Held For Ransom

NZ Truth, Issue 1186, 23 August 1928, Page 6

Held For Ransom

IF the United Party arrive home with the bacon after the poll.. . . (parenthetically it may be said that this supposition is perhaps hardly fair to people suffering . with cracked lips) . . - . and if E. A. Ransom again woos and wins at Pahiatua, he will scarcely be denied a plum from the Cabinet pie. E.A.R. has proved a hard-hitting, trenchant critic m the attenuated ranks of the old Liberal-Nationalist party for which he has quarried so faithfully. One Minister at least pays him the homage of rapt and undivided attention. And Ransom has stood pat for his principles, too. There, have been cases of politicians who have fervently espoused an opposition cause m the belief that its star .was m the ascendant; find when this hope has proved forlorn they, with an air of bland and cherub-like innocence, have, switched over to the dominant party. It is refreshing to record that there are none of these, tricks about Ransom. Long before he annexed a seat on the Speaker's left, Dannevirke had rated him 4)igh as a public-spirited citizen, and he wore the mayoral robes with a dignity that found its counterpart m his efficient municipal methods. It was Ransom's personality and record that/ won him the Pahiatua seat rather than his platform.