WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATES RETURN.

West Coast Times, Issue 3974, 28 December 1881, Page 3

WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATES RETURN.

[ASnBURTON MAIL.] Not jocular piety, for Dr Wallis is rejected ; nor even finished declamation, coupled with the Political sentiments of a cynic, for Mr Reader Wood is rejected ; not offensive teetotalism, for Mr Speight is rejected ; not wealth, even coupled with political ability, for Mr Ormond is rejected ; not agressive Good Templarism, even when coupled with ready debating power, for Sir William Fox is rejected ; not a pleasing- speaker, coupled with a plastic political creed, for Mr Ballance is rejected ; not a bluff and jovial manner, for Mr Bunny is rejected ; not v pricker of political windbags, for Mr Seymour is rejected ; not a stonewaller, for Mr Gibbs is rejected ; not a working man's candidate, for Mr Andrews is rejected ; not a rotund and genial farmer, for Mi- Fisher is rejected ; not unobtrusive ability, and special knowledge of public works, for Mr Eichardson is rejected ; not rowdy stonewalling and inflated speeches, for Mr Reeves is rejected ; not respectable mediocrity and legal difliuseness, for Mr Stewart is rejected ; not the genial friend and agent of land speculators, for Mr Bastings is rejected ; not a pleasing voice und a finished orator, for Mr Wakefield is rejected ; not land league proclivities, and very plain speaking, for Mr Lundon is rejected.