Politics

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 November 1916, Page 2

Politics

(By WALT MASON.)

Here's the presidential race we have been waiting for and its roorbacks will displace tiresome stories of the war. We are tired of death and blood, and we turn with great relief to the yams of Mr Mudd .who would be the nation's chief. Sleuths are busy laying bare all the things he ever did; whither, daily, grows the liair underneath that statesman's lidi. For he thought his foolish acts were forgotten, long ago; but the sleuths dig up the facts, make of them a public show. Correspondents on his trail strive to show in language tense, that he served a term in jail, having swiped a widow's fence. Affidavits by the ton, written down by trenehent pens, will declare he .got ,bis mon with a. lantern, stealing liens, Anecdotes of Europe's strife will seem flat, absurdly tame, when we take a statesman's life, and dlissect and shred the same. Let the slogan gayly sound let the bewgag hover near; there j be lots of fun around in this presiden- [ tial year.