MR. HORNSBY IN REPLY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1076, 15 March 1911, Page 4

MR. HORNSBY IN REPLY.

Sir, —You were- good enough to make reference to mo in your issue of Monday, and, as usual, you ,wero quite wrong. It is to bo regretted that your paper should always bo wrong whenever, it discusses the Liberal party or any member thereof. Such sustained inaccuracy leaves room for tho. thought that you designedly misrepresent men, just as it is a fact that, from its inception, your paper has done nothing but vilify all the men who aro opposed to the Conservative sido in politics. In liko manner —and this is by far the grayer fault—you have ceaselessly abused and traduced your own country. I had the temerity to so tell you from my place in tho' House of Representatives, and, of course, you do not love mo. I tell you again—as I did from the public platform in Masterton on Monday—that your papor is unpatriotic as well as abusive! \ou appear to bo incapable of anything savo misrepresentation where your opponents are con-, corned,-and I can but put-this down, to a'lack of moral'sense. If you had published what I said in connection with the "Black" "pamphlet, even you 'could riot, have had the excuso of the-' belief that your article, of Monday's date was warranted. As a matter of fact, I havo proved in my. addresses that for a period of twenty years thero has been a succession of.'blacks-very black, and often upon every public man of"pro'hiineh'co on-tho Liberal side, and I havo further proved that every one of the attacks, ev.ery.onij >:.of;...the, ..publications,.;has; emanated from tho Conservative party. I called as a witness in support the letter written to the press by tho lato Hon. Launeelot Walker, of Canterbury. Do you doubt his testimony? Whon next you attempt to actions or ".my "speeches, 'i'try (for, once) to tell .'the truth.'-It'. niay be 'an impossible : • feat for - you; •' but—try.—l am, etc., ■'■

' J. T. M. HORNSBY. VRuruhau," 14,. 1911;.

[Our Wairarapa' readers may perhaps bo interested in the disclosure which our correspondent makes of tiic methods he is pursuing in his endeavour to secure their ; votes'. AVhat in'othor'people might be regarded as vulgar abuse is, of course, in a person of Mr. Hornsby J s very superior' virtues, merely evidence of his statesmanlike qualities.]