POLITICAL PILOTS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 March 1914, Page 3

POLITICAL PILOTS.

Deserting the Liberal Party

During the course of his address t it Kohukohu on Thursday even- c ng, Mr Paape, the Reform g League's organiser, referred to the t lumber of candidates who were f formerly adherents of the Li beral )arty and now evinced a desire to sign the Reform platform as cvi- c ience of the popularity of that E Darty. To our mind it is cony mc- k ng evidence of the truth of the i Did adage that rats desert a sink- t ngship. —"Times" [Another knock t it Reed.] ( x. x x Slating the Government. * In the course of his Masterton A iddress Mr. Wilford said he was ] a, Liberal, and was for the masses, s and not for the few. He was c against Massey and the whole c crowd of them, whose heart bled « for the big landowners. If Massey < went . out, the big landowners j would go too. The great and 1 careful principle of the Massey T Government was to slang Ward 5 and keep on slanging him. The Opposition had only the platform in which to answer the charges i made by the Government, as • quite 70 per cent, of the press of ' New Zealand was on the side of ' Reform. The Reform Party had ; a secretary whose business it was ] to issue circulars creating unfav- - ourable impression of the Opposi- ' tion. : XXX ] Just a Little Out. Mr George Witty, the member for Riccarton, has surely made a ! mistake. At Kaipoi recently he told the people that English defence officers were being imported to play polo. Such a statement, of course, is utterly absurd and altogether foolish. Mr. Witty ought to remember that most of the English officers —including General Godley —were imported by the Liberal Administration and that the Defence Act under which they were imported was framed by Sir Joseph Ward, xxx The Heart of a Lion. Mr Albert M. Samuel, who has announced himself as a Reform candidate for Hutt against Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., held the first meeting of his campaign the other night, when he said, inter alia : " I have been given to understand that I will be the accepted Government candidate. People say I have the heart of a lion to tackle it, but I am certain that I will make a good fight. The Re(J F»ds. The " Wairarapa Daily News" writes thus of the disturbances at Mr. Fisher's meeting : — "Of course, the Liberals have nothing to do with the kind of people who organized Friday night's pro.ceedings and rescent as deeply as anyone all unfair and rowdy tactics ; but they are against the Government, and unfortunately for the genuine Liberals at this crisis, the noiv-rpartisan section of the public are bound to class themselves together. It is the luck of the Government that this should be so, and it doubles the task of the Liberal party in their effort to regain control of their own policy, which the Government has adopted and is carrying on. It requires no prophet to see that the Red Feds in their courses are fighting for the Government, and form a bigger obstacle to Liberal success than would be encountered in a straight out fight between the Liberal and Reform parties." x xx Wsipawa Seat. Mr A. E. Jull, it is stated, will contest the Waipawa seat at the next election in the Opposition in- ' terests against Mr G. Hunter, the Government member. The famous ■ Roslyn ' "Writing PacU • obtainable from all Stationers and . Storekeepers, at 6d ? and Is each..- f