A POLITICAL “SMELL.”
“Mr Baldwin observed that the Lloyd George candidates at the last General Election ‘smelt.’ That was. all; and yet that single word—which is not even un-Parliamentary—moves Mr Lloyd George to reproach the utterer of it with coarseness, vulgarity, boorish ness, mud-slinging, a ‘mean and disgraceful attack,’ and ‘a gross outrage on good taste.’. Far more severe things have been said about the Lloyd George candidates before without producing this apoplectie reaction. ' Why should the' word ‘smelt’ have so very different an effect 1 ? After all, those 000 candidates did smell; they smelt of the Personal Fund, to which their appearance in such numbers was mainly due. The extreme touchiness which Mr Lloyd George displays on this subject suggests not so much a concern for the decorum of public life as a conviction of sin. After all, Mr- Baldwin only in effect applied to tbe Personal Fund the immortal lines of Ben Jonson on the rose which his lady returned
“ ‘Since when it grows and smells, I swear. Not of.itself but thee.’ ” —Morning Post (London).
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1930, Page 3
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177A POLITICAL “SMELL.” Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1930, Page 3
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