The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning. Saturday, December 7, 1889. VANITY OR LOVE?

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 387, 7 December 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning.

Saturday, December 7, 1889. VANITY OR LOVE?

. , Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God's, and truth’s.

Contrary to every expectation Mr Arthur has resolved to tempt the fates. Strong in this resolution, and satisfied that there is no risk so far as that is concerned, he has lodged his ten pounds with the Returning Officer, and yesterday, amidst the plaudits of admiring friends, experienced for the first time the pleasant sensation of being legally nominated a candidate for Parliamentary honors, Should Mr Arthur never enter Parliament, this one day, out of the six thousand twa hundred and odd that he has been in the district, must ever

have for him pleasant memories. We can quite imagine the thrill til delight that electrified Mr Arthur’s frame as Mr Booth announced that he (Mr Arthur) was duly nominated. We are no longer left in doubt why the gentleman came out. At Ormond he confessed that his determination to stand was made in the belief that he was to have what in vulgar parlance is termed a “ walk-over.” It would be madness to doubt the word of such a perfect being, and with that historical address in our mind we can quite believe what Mr Arthur says. It, however, astonishes us to find him still persisting in his candidature, and though we would not question the sincerity of his love for his fellow.settlers we cannot hely> feeling, when we see him wasting his time and money, that “ Not love but vanity set love m 4»»I» liLa D C\C AAHvi-a iiinuA IVTs*

Arthur the biggest duffer in the colony he is sure of support from a certain party. He Is not such a duffer as to object to the support of the Liberal party, and all his energies seem to be expended in endeavoring to secure that support. Were not the members of that party, by virtue of their education and training, intelligent enough to discern the nominee of a certain class beneath the garb of “ the intelligent squatter,” his efforts might be crowned with success. His first task is to convince us that we are not members of a party, and that the Liberals are such only in name. He with his gigantic intellect would have us believe that the people are divided into the two opposing classes of loafers and working men. Five years ago Mr Chambers, a staunch supporter of Mr Arthur, attempted a similar division, and said the only two classes were the squatter or sheepfarmers like himself and the working men. Mr Arthur and Mr Chambers being the mouthpieces of the same privileged class gives us reason’to wonder whether their definitions are synonymous. On the hustings Mr Arthur jubilantly produced what he thought to be evidence of our own inconsistency, but we challenge Mr Arthur, or anyone else, to prove that we have ever deserted the colors of the Liberal party, and bad Mr Arthur read the article referred to with more care, before he jumped to conclusions, he would see that we spoke of Mr Rees as a man, and not as the representative of the Liberals. Since that time Mr Rees has been selected as such representative, and we are quite willing to drop objections to the person for the sake of the party. Let Mr Arthur study soma of our articles upon subsequent events, and he will at ones see that we have good reasons for not supporting his candidature. We can afford to laugh at these attempts to discredit the Party of Progress, for really they are too ridiculous to require any further notice. No one but a fool would argue that the interests of the industrious and the landed classes are indentical. The industrial classes of the East Coast have been too long unrepresented, and it may be news to the Gisborne people to hear that since the boundaries of the electoral district were altered in IBBr, out of four elections a majority of Gisborne electors has in every case voted against the representative who has been duly returned, On the last two occasions a defeated candidate, in each case a Liberal, received the largest number of votes, Wairoa, Ormond, Tologa Bay, and the other centres of population have suffered in a similar manner though not perhaps to such a large extent. How long, we ask, is this to be allowed to continue ? That the industrial classes should thus be practically disfranchised, because the sheepfarmers can influence the votes of their station hands in spite of the vaunted secrecy of the ballot box, is intolerable. The Liberal party has hitherto been split up or has had the Press against it. On this occasion we find it combined for the first time, and with the Press at its back, and now a great effort should be made to assert once for all that the Liberal party is so in more than name. The fact that there have been a few deserters should not be allowed to damp our hopes, but should encourage us to strive the more for victory and inspire the electors with a sense of the great importance of the coming conflict, and although we confidently anticipate success we earnestly hope that not a vote will be wasted. Remember, MR REES REPRESENTS THE LIBERAL PARTY.