The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1914. THE ELECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 291, 7 December 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1914. THE ELECTIONS.

The General Election of 1914 is upon us, and on Thursday next, December 10th, the electors will be called upon to make decision between the administration of the country's affairs under the Party led by the Hon. W. F. Massey and now in the ascendancy, and that led by Sir Joseph Ward. There is little real interest in the election amongst the people themselves, though, of course, politicians and candidates for place may have the temerity to deny this very apparent fact. With the all-absorbing interests of the great war for national life and our very existence, the little issues of local Party politics appear insignificant and paltry, particularly when the so-called policy of each Party is so very 'much like that of the other Party that it is beyond most people to distinguish the difference. Thus the contest becomes, in many electorates, a purely personal one, the more apathetic electors choosing to cast their votes in favor of the candidate whom they may regard most highly. Strong partisans naturally follow the ticket, and we have the spectacle, in at least some electorates, of the honest voter's queer position. He is faced with the option of supporting a weakling who is a blind follower chosen of the Party he delights in, or of voting for a candidate intellectually strong and highly respected but opposed to his side. After all there is a great deal in the personal qualification to do the business of the country honestly, impartially, and without vain glory. Of course, as usual, neither side is giving any credit to the other for any good thing, and both sides are busily discrediting every act of their opponents. If Sir Joseph Ward was maligned before last election, the Hon. W. F. .Massey is being just as wrongfully slandered at this time. There is a great and growing disgust ol Party Government as we are now experiencing it. but the trouble is to produce some sound workable sysJ tem to supersede it. |