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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 129, 18 February 1918, Page 7

j:| "All Electors Cannot Fight/ h * , \v ."-.■'" but . . : / . , [| . , Every Elector Can Do His Duty "- ■| •. A PARAPHRASED REPLY TO A CERTAIN MANIFESTO ?■ ; ■ ' ." •- •• ■ ' :■.'■■'.. ' T_ ~~~' ~" ' ~" ' : "■—~" ' HOIST WlfH THEIR OWN PETARD TWE ABE electorsof .Tfelli'ngtou North... , • ■ .-. : TWE HAVE darefully'coaaiclered the issue at stake in the present election, afid in consequence are convinced. tHat-j— ... 11l AN ATTEMPT Has been niade to confuse that issue in the hope of foisting upon the electors the docile nominee of a Political Machine, «. ■ tWE GRANT that the National -Government has done its best to further the efforts of New Zealand in the War; hut "THAT BEST'i can be vastly improved by intelligent help and free criticism; ' \ . IT WE REALISE ihat there is no possibility of any change of administrative control, being brought about by the result of the Election in .Wellington North, and [' - WE REFUSE TO HAVE OUR " LEGS PULLED" ' [ IT WE OBJECT to the insidious attempt that is being made to undermine the fundamental right ol the electors to choose their own representative in Parliament, which Right stands as one ' of the foundation principles, of Reform.. ~•-', IT AS LOYAL and Patriotic Electors we wish to prevent the name of New Zealand being besmirched by the infeoduction of the American Political Machine, which makes the welfare of the people subservient to the exigencies oi! Party. „ . IV WE BELIEVE that the compact entered into by the Political Leaders of the two great Parties can only be termed honourable so long as the code of political honour is observed as between the Leaders of a Party and its Members, and we emphatically deny that the right of -'Boss Nomination" was ever part of that National compact. ' THEREFORE I ■'■:.■:■' ■■•'. J The FREE SUPPORTER OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT I IN ITS POLICY OF k ■■■-..-'...