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MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
Tue three retiring aldermen, Messrs.
Green, Gilmore, and Hart, offer them
selves for re-election. It is rumoured
there are to be fresh candidates. It is
no doubt desirable that gentlemen
familiar with the duties of office should
be permitted to discharge them while
they continue to do so in a satisfactory
manner. Change is in itself an evil.
But it is not therefore proper that
office should be held in perpetuity.
Let not the electors, however, be gulled
by professions and absurd .promises.
Messrs. Tyson and Hart were to do
wonders in the way of reform and re
tronohment; but they soon found that'
the affairs of the municipality were
managed as well as they could. be,
and by men whose only object was. the
public good. At all events, if candi
dates are brought forward let them be
men superior in character and position
to those it is intended to displace; and
above all, let them be men whose cir
cumstances enable them to sacrifice the
time and expense involved. It is not
creditable to the town that a man
should be elected to the office of an
alderman and before his term of office
has expired have to' seek the protec
tion of the Insolvent Court. It is a
sound axiom in politics that he who
has served himself first-who is in easy
circumstances-can most effectually
serve his country.
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