The Napier Seat.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 501, 25 September 1890, Page 3

The Na pier Seat.

DRESSING DOWN MR GANNON.

The Napier Conservative morning paper, the Herald, ig rough on Mr. Gannon. It says, under the Please I‘ve Come :—MrM. J. Gannon is kind enough to inform the people r.f Napier, by advertiaement in this japue, that h« seeks to repre ent Napier in Parliament. This being a free country Mr Gannon can do as he pleases, but we fancy it-.wiH strike moat people that his presence is much more urgently required in Gisborne, in connection with some bankruptcy proceedings there, -han it is here. Mr Gannon, we believe, claims to represent ’h* Great Liberal Party in Napier, but it is quire common talk that he does nothing of kind, and that in announcing himself as & candidate he is doing po against the wishes of a number of those who help to form the party, and whose claim to be heard is greater than that of Mr Gannon, seeing that they are residents and that he is an outsider. It is always a bad sign when a man ha* to leave a place where he is well known to seek Parliamentary ' honors in a place where he is practically a I'ranger, and then to cams uninvited ia a [ worse fign still. The Liberal Party seems fated to be made the sport rf outsiders,' Mr Gannon’s oondidatnre being only in accordance with the rule which introduced us to Joe Ivea?. Napier seems to b 3 looked’upon by a certain clas* of people as a kind of happy hunting ground, where anyone who win only prance around and say Liberal rf'en enough can look for good things Mr Gannon ha* not even got theexcas<» whi h “ Joey ” Jvprs oonld put forward, for the latter was invited by the prominent men in the Liberal camp here, where Mr Gannon rimnettes i-ifn the political arena with nothing than “ Please I’ve come.’’ W? are afraid that Mr Gannon, who has come for feathers, will go home plucked. In fact we look tn ppe his candidature repudiated hy the very people on whose beha’f he professes tn enme forward, for the Liberals hav* learned the le«son that the electors, if cal’ed unnn to choose between rival candidates, require that they shall be local m°n. In a later issue the Herald says of the minting of the Liberal Association : — “The meeting was an adjourned one and was for the purpose of hearing from Mr J. G Gilberd whether h* would or would not consent, to be a candidate at the anprnaohing election. The talk was ra'hor general, not to sav vague, as Mr Gilberd had not made up his mind, and lh?re

was considerable bitterness of feeling over Mr Gannon’s action in announcing himself unasked, It was considered that he had taken advantage nf the difficulty the association had in finding r local candidate, and had announced himself in the hope that he could force the association’s hand, and- of preventing any local candidates having the chance tn succeed. Some went so far as to hint, gotio voce, that the Ormond* were raving Mr Gannon’s expenses, ro as to split the party vote if a local candidate did stand. Nn decision was come to, th« fe?.'ing being that failing the possibility ol finding a local man worthy to represent the party, even such a candidate a* Mr Gannon would be preferable to a walk over. After the meeting broke up, however, several impromptu gatherings in the streeta decided that Napier bad heen treatpd to quite enough specimens from Poverty Bay.”