MR. HOCKLY AT HUNTERVILLE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 617, 21 September 1909, Page 6

MR. HOCKLY AT HUNTERVILLE.

POLiTlcii.. 'v'-iSIr.- P.?P.'Hookly^6pokoi:ai ? Hnntervilia;tp;' :-:'; Anight befor6''. ; a r ,large;and enthusiastic:audience. i ,'■ /-Mr.- J. Bull*was: in ■'■ the chair.,'.-Ho gave. a/.rp:: v::B'iime ; of-iiti/ platform' /.'speeches' delivered'; else'-; :: ,-, where, : and:*disqussed the ..second ballbt'!,prih; ' ''.' .ciples.on S .'..lines''.already .reported.^:-He, ■;i'. -referred to 'Mr;;/ Smith as being -in -sympathy! ;/';.;•.:at-the ■ general -election:.-with \bothv. parties'; ':,'," According itp, 'thV-KNow:. Zealand/.Times,"-,-,hij. ':;/opponent, 'would 'havei : the -'isorvices; 0f..--three :,'-.:•: Millar,Vand-iT. ! s:Mackennp/:(wh'o;',wcre; tak- ;: " ; ing: tho :platform oh-'the Main Trunk .lino .'of \: : : the : electorate); -and-the •',"'■ at tho Wanganui{endi;'Thiswas a-clcar ihdiiy;'icationthat:,they./were dubious;-'of..'tho;-result, Y-./r: and :a strong'"testimony which they -.uncon; .-'■;•;>.sciously 'pai •'.tlie".:Lea'der. '/- of the Opposition,'',and .the • Opposition, candi- .; .date. Witu'.regard ;to' tie\Hon:.T.. Mackenzie,' ':/.'■.-le.said it.was;perhaps;.fittihg'-and proper Jhat' ■he Bhould';bo- ,phe,':of.i tho,-Ministers, because it - -. -must be;;fresh.yk;;-thb'. 'minds 'of; many that .-' :'he; like the.;-Govbrnmont'candidate, rhad re:';'.centlyundei;g6rie.'a;political;change, and it was -:V -a 'well-known . saying* v.'-that--a. iellow-'-feeling ;'.':, makes us '.worfdroas'ikind;" 1 /Hence tho,'. honour-', , '~ ablo gentleman's ;,sympathy, with '/tho ..Qo'vcrni ment candidate.'. ; 'He suggested-. to his-numerous :. V : supporters', tlult; the i greater; his •: victory- .could ,''•'.be-on-polling;'day,-the' greater tho/honour and . ;... the greater .tho moral-'plfcct would bo \ through-' .;;.;/ out. the .wholß;df:';Now.;?Zealahd: ! . Ho'.pointcd ; ,':■-;i.;out,- that .'with.:'.regard; to..,;.tho ■■ second ,ballot, .'■;■'■■■ the Hon. ,G.'^Bowl(fa;.had ; .'stated'-in' v tho;;H6u'sb /'-.' > ;that .'a' much:'m'6rov.Borions ; -objection-. was tho ,0, -.possibility: .of-political: deals in buying-, and. ;; selling sections of -tho cpmmnnity between tho , >./. polls. That -possibility "madei it, :to : his mind, ;,;,- very objectionable indeed..--: Ho:<addnced as a V': ./.proof of.-;Mr.'.l'owlds's 1 ,objection that-the.GoV- :;.; - ernmeht had already been 'guilty' of, an attempt '/, to bribo:ceTtam r sections -of. the electorate. ,"i''/-. : Concluding,'.ho: said:--"It ;isinot.a; question .of :• .•:',' -tho. Government Changing on ;'this > election. \ 'At ' .-. the present'-time; ; they ; had a • working majority ; - sf. 20, locate S'stifficiMit. to enable'them to carry. .';:- )n * u ". r.' , ~^««i'.b£^tti , o--COTrrfTyi»i)a<c--nothing

; ironld' mhko for good government"so much as a strong and capable Oppositioii. My election to the scat for Eangitikoi would no doubt have ■ a good effect upon the Government in showing them that the country is dissatisfied with its present methods." He folt that Eniigitikei electors would oh Thursday suitably discharge what was in the circumstances a most serious public trust. •... '