions have been beyond the range of censure, while the finger of scorn cannot be pointed at him either publicly or: privately, and if there are present or past members to-day against whom individual condemnation cannot be hurled Mr M'Nab is one of them. Had the Government of the day been free from the tUtS of doubtful tactics and innuendoes our worthy membm »uuM have ascended the political ladder with an ovciwhelminff majority, but he has had to forfeit !iis seat through loyalty to his parby and loyalty to iis convictions, and the result i* no jeremiad at the lands of electors, but a conscientious conclusion hat Mataura has lost a very able representative find the people a thoroughl? honest and upright Hdvocata of their rights. Throughout his electioneering campaign Mr M'Nab had never to fiefend himself against charges of broken pledges and allegations of unkempt promises— an important mark which will *tand to his future credit. (Although, defeated, hejjoeaessea mottla fib for
many a tough right, and will doubtless prove a formidable opponent on the political platform in the struggle for political supremacy. Mr M'Nab has all the pluck and energy of a man in the prime of life, and is quits ready for the greatest battle that may bo fought on this sido of Kingdom Come, and 1 honoutly believe that when the rising sun of a December morn of '99 throws its beams on Mr Robert M'Nab, he will once more be M.H.R. for Mataura.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 25
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339ONE-TREE POINT. Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 25
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