THE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4097, 8 September 1884, Page 4

THE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] y IK —Until an hour or two back I was not aware that the Napier Liberal Reform Association had been honored by a portion of jour sub-leaeler in the issue of the 4th instant, but permit me ])leaso to set you right when you are just a little at sea. The Association named above did pass a vote of censure on Mr John Davies Ormond. Here ifc is, "That this Association views with extreme dissatisfaction the fact of Davies Ormond, the member for the Napier electorate, being absent from his Parliamentary duties during the present grave situation, and this Association further re-o-rets Mr Ormond's vote as recorded against the Stout-Vogel Government, inasmuch as that Government were prepared to pass a land tax progressive in character, a measure that Mr Ormond himself advocated on the hustings. And that it bo an instruction to the hon. secretary to forward a copy of this resolution to Mr. Ormond and the other Hawke's Bay members." So far so good (or bad, you say). Now comes the other vote of praise to Mr Smith for " voting personally for what Mr. Ormond paired against." " That a hearty vote of thanks be accorded to Mr. W. G. Smith, M.ILR. for Waipawa, for his kindness in forwardin"- Hansards and other Parliamentary papers to the Association. And that it be an instruction to the secretary to forward a copy of this resolution to Mr. Smith.' Cat bono. We have no right to censure Mr. Smith's action, although we grieve at it; but our own member is different, and you yourself oraoiously acknowledge that wo have that C right. If the Daily Telegraph is really anxious to be posted up in tho_ work of the Napier Liberal Reform Association, I, as secretary, will at all times esteem it a pleasure to impart any information, true and impartial, that may be required, but perhaps you think as I do, that it would be us well to let us severely .alone, and plod OUr own thick-brained course, xinciirecl for and unknown. —I am, ifcc, John P. Ward, Hon. Secretary.

September G, 1884