RADICALS ON THE GOVERNMENT.
FORMING A NEW; PARTV. , The, first of a series of., open-air -demonstrations -in the - Hawke's Bay district, was ■ held at Napier , on Saturday evening; These, meetings, are/being organised' by : Messrs. E. I'.' Evans and ; E." 'Stevenson,',wh6 are co-operating;with Mr. : D. M'Larenj .M.l'.V' the Wellington' Labour ■organiser. V. '
Mr/ Evans, who presided, 'moved the foUomng ,'this' meeting 'of • Napier;residents 'regrets .the: Government's • surrender •; tothe'. Opposition's policy,, and' calls upon'/the' democratic members . '.of'{Paidiament; to - stump ,-fiie country with: a. view' to uniting all Labour, ;. Eadical,and . Socialist' organisations into ono ■ great democratic' party ' to',' take . the' place of ; the' deceased ;Liberal ■; and •Lab'our Federation." . Tlio speaker stated that, ..after'. nearly "twenty .years ; of.' socalled- Liberal Government, the idle landholders . had enormously. ' increased their riches, and tie hard-working'land-, •less 'people-'were as .poor as crows; / Therefore it was time to be:'rid oflthepolitical' imposturo of-which Sir Josfeph Ward was the-head. .Beferring to the Railway . De-' partmcnt, he. said ' that if. the train service' between Wellington and Napier, was an example of the.Hon. J. A.'Millar's general administration «* of - tEe...Department, he ought to be removed from hisoffice without delay. '. •• Tho licv. J. K. -Archer'seconded tho resolution. / • : Mr. E. Stevenson, in'supporting the resolution, assailed the,' Government" for abandoning, Liberal principles. Alluding to' the . Hon. J. A. Millar's administration of the Railway Department," he said.that it could not bo worse. Mr, Stevenson, added that the people now looked: to the democratic politicians inside and outside Parliament to hold public meetings .''everywhere in their districts,'andassist, in the: foiinatiohvof a democratic party. The resolution was carried unanimously." It was: afterwards announced that Mr. D. MTjaren,;. M.P., wouldi.address meet•ings in, the Hawke's Bay district next, week: -.'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 6
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277RADICALS ON THE GOVERNMENT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 6
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