The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907 POLITICAL ACROBATS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3770, 7 September 1907, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907 POLITICAL ACROBATS.

The trend of recent events in Parliament point unmistakeaby to a dissolution at no distant date, A number of politicians, who entered Parliament on the back of the late Premier, have shown disaffection, and have given evidence of disloyalty to the Great Liberal Party which they blubbered so much about during the last general election. The reason of their mutterings is, forsooth that they have been summed up as parochial politicians and time-servers by the Premier. These sycophants would not dared to have trifled with the late Premier as they are doing with Sir Joseph Ward. Under the old regime they were puppets who moved and spoke only at the nod of their patron. Since the latter’s

demise they have been putting on aiis. They threw over their paity the other night and voted with the Opposition on a certain tariff proposal to place mining machinery on the free list, despite the fact that the miner gets just as much in tariff concessions as any other individual in this part of the British Empire. The point, however, is that these wobblers previously voted in Committee of Ways and Means with the Government on the question and a week later, without warning, voted against their leader and party — the party to whom they owe their political life. The following are the names of the contortionists, Messrs J.T. M. Hornsby, Dillon, Field, Hall, Jennings and Ross. By their actions they have lost all claim to the party, and whose constituents returned them pledged to support that party. However, it is well for Sir Joseph Ward to know what is in store for him, and to draw from the hustings men of higher moral standing to replace these acrol ats.