OBSERVATIONS
ON PERSONS POLITICAL
rls^il^E are now within a week of the General |P|jM||§; Election ; all the candidates are in the field, Iwiilllf ani * neir political creeds are before the eiflJlgPsS country; and it is therefore fitting that I should examine their personal and political qualifications. In what lam about to write, Ido not presume to advise old colonists who are longer and better acquainted than I am with many of the candidates, their political creeds and deeds. My sole desire is to give information zv.i guidance to those requiring it. A newspaper man has exceptional opportunities of seeing the true character of public men, and he has perforce to study their political career and utterances ; his remarks are therefore entitled to more weight than those of the electioneering agent or tout— always supposing that he expresses his opinion freely and fearlessly. If the Observer at all deserves the name of an independent journal, then those electors who are seek- J ing for light will not despise the O.M.s bulls- eye, though its rays have not the electric brightness of starry hosts or herald angels. I propose to notice the city, suburban and country candidates, starting from the centre and working outwards. First of all cornea
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 622, 29 November 1890, Page 3
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