WHY HE FAILED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 4

WHY HE FAILED.

At a social fraction in Wdiiagton on Ho-nda-y night. Sir Joseph Wkks unbosomed hlthssUf to a select sympathetic audience contcnaing his past faikrrc as Lea-dei- of ttb '"' Liberal" Party. It was "nob so imieh in soli-dfifcijee,:' he "but more foi , gduovsl information,- thai he spoke, So fay as caw fee gathered from bis. remarks, everything and ■everyone tmfc Sin iJoSBPii WAftp' was responsible f (J* , Ijfie • decline in tfee'fortiiW's of ft? "Liheval" Pai'ty under bis .leadership. In IMS Mi:. Siiß©o?f sw?!f t the couatoy. Jlje fteti OppositioH >M'as pwietically ajl&ijulatadi. ' Kit Setpbon \v«n & at the Enfepeaa seate,,'tlie Qppsshinn only 15, while Jpiir foil to lnde]pendeitt$ N hi β-dditien, throe ef the fottr Native members supported him, liliis -cuoi> t&aa?, majority, a-6 his leader's d&tth in 1-9:06, fell as a legaey tq Sir Joseph W*Bp. Wag. evs&y ' a Pjiejijifir fiettsi , pi'jßvided fcii- Q-ii. c.n.teo:in.g office- ttefi Btft Jo«EWt W/mpi So had., .jiliis ready .aiaijc" for. him, and tte powerful o-jv g&JSjsation ' tteu-gliMit fcbe coun-try.-available for his .nsa—ia fact, the whole- palHicai -taachijw developed to the) highest point ai working tjftici* eney was j-eady to- his ha-Rtl: Yet, ho tells us in- sftisking to esplain ■May'his failure, that he" was at Ms. Swpos's doatli cehfj-writed. -ivith f, a task fT-otf).,wh.Wi ©any nwft WQjtf-rt shrink.- , Tlie leases folluwad at the filcßfa-ens « : £ 190S, SiR. JosBPS Ward floes not -afcttifeute to his bsvij -skorteGSiings as a ) : e,i.«!er. On the ;coftt : ]'ary, it was "only inataaV* ho ■ states, to lexjicet this Labsiw I to strike out, for itself, and; -also' far memjjftrs who- had suiijasrted Mr. ! Seddoss 4 to turnagainsfc Km success.o.r. ! So wo β-pd in iflBS, instead of -h:oM-» I iag title's? seats weh hy Mb. SfftnaN ha secured only 43, He does not attempt to explain Avhy Ms.. jSlassey shoiiW gain these )bj j recognises ttiat whatcte^ , rapknatisn I he iriigjii mate the piairi fckfc would rensain- {hat nttde-r the leadership of Si* Ward ffaey were tei to the "litej.'aj" Jrai'ty.. Ircn'thfin, j boAVsvei , , Sir .Jos|fh Wabi? bad a,[■large wprkin* ma.tovity with ivlt-ich j. dnrifig the- sweceeding three y<sn\'s jto jhad to convince the flf. his eajiafrity a$ a.leate I and. o't the earncstDess of las pro > fessiCßß a.s a chaiftpieu of .the dft' Sm-oer/iey. Btft agali-i ho failtd.- l,n j Pa.i:lia;metit lia ifeist Mte of Ws fpUonv&rSj and. diafc &f it Issl; the I confidoueo of the jscepifj. At tfte clc-E-tiofts in. rn6ro -thatj ! fira years of hacked hj T pofrei*I Jtil aia-l-eirities had I aceohipifeitad so little that ecrai* IBcnAid itseM. to tlte -Actors Miat life, pledged folfewi-ng ivopycd to 31, [ Fj'cto.Sf in 1905- to ill in ,1911. SStveq I t-Jien, t-htee- iiipi-c seats hfi-S-B hccji [tost—Egnjofttj Gi'dy, and Lytteltoh-. I It. is perhaps, that 6$ (Tosfpii Wsiub should teieo fei «xcwse hinisetf for this i'apid' descent of ilia I "Libsi'al" Prt-rty Ij-em -tlve eyei-whcbpr ingly j)o*"6r-fu} to wiiicU it •Sfiis.raisGf!- by : tfe- late Mk Sepjjqn. It is only to bft,.6j{p6cted, ton, -ttetfc tJ.ie wjnniint of -to "JLiteral" sheiild sue'}: to find esottas far hlia, for they Kavevi-o oao iu theiy raukg I ivho eouid , hope to do hotter. Brit tlteso exeusas paaaot -obsctire tlifi real facts of the position. On &a een-tra-ry, they serve to emphstsise ■ivhat has fen oWi°w s to in ©si »ecsJc ior bog feij-ne past, ancl that is that' witih evsifythi.n.g in- his favour Sift Joseph Warb kiled.- tttterly ag a, pplitical loader. It says a- mjod deal for his ojjrtimisifi that with such a i'i'cov-d he should Still believe bintself e-apaljle of inspiring ' eosfldeiKo aij3ongsb the- aid jußperfets of the "Liberal" f-arty throughmjii the Diuniniaa,