THE REMINGTON-HUTCHISON CHALLENGE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 9 December 1908, Page 5

THE REMINGTON-HUTCHISON CHALLENGE.

(To the Editor.) ■ .... Sir, —As an elector of the Raiigitikei ?.m! f.uppnri-pii..up to the recent election campaign of Mr Remington I would wish to place my views before your readers, and T am confident they are the views of the great majority.of my fellow electors /m the above rather-.dis-agreeable question. So far as the majority of the electors of this district arc concerned, they require and demand a contest, with the main intention of allowing Mr Kerning ton to clear Ins political character. I hold no brief for either of these gentlemen, but I am perfectly satisfied that our present member, after this most dishonourable disclosure, which, unfortunately, we, as tho electors, heard of too late, and some in the back blocks did not hear of till after the election—-is not (unless ho can effectively refute the allegations) tho class of man the great majority ef honourable men and women of this electorate wish to represent them for the next three years in Wellington. Therefore, I suggest,- and as an elector dem.in.-l, that Mr Remington resign his sept-, md rontest it against a man of unbl niishnd honour and probity, who has proved in every sense— as pioneer r-ettler battling against adverso ciroums'an^s in the linck blocks —a practical farmer, a.man who understands tho rrquirrr.-i.ontv <{ the electorate : wh? islhor ngMy f^nnd on the freehold qtiostion iti ques'.iin, by-the wy. wl-i^h intcrestr, man. woman, and child, not alone in Pangitikei. but right through llio count-y); a man well vcrs-

Ed in local and county politics; who has? tilled wii^h honour the position for some, years of Chairman of tho Wangaehu. Road Board, Clerk and Engineer, to the same body, a member of the Wan■ganni County Council, and at-present: chairman of above mentioned Road Board. I refer to Mr 'A. C. Manning-, ton, a settler in the Maungamahu district. I might say, that prior,. and upv to. .this scandalous "Reinington-McGre-: gor exposure,"; Mr- Manning ton was a staunch supporter of Mr Remington's,, and. filled the position of chairman at-, his (Mr Remington's) Maungamahu. meeting tw-o nights before the election;.'. but in tho interests of political puritytho above-mentioned gentleman is" nowprepared to. contest •■the election if the sitting member has that sense of honour which most men so much admire,, and which, should impel him to resign and give the electors of Rangitikei that, opportunity th? great majority of themi demand and require.—l am, etc., RANGITIKEI.

P.S—As a suggestion to my fellow-electoi-a I would advise that if MrRemington will not resign his scat, and" attempt to clear his hVmour, indignation meetings bo held right through the electorate} with a view to forcing: the .Liberal Ministry to bring pressure to bear on Mr Remington to give Rangitikoi the -'chance of -,again lifting thebanrrr of political purity above ourfair and.