MR BUNNY'S TACTICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 251, 29 August 1879, Page 2

MR BUNNY'S TACTICS.

To the Editor of the "WAiRAiurA daily. Sik—ln listening to Mr Bunny's address to the electors last week, it was worthy of observation liow admirably he lias learned the tactics of his chief. The leader of the Opposition, Sir William Fox, in a speech delivered some two sessions afo, very aptly described Sir George Grey as an adept in the art of throwing dust in the eyes of his follower?. Mr Bnnny has been a very'apt scholar, and endeavors the same arts with his constituents. He would hoodwink the electors with regard to the fact that he and Mr Beetham almost always vote on opposite tides, with regard to measures that affect the colony as a whole, by telling them that they always work harmoniously togetlierin regard to measures that affect the district, utterly ignoring this, that if his vote is against the interests of the colony as a whole, it is therefore against the interests of the district, which is a part of the w'.iole. Most certainly, what affects the whole, affects the parts of which the whole consists. Could anything be more self-evident than that in voting with the Government on the question of maladministration, he voted against the colony. Again, in explaining his reasons for voting for the Maori dual vo';e, a measure which, as is so well known, would virtually have disfranchised six or eight constituencies, which would have made it 'so that mere nominees of the Government would be returned. Ho said that in doing so he was obliged to follow his party, but did not show why he voted against the Disqualification Act, also a measure of his party. The reason why is pretty well known, On account of Mr Bunny's action in the House the representation of the Wairarapa has been practically a mere cypher, and surely the electors will not be so blinded as again to return a representative who virtually nullifies the vote of the other member for the district.

Mr Pharazyn's address to the electors was well described by Major Smith as being the most statesmanlike he had read at the present time/and if the district is to be really represented and not continue a mere nullity, Mr Pharazyn is the candidate who ought to be returned alow; with Mr Beetham.

Regarding Mr Beetham, comment is. superfluous, as his qualifications and past services arc so well known and appreciated that his return at the head of the poll is only what he deserves.

To those of the electors who feel the dust in their eyes as the result of Mr Bunny's " stump oratory," I would say, reflect; get the dust out and vote on the right side on the polling day, and so save the colony from the perpetuation of maladministration and incompetency.—l am, etc., An Elector.