MR SEDDON'S VISIT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 1500, 5 December 1899, Page 3

MR SEDDON'S VISIT.

/"„ , .(To the Editor.) • ;Siri-^I See) by the newspapers that the . intelligence ef the electors of Wanganui is". ; to ba .insulted by the fact that the aid of the Hon. Richard J. Seddon is to be called in to Mr Willis's assistance. So far . as .those favourable to Mr Carson are concerned tjiis is satisfactory, as it is a clear sign "of the weakness of'Mr Willis's 'caWidature, b^t the' Wstitisiactory' part about it;.'^i far'iis the " colony ' }s ' concerned, is . fhat'rWy ihese, ' eleot»Bneorjng pereginations pi .Mi' Heddon are at the colony's expense n»mo .idea- of the 'cost of which was very ulf'.jr "shown '.by Mr Carson at his meeting im '"Fridiiy ' evening. The working men "would .do^w^ll to ponder over this vast squandering "of money on the part of their professed friend, whicK"speaks not for the welfare of the colony but simply for the purpose. of maintaining his hold upon the Treasury Benches, and" consider how many families could be maintained oomfortab'.y for the sum annually spent in tkis way by Mr Seddon. It ia high time the working men rose in their wjatlr and emph iticnlly showed the Hon. gentlean that they recognise they a*B simply being made use of to keep a spendthrift in office, snc : . have done with all those who servilely follow liinl, thus, destroying his power. -^f am , etc , *'"'" - V'V ■ WORKER. Wurfganut ; December 3rd, 1899