Franklin's Liberal Candidate.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 249, 20 November 1914, Page 4

Franklin's Liberal Candidate.

[TO THE EDITOR. | , Sir,—Oil reading the report of Mr A. Q. Glass' meeting at Pukekohe I was struck by bis ignorance of practical politics. On being questioned as to whether he was in favour of the Referendum and right of recall he had to admit he did not even know what it was. In the report of his Otahuhu meeting in the " Star " of November ICth I notice Mr Glass tries to make a comparison between the Shipwrights' trouble in Wellington and the Huntly s'rike. For Mr Gla?s' enlightment I would like to point out to him that the Huntly miners struck because the services of some of the miners were dispensed with, while the Wellington Shipwrights struck because the Union S.S. Company would not pay the tram fares and time occupied travelling to the patent slip. While criticising the Minister for Labour now, Mr Glass wants to remember that at the time he speaks of he was a Reformer and lnis only lately been con veiled to Liberal and Labour. Will Mr Glass deny that as an executive officer of a Fanners' Union Branch he helped to oiganis) specials to light the strikers, and that he sent his son as one? If Mr Glass was in sympathy with Labour an>l knew of victimisation why did hr not as an influential citizen make representations to the Minister citing the specitic cases he mentioned instead of helping to baton the men back to work. Mr Glass severely castigates the Government for its failure to suppiess monopolies and talks glibly of tiusts. What I would like Mr Glass to tell me is ; Where is the difference in piinciple between a corner in beef, benzine, or swamp lands 1 Mr Glass tries to make capital from a few paltry transactions in native lands by wellknown and respected families ou the Reform side, and would try to make his hearers believe things were not as they should be. Let Mr Glass take Gazettes for the last three years and be would tind more names belonging to well-known Liberals than he woull Reformers. Of course I am referring to the North Island Land Districts and perhaps Mr Glass only knows his own Waikato distiict. If this is so it is not a fair comparison and he is too parochial. My object in writing this letter is that 1 have uo time for a political turncoat and I do not think Jiat Mr Glass has yet justified his acliou in changing >-ides. I am, etc., LIBERAL.