A Suggestion.

Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 2014, 28 July 1887, Page 2

A Suggestion.

[to the editor.] Sir, —There was a very good article in last Saturday’s Mail under the heading of “ Echoes from the Bush.” Beading of this kind is instructive to the electors at the present time. If all we read in the journals of the colony about depression, hard times, retrenchment, &c., be true, it is for the electors to deeply think, and for you to put before them matter for deep thought on the subject of Representation. If all the evils wo read of exist, it is for the electors to consider who are tiie best men to cure the evil. Evidently an old experienced hand has a better chance to cope with it than a new chum. Electors ought to seriously consider this, that at no time in the past were men of experience and sound judgment required to represent them in Parliament than now. Certainly the Waipawa Electorate has a goodly number of candidates to choose from, and the electors have no reason to complain on that score—live ofthem, three on one side and two on the other. Messrs Tanner, Sutton and Harding are professedly on the same platform. There may be small matters of detail that they may differ on, but their main principles are the same. The three cannot be returned, and their triple candidature is rather confusing. Of the other two candidates—good men no doubt—their presence would not be missed in the House. Now, to do away with this confusion to the electors, the former candidates should go into friendly committee and agree which one of them will stand, and abido by that decision.

Their cause would be much more certain of success ; or, if they cannot agree to this let the three retire and suggest another another candidate to the electors, and give that candidate their individual and collective support. This may bo a new way of puttng it, but more unlikely things have succeeded. If they will not agree to either of these courses let them go into a field and have a triangular dual, a la “ Midshipman Easy” and pop away at one another until only one remains.—l am, &c., Settle It. 29th July, 1887.