POLITICAL CANDIDATES AT NEXT WELLINGTON ELECTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8739, 27 March 1890, Page 3

POLITICAL CANDIDATES AT NEXT WELLINGTON ELECTION.

Commenting on those who are likely to contest the Wellington City electorate, the Catholic Times thus comments on the anticipated candidates :—: — " Mr Duthie has as yet given few signs and tokens of the faith that is in him, but it may be safely predicted that there is nothing revolutionary about him, and that, if elected, he will respect the " sacred rights nf property " and never convulse the House with eloquence. He is essentially a business man, which means that he knows how to look alter his own business ■with remarkable shrewdness. He, it is true, once demonstrated the possession of some poetical instinct — that was when he yearned for a town hall and a big organ, | but he is not often taken that way. An I 7e*te, he is a large-sized Scotchman in a tall hat from Wanganui, and he has no very deadly enemies or very bitter friends that ever I heard of. If he stands he will —fall. Mr Fisher is almost too well-known to need description. He is a large person vith a bald head. He will go in for Wellington hands down. If ho curbs an evil propensity for letter -writing he will probably be Premier of New Zealand some day. Mr Jellicoe is a medium sized solicitor with two missions — to demonstrate the ignorance of all local lawyers, and to amuse the gentlemen in soiled Jinen, tho regular habitute of the R.M. Court. In addition to this Mr Jellicoe is the legal champion of all tho "poor and downtrodden," but whether he charges less for it than the ordinary solicitor I am uuablo to say. Mr Jollicoe continually poses ub an attorney-! : ke Ajax defying the lightning. Why he defies the lightning, or wlmt the lightning has done that he should defy it, or where the lightning is that is defied, are nil mysteries to everyone but Mr Jellicoe und the gentlemen in the shady linen and b'mged eyes \\\io applaud lihw when he ih performing tbe lightning feat aforesaid. Mr Jellicoe's chief political qualifications, so faras can be judged, arc a loud voice and a basilisk stare. Tho voice may stand him in goodßtcad at tho buntings, but it is doi btl'ul whether his celebrated glance will have a very depressing effect on a political opponent, or quell Mr Speaker to any appreciable extent. However, ho iR now understood to bo learning a speech by heart, and J.efore a looking-glass, that will prove perfectly i: resistible. It would be a good thing for Wellington, and hotter for Mr Jellieoe, were he c cc.cd, for he would, io. one. week in the Houw, nnd his Icvo), and ♦hat fevol would bo » lowly ow, Tha

bably refuse to return v man whoso greatest claim on them appears to bo that be has made a good deal of money out of them by litigation. The next two gentlemen on our little list may he grouped — Messrs. Levin and Johnstoi; the former's chance, if he offers^ is po - sibly a good one ; but we hardly think Mr Johnston would get iv on the popular voice. MrMaedonjild's political motives are not deemed by the Wellington voters to bear any very strong family resemblance to the wife of the late J. Civsar, Esq. Dr Newman speaks for himself — which indeed he invariably does, and with coiisMurablo fluency. The ungclie doctor may not have perpetrated any startling feats oi" statesmanship ; the thunders of his eloquence may not have made any foreign potentate shiver to speak of ; ho may not have led his countrymen to victory o'er the blood-bedowcd battlefield, but look what <m advertisement he is !