WELLINGTON MAYORALTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 112, 2 May 1908, Page 6

WELLINGTON MAYORALTY.

A JiJTJ'KK enMIvNT. ill,. Wellington mavoral election was markcd with .1 -0..<1 deal of bitterness. A heap u) mmkl was throw 11 almul. and tin- Cil ndidale.s lllflllsclvtVi WW not above pa-ting one another. 11l tin. inomrii! iif victory. when. lie canic to thank 1 lie ratepayers for j.ul tin- Inn, ai (he lop ii! the pull. Mr. lli-dup was still actuated hv hitter feelings. Mis speech makes iincilifying reading. Air. llislop's letter feeling, mu.-l hnv ( . been dead encd liir I In* luuinclll. Hiwere, to say th ( . least. ung'-iicroiis and made in tlic worst, po-sihie tusk'.' lie was jM'rtectly satislicd, lie said (we 'pintc from the 'limes' report! from hicxpcrienio of the ollice of Mayor and of the working of the t'ity l.'oiuicil. Ilia' it would have I a pulili- calami! v to Wellington had their ibvi-itm «inif tlie other way. Tlhtc were many reasons iK'sidcs those all'ceting I he manage - mi'iit of the eily why they oiighl io have given their vote in the way they did. There was 110 rca-on under the sun. mi far as lie knew, in re-prcl t" Ihe management of miinieipal matters, why Air. Ailkeii should lv.ve (xhibilci 1 lie i-elli-liness li t > had show ii in e lining forward on lliis occasion. However, that w-.i- one thing. The oilier tiling was this: lie wa- conscious ol Ihe fact that during (In- last three year.- lie (Hail's of 111,, rity hail licin in a tniii Ii lieiter.condition tiian they had ever been in Ivfore, and it would have been mo-i discouraging to any person coming forward. and dir-eonraying to the public spirit, if they had sanctioned the unworthy tactic- that had l>een re-orled to in tin- election. The result of the election had shown the soundness of heart of tlie burgesses of Wellington, and it also showed that thev were not going to he taken in by chair. lie liad had experience of public life now for about thirty-two years, and he did not think he had ever experienced •anything like what had I advanced oil this occasion. New doctrine-, new crimes, had been invented for the moment, and there had been a. wont of straightforwardness ill this contest which" lie hoped would never he repeated in the future. However, his heart was full of gratitude at. that moment to Mr." Aitken and hi.- friend*, for the election had shown to the fullest degree the people's views, fie was determined in future to lie worthy of the respect and confidence that had lieen reposed in him by over nine thousand burgesses of tlie city of Wellington. It was something to he proud of tli,-it he hail received a vole on that occasion equal to the total vote east upon the previous occasion, and he could as-uiy them that during the next year he would devote all the energies he had towards the advanr-enient of the inlerests of Wellington. "Again." concluded Mr. lliship. "I thank you from tlie bottom of my heart for the expression of opinion which has lieen conveyed through ' the ballot-box to-dav.''

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS Xu order to sell high-grade goods the salesman should, in some degree, take ihc part, of a high-grade man. It often happens that u salesman in required to sell a class ot goods more expensive than lie could personally hope, to own. The customer may lie wealthy, mid free I from ! iie necessity of considering diil'erca c.. in price, which to the salesman, according to his personal standard, might be the alt-deciding factor. If the .-ii- [inner leels that the salesman's reuiiiiks are merely spoken parrot-like, and that lie really has no appreciation of the point of view from which the customer regards the article, he loses com iif tcin'ji in his recommendations. The comments of the salesman do not correspond to the thoughts of the customer, and the effect is often worse than if lie . li"d sai.l nothing, -Imt had merely shown Ibe goods. It becomes necessary, thcrei'i re. for the salesman, in order to be successful, nol only to know the goods thorougldy, but also to have some'adequate appreciation of the way the enslomer regards tlieir various points, and lie must forget himself and become, in a rsense, the other man. He must imagin.' himself a millionaire in order to properly sell his goods to a millionaire.