THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1914. ELECTIONEERING.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 March 1914, Page 2

THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1914. ELECTIONEERING.

BOTH sides of the political field are busy electioneering already, and it is easy to imagine one's self in the thick of the hustings dispute. One thing ail men will be glad to see. It is the repudiation root and branch by the Liberals of the principles doctrine and policy of the Red feds. Most notable is the brace of demonstrations by Mr Russell and the United Labour Party of Wellington —the party that follows M,r Fowlds so far as it follows anybody. Mr Russell has in his latest utterance plainly accused the Reds of revolutionary designs, dishonesty and something very like anarchy, and if this kind of thing pleases Mr Russell no one need object. But the- mystery is how did M.v Russell delay this condemnation so long. The proper time for that kind of thing was during the strike, when he was stonewalling so many things on the floor of the House. The United Party have taken the opportunity of the Wellington Mayoral election for which they are running a candidate, to say what they think of the reds, during the first part of the last July conference.

Before the close of that meetingMr Fowlds, their friend, and their patron departed, taking himself I off, and so did Mr MacLaren, who is the present Mayoral candidate. But the Party as a party stood beside the Reds, and agreed to find some "modus vivendi." Had this not been done, it is probable there would have been no strike at all. Now that the strike has revealed the Reds in their true colours it is well for the Uniteds to declare themselves on a higher and better level. Bnt none of' these things either on the part of Mr Russell or of the United Labour will influence a vote at the { elections except against the side from which they come. No sensible man can ever forgot that the Massev Government by its coolness and firm consistent policy saved the situation restored order turned revolution down to the ground and restored the Dominion to sane safety. Every one else without exception played with fire. That is the verdict of nine tenths of the peopje and nothing j else will matter between, this and the Crack of Doom. The preservation of the fights of the publio

against the insolence of a class bent on anything but constitutional success counts more than any other thing, on the boards at the present moment.