Mr Rees and Home Rule.

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

Mr Rees and Home Rule.

[to THE EDITOR.]

Sib,— ln a milk and watery article you infer that W. L. Bees, Esq,, is bidding for votes by having taken part in the reception of one of the Irish Delegates (Dillon), As a matter of abeolute fact, I do not believe in Home Rule, but the candidate, who is associated with Sir George Grey, and through him with the Might Hon. W. E. Gladstone, has never deserted bis colors, believing that there are wrongs needing redress. To cruelly accuse a man of pandering to a cause for votes is not manly, or, even in time of political itrlte, journalistic.—l am, etc., J. G. Henderson. (We never accused Mr Rees of “ pander, ing ” to a cause, as Mr Henderson states, Even a “ milk and watery article ” appears in this case to have bad so muoh effect as to make a supporter of Mr Rees feel it necessary to offer some apology. If our article was weak—-and our readers are the best judges—what it lacked in point is strengthened by Mr Henderson’s reply. His ingenious nee of the names of Sir George Grey and the Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone shows him to be an adept in political warfare, but the working men of this district know Mr Rees too well to allow the names of Gladstone and Grey to act as a magic wand in gaining their sympathy tor a lawyer who once resided in Gisborne.— Ed. STANDAim.j