To the editor of the colonist.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7005, 7 May 1891, Page 4

To the editor of the colonist.

Sib,— lt Is a fair presumptionjthat the Key Mr" Jsitt^iiqi^ ueekic^g 4ojbe', a member of the. LicinwngCommittee, considers he has some ■AlMMiffgiM?* -aft' »ft:iftlf3ji»« ;tQ eritioif*. I <yinnot but lool* upon iue CflUon

of capability for the office he seeks otherwise than a greatjconceit. Did he/,shqw*his ability; ; /when he" meddled in the labor^ .difficulty ? Did he show.Kis iability in his crusade against gambling and the enjoyment of-niany at race meetings? Didhe show gentlemanly or kmdlyj i feeing in his lecture upon Mr Glatfitone, when fe^thoiight tbthrow a stranger light upon his idol'bv attempting tocast ! iii the shade a, contemporary statesman, whp : earned : ;tl^adnur. atiori of allclasscs. of politicians ? He muit, be icqiiainfed with Mr Disraeli's descnpr tion "of -the G.OM.' gettiHg intoxicated with' the exuberance 6f . his own verbosity. ■, The rev gentleman should bear in mind thai there r are : other, kinds of intemperance ihan that arising from alcohol. : Gifted with fluency of speech, and doubtless a rapid conception of ideas, he is sadly in.< ] want of a counterbalance in the shape; of; a ; cool and thoughtful mind, and without such weightheisnotfitto act. for the welfare of the community. To revel in Radicalism, however extreme, is evidently bis hobby. In a headlongj headstrong manner he. will rush, Don Quixote-like, at the windmill-modera-tion^" thought, judgment/ all consideration thrown recklessly away. Let him keep to his pulpit, for which I presume he was educated. He may possibly* g^in some credit there. I hope, however, that. the result of the poll tomorrow will show that the inhabitants" consider it an insult for him to step out of his sphere of working. . Yours, &o, • " Cohsistencs. ; May 6, 1891. ; . I