WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATES RETURN?

Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1966, 13 January 1882, Page 4

WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATES RETURN?

(ashbuetok mail.) Not jocular piety, for Dr Wallis is rejected; not even finished declamation, coupled with the political senti ments of a cynic, for Mr Reader Wood is rejected; not offensive teetotalisin, for Mr Speight is rejected ; not wealth, coupled with political ability, tor Mr Ormond is rejected; not aggressive Good Templarism, even coupled with ready debating power, for Sir "William Fox is rejected; not a pleasing speaker, coupled with a plastic political creed, for Mr BaU lance is rejected; not a bluff and jovial manner, for Mr Bunny is rejected; not a pricker of political windbags, for Mr Seymour is rejected ; not a stonewaller, for Mr Gibbs is rejected ; not a woiking man's candidate, for Mr Andrews is rejected ; not a rotund and genial farmer, for Mr Fisher is rejected ; not unobtrusive ability, and special knowledge of pub lie works, lor Mr Richardson is rejected ; not rowdy stonewalling and inflated speeches, for Mr Reeves is rejected ; not respectable mediocrity and legal dift'usement, for Mr Stewart is rejected; not the genial friend and agent of land speculators, for Mr | Bastings is rejected ; not a pleasing roice and a finished orator, for Mr Wakefield is rejected ; not land league proclivities, and very plain speaking for Mr Lundon is rejected. WHAT EN"S U " RES A CAiNDIDATE'S REJECTION? (tabattaki budget.) What Ensures a Candidate's Re jection? Not land and railway specu lation, for Mr Driver is returned ; not swearing at bullocks in Greek, and giving Latin quotations in the House, for Mr Rolleston is returned ; not wordy and pretentious exposition of truisms witli all the zeal of a discoverer, for Mr Montgomery is returned; not Bible reading in schools, combined with the Gaming and Lotteries Act, for Mr Dick is returned ; not perpetual paid Chairmanship of Vincent County, for Mr Fyke is re» turned ; not a political whipper-in, for Mr J C. Brown is returned ; not unfulfilled pledges to benefit the whole human race, tor Sir George Grey is returned ; not persistent advocacy of oppressed natives by an iniquitous Government, for Mr Moss is returned ; not a friend of the human race, for Mr Tole is returned ; not a crusher of obstructive stonewallers, for Sir G. M. O'Rorke is returned; not the shocking example of a Parliamentary wit, for Major Harris is returned ; not a good natured sinner who has been tried and found wanting, for Mr Shee han is returned ; not plain speaking regardless of consequences, lor Mr Swanson is returned; not silence in the House and straight voting, for Mr Whyte| is returned ; not secular education, for Mr Kelly is returned ; not a bold native policy, for Mr Brjce is returned; not free trade proclivities, for, Colonel Trimble is returned ; not the imposition of 3 property tax to equalise finances, for Major Atkinson, isj returned ; not a robber of harbor endowments, for Mr Wright is re turned; not a large land owner, for Mr Beetham is returned ; not vision ary schemes of public policy, for Mr Macandrew is returned ; not denominational education, for Mr Eultou is returned ; not geuial, effusive, and long windedness, for Mr Turnbull is returned ; not independent expression of political opinions, for Mr Weston is returned ; not verbosity infinitely extended, for Mr Seddon, is returned ; not a naturalised foreigner and zealous representative, for Mr Sbrimski is returned ; not a stonewaller when souud ou the local goose, for Mr Levestam is returned; not even the Premiership of the Colony, with a decent screw, for Mr Hall is re turned.