Who will be the Next?

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 378, 16 November 1889, Page 2

Who will be the Next?

[io THE EDITOB.j

Sib, —So our old friend, Mr W. L. Rees, has notified his intention of again standing for Parliament, undaunted by the many severe lessons which in the past he has received and conveyed. Well, there is nothing like making things merry, and if we can’t get any solid enjoyment we can at least have all the froth of the serio comic performances that we will shortly be entertained with on the cheap. I think we ought to support Rees if it is only to enable us to pension off one of our lawyers, so as to let the place get a little rest. Even Mr Gannon is agreed that such a course is advisable, and has forgotten the Bay of Islands affair and other little incidents and placed his name in a conspicuous place on the requisition to Mr Rees. Probably the newspaper that supports the Assets Company business will also support Messrs Rees and Gannon, whose names have always been so prominent in any reference to the affairs of a certain Native Lands Company. As they are both men whom I should like to see io good positions I suggest that for the present vacancy we put in Mr Bees, keeping Mr Gannon in reserve for the next. Neither of those esteemed gentlemen is likely to meet the fate of poor Allan McDonald, Sam Locke, and Andrew Graham. These latter three have had their day and we can cast them aside, but Messrs Rees and Gannon, like a pair of political twins, working hand in hand for the common good, will be able to profit by the experience of the unfortunate triple, Allan, Sam, and Andrew. When wa have put Mr Rees in and the dissolution takes place, he will be able to leave us—swallowlike, as you put it Mr Editor—and then go to the ” bussom ” of his family in Auckland, where ha may get promoted into the seat of one of those fuddle-headed politicians that have tbeir existence there, and wa can get Mr Gannon off our bands by sending him down to Wellington, where the birds of a feather will flock together, The scheme is so ingenious that it is deserving of success, and Mr Rees will also make a worthy representative of that financial institution for which be acted as agent on his recent trip to England, while Mr Gannon would make a splendid representative of the credit of Gisborne. Let us put our shoulders to the wheel and have a man who can jaw. There is nothing like having a iongwinded man; a long.winded horse generally “oops the divvies,” and in money matters long-winded men generally get on the best.—l am, etc,, Bletkebskitb.