THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 540, 4 December 1890, Page 3

THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

THE EXCITEMENT IN AUCKLAND. MB BEES NEARLY SURE OF VICTORY. (SPECIAL TO TH! STASDABD.) Avcklasd, last night. The elections in Auckland promise to be very lively. At the present time there are seven candidates. The Liberal Party has been swamped by the Labor delegates on the general committee, and as a result two lawyen and a merchant were chosen on the ticket: Messrs Bees, Napier, and Shera. The general body of Liberals, however, are not satisfied, and as a result Messrs Thompsm and Porter are likely to get their support. Dr. Wallis and Mr Porter are being run by employers of labor, and substantial people of the place, but as a matter of fact all the candidates for the city are Liberals. Dr. Wallie, however, is opposing Land Nationalisation, and believing in a revival of the Property vote. At present the return of Messrs Rees and Thompson is looked upon as certain, while either Mr Sbera or Mr Porter will probably have a third place. No one seems to like Mr Napier, and though the Liberals put him forward, he is not likely to get anything like a general support from them. Mr Lawrence is considered safe for Parnell. I like Sir Maurice 0 Berks's chances for Manukau beet, Mr Palmer for Waitemftta, Mr Allen for Te Ardha, and Mr Cadman for the Thames, with Mr Dargaville for the Bay of Islands, and Mr Thompson for Marsden.

Feeling runs very high in the e ity. A labor demagogue named D«s:uond|aat night, made serious allegations against Me Mitcbelson, and produced a letter purport ing to be signed by him, saying the Government would provide money to run candidates against the labor ticket To day Mr Mitchel-on filed an affidavit declaring the letter to be a forgery, and the Bar, which it the Libor ftud paper, de— Bounces De-raond In unmeasured terms Other disreputable taauci are also being re* sorted to. i» b-i >g d>g?aiaed here but elections. The newspapers are almost Wholly devoted to the eubjeGt. Thera is no doubt that it the liberal and Labor Comminea lal made a good selection of candidates they could have returned their ticket by two v< tda to one, but now they are divided on two ticket*. Mr Bees carries a good deal of weLht with both sections of the Aspite the prejudice against lawyers, while Mr Thompson has always been a Liberal advocate. Mr Porter is the only man IB the crowd who h»B ever been a laboring teen, and, singularly enough, he is placed on the Conservative ticket. His sympathies and sentiments are, however, liberal, and as be baa a good stake in the place he carries Waiehc with the working men.-Th»-ra. are 164 candidates for the whole Colony, including the Maoris elected, and of these 60 are Government, 78 Opposition, and 96 Independent, though the latter are prinoipatly Government supporters. About onethird of the candidates have already declared themselves in favor of a land tax.