THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 79, 24 April 1901, Page 2

THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin, —Thanks for your courtesy in publishing my last letter be>ring upon the missing question* of tho present epoch of this fair City, which in the opinion of a stranger has such a grand future in piospct., if only tho ri!:h men are at tho held ofullanvs a ■ -rl k>pt there. Being of a natur.illy inquisitive term of wiod, some wight call ma ft " Paul Pry." I have be.n upon a searching expedition and havo discovered that Mayor IJo_kt ill his a a good tnmennd a clean i&'jrd and is io no way connected v ith t ie Tammany ring which I urn iufornr.d existrf here to the detriment of the welfare of tho pwpla at large, and only bonrficial *o a choic.) circle who aro j i.ilous uf straugois and lave in wire than one instance) nue< mded in diivctiog iudepndant capital from coining horr, I thus showing plainly stdlishuess cf a jdang.uous ua'uiv, and this founding (one's good d»eds and flaunting them before ihe public, sounds hollow, and i - nothing but .sham, which ell rightthinking pe.sons must see at a glance. 1 havo been pormitt <d to piv.usa some old documents, and as y.ii), like myself, are not; oJJ i-esidi.n's in 'his city, they may also bo ucv to you ami of interest to the voters 011 Wo-lmsd-iy. I herewith send you tho letter from which t.lO extract is taken to prove its vcrouitv :—" Tho holding of tho office of Mayor in gomn towns implies t> some extent the possession of the confidence of th« burgessis, bin iu 3S T e\v Plymouth this is not «o. IWe w the strongest disinolir>atiijtis to accept tho ollico Ihtj', and it is with Ilio utmost. il'llicn] y that any person of ivspen'abili v <,-1 ri l>» in.luc .•! to t4ike io." Thiss-«• Mr. i'Mito', has c'i tuged m'ti/c t':;is i mov.s l-'t'O'. 1 was pen-uH, for lii mj w.«ils cm-

, not, , lie aj'p ir.r ii, uo ir pio- „ sent; Miyor, who i.-. liijlily iv.-p.'cfc <J t und woll co'.ineC'Cil a'- li-mie, I'sis !.h'< implicit coriri'ioiH-e i f oi' the , i iuht-miuJnii people of fclii- <: : r,y, - f thii 'i Wofbiesfluy'ri voting will no iKm'-it Ini n g c 'iivineitig pro if by Iho votws retu> uj- i-'ir AJr. E. J)iick; ill by ru ovunvjio-'rn-j. in l ; m'jodty, and tliu.s ttvicli thu .New -j i.'lymouih tamm'iiy ring a \vho!«couio U'sson. sho'viii" iltem the I'o'lv , o' to foiiit uw-uiUMo , >: uulicl it s i>;to th,-! iiiglt {i sjt.i.'u of, j. ' 'hi,.f a! J'.it > f.: .• -1 nut' . " j f T't J. IV