A Word to Unionists and Others.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 509, 20 September 1890, Page 2

A Word to Unionists and Others.

Ito Tits EMTOB.

Sm,—Seeing by your report of the meeting ot creditors in Gannon’s estate, lint there was an attempt by some ot his fond admirers to introduce party politics into the affair, I think we cannot do better than take up ihe challenge thrown down. As one who has hfoherto supported what has been known as the Liberal party I object to having discredit thrown upon me in this way. VVh'en a man is down I don’t believe in kicking him, I but knowing what I do know I can point to | oases io which we should have fee’ings ths reverse of sympathetic. At the meeting in Gannon’s estate you say that most of the voting .was by proxy. Can you not tell us bow those proxies were obtained? Little birds will twitter, and we sometimes learn more than the papers tall us. One of the holders of proxies, I, am told, is a gantleman from outside, who, if I am not mistaken, once left the place with sundry creditors to remember that they had had their pound's worth repaid by only a few shillings. Is he one ot our party,-too ? There was soms talk about this famous block in Gannon’s estate, there being some doubts whether there would be any residue after the costs had been paid, but no one seemed to question whether the year 2000 would, not be reached before there could be any settlement. An estate that shows debts to ths extent of £3128, without there being any business risks to contend with, or any reason given, is, as Dominie Sampson would siy, Prodigious! But we shah see how tares the promissd eleciiin to the House of Uepreaentatives, which one admirer disclosed was the. thing aimed at. The estate should be a good remuneration to ihe electors, for surely here is a man who will know how to take care of the public purse. To be serious for a moment I ihink it would be better for man who can afford to lose hundreds nf pounds to boast less of their magnanimity towards bankrupts who happen to be of the' same party. There are many benevolent objects to which the money might be better applied, or it might be devoted to the cause of education, or to some of our languishing local institutions. Say we only take Mr Maude’s item of £lOO, how beneficially that amount might be expended in aid of local institutions. In conclusion, I for one say that I can no longer give my support to such a party if ite m antle is to be used to protect men who may well be left to reap the whirlwind of which they have sown the seeds, and I shall further consider it my duty to try and induce all Unionists to use their influence against the return of such men to the House.—l am, &c.,

Thue Liberal.