Mr Gannon in Napier.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 521, 21 October 1890, Page 2

Mr Gannon in Napier.

The critioUnH oa Mr Gannon’s Napier s; eech have a tendency to be amusing on account of their conflicting nature. The Nows “ pile, icon ” in chia fashion A’l who heard Mr G .noon's address to the electors of Napier must admit that it was one of the finest political speeches that has ever been delivered in the colony. Every one present was favourably impressed with the candidate (except perhaps Mr Swan, who occupied a seat in the circle), and it may be tfiteree'ing <o know that he gained the support of » large number of those whose political le ninga had been hitherto in the opposite di-ection. Mr Gannon ba. been warm'y on all sides on the success of hia first masting, and his supporter, now look upon the Napier scat its an absolute certainty for him. ' ' '. Tho Tele«r«ph puts it thus Those who heard Mr Gannon last night are per - factly sure ot the wayjhe elsc ian . will ga, Mr Gannon's speech was as applicable tn Napier as. anv part of New Ze.laad, ot Aus'rail., nr K-im-chttlka dor that matter. It contained just the old stock matter that hs poured into the weary ea e ot his Wairoa sndience when hr was running Ur Bees at the last East Coast eleclion. Thera WM nothing new iu it except a garbled account of the origin nf the strikes, which was thrown in to p'easo the strikers.

The H.B. Herald ot course deal, roughly with the candidate. Wnfle saying that the speech calls tor little comment over a column space ie dev ited to omnments. The article b> gins Mr Gannon’s wftopnh doe. not call Dr much comment. D'clamation and abuse cf opponents formed tbe stock, and the seasoning was supplied by a recklcEsnees of assertion astonishing in any man who asks a body of intelligent electors to send him to Parliament to assist in making laws. wbiah may sfLct ths future of New Zealand for years to com". Take, for example, hi. on-lancht on the Free Association—a trick to oatch Unionist votes. He started Uy declaring 'hat h« would not look atit from the point Ot view of a strong I .ar'izan,.but with an unblas-ed mint). This he follnwqd up by th. moat biassed and unfounded misrepresent.lion, which did in ire credit to bis inventive powers than his love of troth.*' Th. fallacy is shown cf a sta'ement made jhk’t wealthy oani'alista, to avoid payi >g properly tax, send thrir money 10 Ana'rali* before the lime for payment comes due and bring It back three months or eo afterwards. To spend at least £2 (percent) tn save 8s Id (ocr cent.) does not suite the. Herald as a brilliant financial scheme, and it ie that such au idea nf financing accounts £ir Mr Gannon's recent appearance in the Bankruptcy Court. The article concludss : —“ For the rest, Mr Gannon is a firm Freetrader and an equally firm Protectionie'.; a strong supporter oi free andstcular State education and an rqualiy strong supporter cf Mr Pyke’s bill for bitr.'ing it up by subsidising denominations! schools ; he wants the children of tho poor to have opportunities of higher education and wool I withdraw all aid to secondary schools and so confine them to lhe wealthy. He is everything and nothing by tarns. Bunyan must have had a seventeenth century Gannon in his mind when be painted Mr Faaing-Botb Ways.”