MAYORAL MUTTERINGS AND MANNERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 100, 21 April 1914, Page 6

MAYORAL MUTTERINGS AND MANNERS.

V ■■ f , ■ XTo Thf Editor Stratford Post.J Sir, —As one who listened to His Worship’s earnest and lucid speech at the Town HJtll last night, I wish through your columns to congratulate him-on the masterful and gentlemanly way- in which he placed the “burning” questions of the hour before his auditors. He showed us one and all that, no matter what his weaknesses are (and 1.-am ~not .denying that he may have weaknesses) he has not forgotten his manners. Compared with His Worship, the other candidate for Mayoral honors cut. a very sorry figure, and' I would like to say. right here that if Mr King, when elected,, wishes to uphold the dignity 'of his Mayoral robes, he must not sit at public meetings with hat on head and hurl a running fire of interjections at the speaker. Of course, Mr King is not , yet Mayor, and lie may have thought that as much dignity] was i. not expected of him as a citizen, hut he must have known *lh|^t f \yaSj very bad iorni to interrupt the speaker, who happens to be his opponent, and who is still Mayor of our town, and that it was • equally bad form to address him by hi? Christian name. T will not belabour this matter any further, but would like to say in justice to Mr King that I do not think he is totally ignorant of the way in wbieji behave ( \nt public inyffipgj'j.. but. prefer to be ’ kinder and say -that possibly he forgot himself. There was, however, no ( necessity and no excuse for his actions. In conclusion, I hope that when Mr King’s time comes to address the electors. he will he given a fair and impartial hearing.—l*fm, etq. f. “KLKCTRA.”