CORRESPONDENCE.

Woodville Examiner, Volume VIII, Issue 805, 25 November 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(Correspondence is invited upon subjects of genera interest, but we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by the writers.]

THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —ls it not too bad of the writers to your paper to laud Mr Burnett so much and to cry down Mr Syms ? What for ? What has Mr Syms done to have so much abuse tacked on to him ? Since Mr Syms has been m Woodville has he not proved himself to be in every sense of the word a gentleman ? I have yot to learn that it is a crime to attend to one’s own business, I think that the charily of Mr Syms is at least equal to that of Mr Burnett. Will Mr Burnett plead the cause of the poor unfortunate free ? I trow not. But many poor suffering has Mr Syms prescribed for. How did Mr Burnett relieve, in his capacity of Mayor, the poor unemployed who applied to him for work on the relief works ? Did the Mayor with a gush of charity at once send them to work ? No, sir, bat told them that as Ion" as there was a tender in tl e paper he could not relieve them. Now the fact was that there was a tender for a few acres of toi-toi clearing, which would employ about 5 or G men 3 or 4 weeks’ work, and that work was not available for 3 weeks, and these 20 men who applied had to starve because there was work for a very few for a short time. But the truth is they do not belong to the Woodville clique, and have no right to live, and I ask all working men to ignore such and vote for Mr Syms. the socalled “new man.” Do all you can to break up monopoly, even of the honor of chief magistrate. We had enough of that when Mr So wry was Mayor. Our socalled “ new ” men were to disgrace our Parliament, but what is the sequence? Why,'New Zealand never had a better House of Representatives, and never had her work better done. Well then, let the “new man” come to the front, and do not fail to vote for the “ new man,” than whom there is none belter respected in Woodvilb.—l am &c., Working Man, [This letter was evidently intended by the writer for yesterday’s issue, but did .not reach us til after the Examiner had gone to press.— Ed. E.]