PREFERS THE REFORM CANDIDATE.

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

PREFERS THE REFORM CANDIDATE.

... A GANDID STATEMENT. , Everywhere one goes one finds large numbers of electors who would have voted for Mr. Meldrura, .Mr. Georgefcti, or Mr. Hornblow had any. of them got inttf'"the second ballot, but who now infinitely prefer Mr. Hockly to Mr. Smith. Ono of theso is Mr. J.; Johnson, who acted as chairman at , Maugaweka' for the late Mr. Remington, and subsequently for. Mr.\ Meldrum.. -Mrj Johnson, it should .bp.explained, has been • one of the most '*• pronounced 7snp : porters of the Ministerial party in Rangitikci for , the . past eighteen years. . He states that his party was badly in need of a candidate in whom it could place : every confidence-r-one who could assist the Government. to enact legislation worthy of the : country and its people, reeling that that candidate was hot now in the field, he preferred to vote for -the Opposi- ' tion candidate. In Mr. Hockly, whom he had known for tho last twenty years, - the •electors had a upright, honest man, •a practical farmer, a resident having the true interests of., his'district; and country at-heart. He had no. confidence in Mr. Smith (whom he had known just as long) as a . representative of the party * which, ho had assisted so consistently. • ;