MR GRAHAM'S CANDIDATURE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12405, 21 November 1908, Page 2

MR GRAHAM'S CANDIDATURE.

Mr Graham's general committee met at the Kacnabito Hall last evening. The building was crowded. The chairman. Mr A. A. Grace, opened the proceedings by impressing the cniurniUea with tho necessity , for them to strain every, cerve. in , order that the result of the pn!l, ' nsxt Tuesday. might be as decisively i in tho favour of their candidate as j was that at the liist ballot. He as-! sured them that success could ociy | be gained by' bringing all tho candidate's supporters to tho poll, and could be lost-only through over-con-fidence and inaction. From their j enthusiastic applause, he siid, it, wag evident that tbey toolf his words to heart. Mr Graham said that reports bfid besn spread tbat he was one of thosa who helped to plaoo tho Second Ballot Act on tho Statute Hoik, but a reference to Hansard of Bnp tembfir 2nd would show that he had opposed tho Bill strongly, -anJ lihci voted aprninst it — unfortunately unsuccessfully. He thanked his commitUe fir the way ttiey were working, and gave cartain facts which sfiowod that the decisive result of next Tuasd.iy's poll would be in ac- i , covJanco with tho^r desire. If re I turned — and his success was within i rfach— he would do his utmost in Parliament to repeal the Sc<cond Ballot Act, which v?ns being the • cause of much extra work on the I part of his committees, and as well <13 of the necessity of his supporters going again to the poll, lie had not appealed in vain for his "supporter? ! to rally round him, and they had 1 stood by him and would stiind by him to the f-nd, and win. (Loud applause. ) lie hart many gratuitous p 'onuses from penplo who had not • voted for him last Tuesday who had now voluntarily promised to supprirt him next Tuesday; aud n a->y friends who would hn re gnno away but for the second b.illot, were remaining in the district in order tbat they might vote for him next wtek. He tbank- ' e-1 them for their enthusiasm and energy, and felt confident that they i would be a? successful at the second ballot as ttiey had been at tho first. — Uommun'catd. It will be seen by advertisement that Mr Graham will speau at the Drill Hall on Monday evening, when doubtless there will" be a large at tendanc?. Mr Graham's committees meet to-night, when a full attend- . ance is reqnestd.