WAIMEA-PICTON ELECTION.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5015, 26 September 1887, Page 3

WAIMEA-PICTON ELECTION.

To the Editor of the .Colonist. Sin—To-day we have to perform a trust reposed in our hands for the benefit, not only of ourselves locally, but for the Colony as a whole, a trust that in the execution of we should throw on one side all sentiment and personal likirg, or disliking, and by doing so return as the m-tuber of choice oue wlio, taking,his paßfc pubJic hie as an earnest of what he can perlorm as a well-tried servant, should of itself be asoffici.-tit guarantee for us as to his future conduct* • Iv Mr A. P. Seymour the Waimea-Picton electorate will have a representative capable of takiug his position as a loyal yet distinguished follower of any man. who will carry out real retrenchment in the public service, or on the other hand take the initiative himself iv doing soWhilst retrenchment is made a mere parrot cry (conspicuous only by its vagueness of derail) by nine^tenths of the wouid-be legislators now rta iving their deserts from the people of the Colony, the proud position has been reserved for Mr Seymour of showing, even to the minutest detail, how the hydraheaded expenditure of some 600,000 struggjing colonists, can be brought within actual receipts by lapping off m ny vicious extra vagancies that were grafted on our body politic when Maoriland was gaily spending her millions where she cannot her thousands now. ' *■ ' . Fellow electors, think of all this, as clearheaded practical men you ought to, and remember on the one hand, there is to chose from the followers (most excellent and worthy ,in themselves) of the iron-willed knight, who will not be dictated to, a«d who, despite the chronic state of hard^uppishness*tbat reigns supreme from the North Cape to the Bluff, yet cries " extra taxation, extra tamtioni I must and shall have it," and this too in the face of the ' no price for anything grown," that has now ho;d of our vitals, and likely to remain bo, too, more's the pity. On the other hand we have the chance of electing a gentleman who knows, as an old State physician, where the sore or sores are, and who is prepared with a simple yet effective remefy, no ways drastic in itself, or difficult to administer, comprised in the simple formula— reduce overgrown and uncalled-for extravagance, bring your expenditure within your income, and above all things, no extra taxation. B.emetnber my friends, A P. Seymour, and no, extra taxation. Yours, &0.,. J. P. W.