The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas. : 1835 - 1880) Friday 31 December 1852 p 886 Article
CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL
OFFICE
The following inhabitants are Candidates
for the Office of Alderman :-
Adye Douglas,
Feancib Evans,
E. H. MoKekzib,
John Fawns,
Thomas Button,
eobeet evans,
John Ceookes,
Cbab. J. Weedon,
Wm. S. Button,
Henry Downing, June,
Ten in number. The electors tomorrow,
Saturday, 1st January, 1853, (New Year's
Dfl.v) will decide the number - seven - who
are to serve.
We entertain an opinion - which is probably the correct one- of the eligibility of the
Candidates, but we do not feel called upon
to express it. The electors are competent
to judge ; they know full well the nature
of the responsibility they incur, and also
the means they place in the hands of
those whom they may elect to benefit their
own interests or the interests of the town ;
seven of the Candidates are unexceptionable : seven may be selected who will
do honor to the discernment and firmness
of the electors; but we fear that be
flagellation and whipcord system is not yet
forgotten, and men, under the touting of the
flagellation of old Notman, will yet prevail.
Henry Dowling, junior, and William Williams alias William Stammers Button who
have lived by the whipcord system, should
be discarded from the list of candidates