CAPTAIN MORRIS' ADDRESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 866, 18 August 1879, Page 2

CAPTAIN MORRIS' ADDRESS.

[To the Editor qf the Herald. ] Sir, — Those who attended Captain Morris' meeting at the Masonic Hall on Saturday night, will be more than ever impressed with a conviction .of his ability. The manner m which a man who after two sessions of Parliament, during which we have nothing to thank him for, takes credit for expenditure of public monies here, the gift of the rails, which by the way he overrates, &., &c, is politically beyond all praise. But while admiring Captain Morris' political abilities, and acknowledging, with- thanks, the very unmistakeable and direct answer he gave as to which side of the House he belonged and would support, viz., the Opposition, it must bo apparent to the electors that we, should all be much safer m the hands of ajocal man (and the more unsophisticated, perhaps, the better for us) than m those of so accomplishsd a politician as Captain Morris. I am certain that Captain Morris really is a "gentleman and a soldier," and that he will personally take no offence at what I say, he|being a " cosmopolitan ; " if I were a Tauranga man I should unhesitatingly vote for him. But circumstances alter cases, and beinic a resident m Cook County I should deem it an act of the greatest treachery when we have three men befere us, any one of whom is fit for the House, to vote for an outsider. fcj&Let us then hope that the Poverty Bay men will stick to their colours, and do their duty by endeavouring to return a local man. To pursue any other course is simply suicide. — I am, &c. , W. H. Tucker.