"LIBERAL" TACTICS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1294, 24 November 1911, Page 8

"LIBERAL" TACTICS.

THE STRATFORD SEAT. The enemies of Mr. Hiuo are resorting to extreme measures in their despair over the growing certainty of his re-election. The "Taranaki Daily News," in reporting hjs Whangamomoua meeting, said Mr. Hine had had difficulty in finding a chairman, that a resolution of confidence in the Government was carried, and that ho had favoured the introduction of machinery. so that the amount of labour would be reduced. The "Stratford Post" reported Mr. Hiiio correctly. In his speech at Tariki on Monday, Mr. Hine rqferred to tho. matter,, and described the report in the "Daily News" as "altogether villainous." Tho "Stratford l'ost," whicl- is not favourable to the Reform Party, -had a joaderetto ou tho subject, in which is said: —" Reports of meetings are generally accepted as records of the sayings afld doings of the persons taking part in them, but latterly, in too mauy instances, they appeal 1 to be mere stories of what did not happen. The fault appears to be chiefly with tho over-anxious political correspondent, who, wishful to put 011 a bravo face, turns defeat into victory, and loudly heats the drum. But it does not pay, and it does not please— people like to be served with something approaching the truth, even if it does not smack so much of tho 'yellow' as the puro invention might. The Hon. T. Mackenzie and Mr. J. B. Hine havo both had to call attention to this sort of thing of late, showing that tho erriiig ones are notconfined to any one side. Last night, at Tariki, Mr. Hine termed ono correspondent's work 'villainous'—and it certainly appears to deserve it."