SEDDON’S MANTLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1925, Page 4

SEDDON’S MANTLE.

■Timnr if it wfbe not iiiMonous." A I'OK I.AX I). On. 10. Tlic <l;iim now being made I>y the I.;i 1- inr Header ihal on 1 1 is shoulders has dill.oi the mantle el Mr Sodili.n "a.-, ridiculed by Air Tallies Stewart, HeI’orin eandidare lor Auckland Fast, last ni.elii, Mr Stewart said lie had the Greatest adniirai iou for the lute Kiihanl Seddiiii. ami a sympathetic regard for l.ahour in the true sense ot the word. Hut v. lieu member-- el' Mr S-aldon's Party hooted and hissed during the \isit of the Duke of York, our present !x ill 1 hat cut lie- paiuii-r between I al.onr, as ho knew ic, and hiniseli. Mo had known Mr Sedd.m |>ei -anally, having ioo,ii v.-t i.'lar\- ot one o! In.hraneiies of the labeval-Lnlnu'r Party, and lie regarded him a ' a st l.lesma u down to pm.-perily with honour. lie could illumine Mr Seddon listen-

ing to the words of splendid neutrality uttered hv .Mr Holland during the war neriod. and eoohl see him bow I'm head in shame on hcnriug the l.ahour Header aver tbai the mantle ot Seddon had fallen on his shoulders: H it were not so litimorons. Ihe idea would be tragic, ft was an insult to Seddon that a man omhosiuo the sentiments of Bolsheviks

and .■socialists should make such a state, lueid . There was no time when the people of this country were called upon more seriously to iudtr“ let ween a strom;. sound, stable Administration and Bolshevism in its worst form.

"Mad Air Holland or any of his friends boon true lollowers ot t'o.t or.-at statesman, would not the people of Xew Zealand, who loved Hit-hard Seddon. have elected Mr Holland to carry on r" asked file candidate. "They would not do it. They could not do it. They did not do it. And thev will not do it." fl/md applause.)