SPEAKER'S CHALLENGE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1681, 22 February 1913, Page 5

SPEAKER'S CHALLENGE.

•WANTS TO FIGHT Mlt, WADE.!' , Mr. Willis, the Speaker of the Irfjisl.v tiyo Assembly, is still looklhg for n with -Mr. Wado in.tho Upper Iluuier. He said so on February 14. . ' "I. 'havo issued a challenge with' regard to-the Upper Iluiitcr. What does this challenge mean? It-means this: That I am a Liberal; and n6t a Wadtite. I have been maligned and insulted by a nwn who assumes to be the leader of the Opposition. Ed has presumed to insult in? because I am trua to.the traditions of Liberalism, and faithful to thbsS whom I represent. • In order that tlio i people shall dccide whether I am right in beinf!. true .to my principles, or whether Mr. Wudo is right in «eelri!ur to dominate 'nijr actions, I say that lie should couio to tho Upper Htiriter and decide that issue. I must <i?;!uine 'that he has somethiris of the fijhtiuj instinct in him, otherwise lie is nnwfjrthy of being identified with n political phrty. "The Upper Hunter," concluded illr. Willis, "is a Liberal stronghold, s 1 ) hn need not fear to meet .me there ij! his cause is just. ; If lio wjll not meet! jlie, then I shall denounce liini in tho Iprat'j electorates as a political Coward."7-':f?yr-ney Sun." . |