CAMPAIGN NOTES
POINTS FROM THE SPEECHES
The subordination of all domestic questions to that of the supreme necessity for winning the war has always been insisted upon by Mr. Brandon. "But in this election," said Mr. Brandon last night, "I am sorry to say that a domestic question has been allowed to obtrude. It is very evident from the tactics displayed by some people that the Prohibitionists are at work and the liquor party are at work. I have been accused of being the nominee of the liquor party. Well, I. have the assurance that no people were more surprised than the liquor party when my candidature was announced. . . .
I am not a teetotaller, and I freely con. fess that J would rather drink a pint •of shandygafF than a pint of raspberry vinegar any day, but I do say that such a question should not have heen raised. [ have said in my addresses that legislation should be allowed to remain as it is during the war. After the war there will he a general election, and then the fight can take place once more on domestic questions." In a reference to the correspondence between himself and Mr. Hutcheson, he said that no understood Mr. Hutoheson was "a leading light in the Temperance Party, the Prohibitionist Party, the Intolerant Party."' "I don't know, whether you are tired of the phrase 'Win the war,' " said Mr. Brandon to his AVndestown audience last night. "It has been rather maltreated as an election cry, hut if you can bring yourselves to realise that the defence of New Zealand is now taking place in Belgium and in France you will realise the necessity of our doing all we can to win the war. . . . We can win the war by doing all we can to help the Government. For the winning of the war we must have a Government supported by all shades of opinion, and that Government I helieve we have in the present National Government." Later the candidate said: "The disruption of the National Government would he one of the worst calamities that could happen to this Dominion." j
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 8
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356CAMPAIGN NOTES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 8
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