WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATES RETURN?
(abhburton mail.) Not jocular piety, for Dr Wallis is rejected; not even finished declamation, coupled with the political sentiments of a cynic, for Mr Reader Wood is rejected ; not offensive teetotalism, for Mr Speight is rejected; not wealth, coupled with political ablity, for Mr Ormond is rejected; not agressive Good Templarism, even coupled with already debating power, for Sir Willam Fox is rejected ; not a pleasing speaker, coupled with a plastic political creed, for Mr Ballance is rejected; not a bluff and jovial manner, for Mr Bunny is re jected ; not a pricker of political windbags, for Mr Seymour is rejected i not a stonewaller, for Mr Gibbs is rejected; not a working man's candidate, for Mr Andrews is rejected ; not a rotund and genial farmer, for Mr Fisher is rejected; not unobtrusive ability, ,and special knowledge of public works, for Mr Richardson is rejected; not rowdy stonewalling and inHatied' speeches, for Mr Reeves is rejected; not respectable mediocrity and legal diffusement, for Mr Stewart is rejected ; not the genial friend and agent of land speculators, for Mr Bastings is rejected; not a pleasing voice and a finished orator, for Mr Wakefield is rejected ; not land league proclivities, and very plain speaking for Mr Lundon is rejected.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1038, 20 January 1882, Page 2
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212WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATES RETURN? Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1038, 20 January 1882, Page 2
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