WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATE'S REJECTION?

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1038, 20 January 1882, Page 2

WHAT ENSURES A CANDIDATE'S REJECTION?

(taranaki budget.) What Ensures a Candidate's Rejecton ? Not land and railway speculation, for Dr Driver is returned ; not swearing at bullocks in Greek, and giving Latin quotations in the House, for Mr Rolleston is returned ; not wordy and petentious expositon of truisms with all the zeal of a discoverer, for Mr Montgomery as returned ; not Bible reading in schools, combined with the Gaming and Lotteries Act, for Mr Dick is returned ; not perpetual paid Chairmanship of Vincent County, for Mr Pyke is re turned ; not a political whipper-in, for Mr J. C. Brown is returned : not unfulfilled pledges to benefit the whole human race, for Sir George Grey is returned ; not persistent advocacy of oppressed natives by an iniquitous Government, for Mr Moss is returned ; not a friend of the human race, for Mr Tole is returned ; not a crusher of obstructive stonewallers, for Sir G. M. O'Rorke is returned; not the shocking example of a Parliamentary wit, for Major Harris is returned ; not a good natured sinner who has been tried and found wanting, for Mr Shee; han is returned ; not plain speaking regardless of consequences, for Mr Swanson is returned ; not silence in the House and straight voting, for Mr Whyte is returned ; not secular education, for Mr Kelly is returned ; not a bold native policy, for Mr Bryce is returned; not free trade proclivities, for Colonel Trimble is returned ; not the imposition of a property tax to equalise finances, for Major Atkinson, is returned ; not a robber of harbor endowments, for Mr Wright is returned ; not a large land owner, for Mr Beetham is returned ; not visionary schemes of public policy, for Mr Macandrew is returned ; not denominational education, for Mr Fulton is returned; not genial, effusive, and long windedness, for Mr Turnbull is returned ; not independent expresson of political opinions, for Mr Weston is returned; not verbosity infinitely extended, for Mr Seddon, is returned ; not a naturalised foreigner and zealous representative, for Mr Shrimski is returned ; not a stonewaller when sound on the local goose, for Mr Levestam is returned ; not even the Premiership of the Colony, with a decent screw, for Mr Hall is returned.