Veterans Who Know Him.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8054, 1 November 1897, Page 4

Veterans Who Know Him.

Mk William Hutchison, for long a representative of, and the other day a defeated candidate for, Dunedin City, sends to the Otago Daily Times for publication an extract from a letter of condolence he had received from Mr A. Saunders, the sometime Nestor of the House, "who writes to his friend thus : — "So the election has turned out just as you expected, but I feel quite sure not only that you have done the right thing, but also that you have done a great deal of good. It is infinitely better that a Tory should get in, or half a. dozen of them, than thatSeddon should succeed in nominating for that great, well ■ informed Scotch constituency any person that knew would endorse all his actions, however illiberal, dishonest and tyrannical they be. Talk of splitting Liberals — what sort of Liberals have we any opportunity to support? What really Liberal measure has ever originated with Seddon ? What really good law has he not opposed until zee forced it upon him ? . . . . . God grant that, however soon or however poor you ;uid I may go to our graves, mc may go clean-handed and owe nothing to the man who has played the tyrant and the deceiver in the name of a Liberal. I wish [ could take you by the baud and say, ' Let us live on potatoes, but let us obey our consciences. r: ' To (his Mr Hutchison adds the following note as to the portion preceding the hiatus: — "Probably on this question a famous scene has occurred to my friend, in which he and I, after much entreaty, overcame the Premier's objection* to submit the Bill containing tho woman franchise to the -Governor for Viceregal sanction. Voila lout."