POLITICAL ETIQUETTE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 452, 10 March 1909, Page 8

POLITICAL ETIQUETTE.

MR, J. ]]. lIINfi EXPLAINS HIS POSITION.' (BY TELEGBAnr—SI'ECUr, CORRESPONDENT.) Stratford, March 8. Mr. J. B. Hino, the member for Stratford replies in tho local press to Mr. as follows:— °° ° "My attention lias boon called to a lotto: appearing in your Saturday's issue undo: the name of Mr. Joseph M'Cluggage, and ai there appears to ho a certain amount of mis conception with regard to what aetualli took placo in connection with' the visit o tho Hon. A. W. Hogg to this district; I ma; perhaps he allowed to give my views upoi the matter. In the first place, and there i: 110 gainsaying tho fact, Mr. liogg visited tin Stratford district at the request of t!« Stratford and Whangamomona County Conn cils and ol tho Stratford Borough Council Mr. Hogg was good enough, toi,"to wire m< prior to his visit. Unbiased persons wil admit my contention to bo correct. Mi place, as member lor tho district, was al the Minister's side. The gentlemen who, apparently at the request of some of th< Whangamomona settlers who were preparing a banquet for the Kiglit Hon. the Premiei mid Mr. Hogg, tool; upon themselves tlx tasl; of conveying Mr. Hogg to .Whangamo mona, were evidently unaware of ih< courtesy that was due to tho olfice which ] have the honour to hold. They tliereforf oblivious of tho fact, that the main purpo's" of the honourable gentleman's visit was /» inquire into tho requirements of this dstrict," thorght that the interests of t-'eir party would lie lest served by ondeA,<nirmg to force 1110 into tho bacl;^i'ouiv.] : forgetting at. tho same time (he studiedmsult that was being offered to those clecWs who had placed me at tho head of tlu'.P o !' in November last, to say nothing of/he false position in which they wero pjn-'ini; their friends and themselves. PossiH'' they imagined I would accept the i/suit lying down, and I may be pardoned } 1 take this opportunity of inforning tlie.r that such is not my nature. 1 will take ij'.-ult-s from nobody, cither privately as a,.'itizcn, or publicly in my capacity as the/ c P rc ' s, -''"talive of the people of this electorate a "d 1 would furlliei' add that so kng us/ bavo the honour l» hold this high and impfk'nt ollieo so long will I endeavour to siifp'/jiard the right, i ami privileges pertaining (.n'the same. Tin* Liberal party will 'find, they may as well neeept the situation i l ' °"fe ; tint m future, as iu the past, who* ,v<,r a Minister of the Crown honours m.r/ < '' p ctoratc with his presence, he will lyi' 1110 a t his right hand ready and •willing'' o carry out those duties oil behalf of lii? constituents that I have been called on/> tultil.—Yours, ctc., J. 13. iline." •/