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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1614, 29 November 1905, Page 1

Christchurch Truth is not proud of B prohibitionist Taylor. It calls him the o leader of the Talking party, and. contin- t ues We 'cannot but admire Mr T. E. 1 Taylor’s remarkable nerve, t'-'o one * unfamiliar-.with the events of the past £ session who had read Mr Taylor’s speech this morning would imagine for a moment j that he is the discredited leader of a discredited coterie of political ipalcontents who have wasted the money of the country and the time of parliament in a series of hysterical and unproven charges | against the Government of the day. To ; read the impassioned speech of Mr i Taylor, no one would suppose that the party of eight or nine piqued and disappointed .politicians, each actuated by a personal grudge against the Premier, who seceded and chose him as one of a triumvirate of leaders, has dwindled to three ; that even the New Liberals could not tolerate him, and that only the youthful'Fisher and Bedford are left beside him. To do him justice, Mr Taylor is the cleverest advertiser in this colony. He has Used many expedients to keep himself before the public eye in his time, and he has sought popularity by many devices since the resentful electors of this city turned tiini out of Parliament some years ago for his unpatriotic Sentii ments at a tinle when it was necessary' 1 that the Empire should present a united ) front to the world. His latest means has . been a theatrical attack upon an Adi ministration which is certainly open to - attack, but such an attack as reasonable men can only condemn. -Mr Taylor I relies, of course, upon the unreasoning t fancifulness 6f an unthinking section of y the public. He believes that if he makes a himself sufficiently notorious he will get I, support, whether he is any use in Parlia« " went or pot,” '