CORRESPONDENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

PLEA FOR THE LABOR CANDIDATES. [TO THE EDITOK.) Sir, —We are on the eve of another municipal election, and therefore the intelligence of the electors of Gisborne shall once again be on their trial in. the choice of good and true men to represent their interests. I have not written with the object of reviewing the merits or demerits of the intending candidates for municipal honors, but merely to try and emphasise the growing need of having men as city representatives who have no axe to grind—men who are unselfishly inclined to turn the rough edge as well as the fine on the wheel of honest representation. Therefore, I would ask the men and women who will be responsible for the advancement of the town, to endeavor to give an opportunity to the Labor candidates—which candidates represent a cause so inseparably bound -with the best aims and. ambitions of an aspiring race —to contribute their share in fairly representing a section almost wholly without a voice in the legislation or this town. As I am not writing with the object of “sounding'the trumpet” of any candidate, I might be permitted to say the Labor party are ably and respectably represented, and their candidates should bid fair to enlist your suffrages in the cause they have at issue—the uplifting of the common lot of those who constitute the major portion of the citizens of Gisborne —the workers and tlieir belongings. I shall not be deemed out of place in giving more scope to the objective of my letter in the shape of enunciating the platform wlhicth the Labor candidates are identified with. It has been an old-established policy to spurn the cause of labor aspirations • and instead to crawl at the heel of men of vested interests, but to-day, thanks to tho growth of education, the people are beginning to be more in sympathy and harmony with those who advocate the common cause of all, and particularly the working classes. United in this" cause we stand, divided we fall, and inflict .a tolling blow oil the many who constitute this democratic circle—who are dependent on their daily toil fov their subsistence WI&iIESS.”