THE Hustings.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 16

THE Hustings.

A BIG THREE “Uniteds, Reuniteds, Benighteds.”— Mr. J. A. Lee’s description of the history of the United Party, at the Hamilton Town Hall on Saturday evening. SEE HOW THEY RUN. Reformers are now bolting like startled hares from a stream of hostile criticism. —Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., at Hamilton on Saturday. 9 * 9 SUPER AND SOUP “In 1925 ‘Our Gordon’ was hailed as a super-statesman. To-night we know him to be a soup-kitchen statesman,” said Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., at Hamilton, in the course of an attack upon both the Reform and United Parties. • * 9 9 GREATEST ON EARTH “By a process of self-hypnotism they have induced themselves to believe that —like Barnum and Bailey’s circus—they are the greatest show on earth.” —Mr. J. A. Lee on the United Party at the Hamilton Town Hall on' Saturday night. * PESSIMISTIC OR PROPHETIC? The United Party’s candidate for W'aikato, Mr. F. Lye, is not very confident. At Waitoa oh Friday he said there was no likelihood of the United Party occupying the Treasury benches after the election, and it would be some time before the party’s platform could be adopted. * * * HOT TIMES PREDICTED* “Mr. Coates lias his coat off ready for the fray, according to the latest Reform advertisement,” said Mr. F. W. Schramm, Labour candidate for the Hamilton seat, at Hamilton on Saturday. “Well, on November 14. he’ll have his shirt off, too. In fact,” he added, “he’ll find it so hot that he w.ill have to retire to the shades of Opposition.” 9 9 9 “HOTCH-POTCH OF REJECTS” “Why are you opposed to Esperanto?” was the question propounded to Mr. O. E. Burton, M.A., Christian Socialist candidate for Eden. “Because it is an artificial creation that will never be able to compete for world-wide use with live and literary languages, such as English and French,” was the reply. “Esperanto is a hotch-potch of rejects from everywhere—like the United Party.” •DRAGGED,” IS RIGHT “The Prime Ministei should be complimented on the fact that he and his Government, in spite of adverse economic conditions, had pushed the country along,” said Major Lambden in seconding a vote of confidence in the member for Kaipara at Helensville last Friday night. “Dragged it along, you mean,” came an interjection from the back of the hall. “Yes, perhaps ‘dragged* Is right,” replied the major. “He certainly had to contend with the make-weight of Opposition ‘intellectuals’ (or those whom ho called 'intellectuals’ in his recent Masterton speech), ad well as the 'boom-an(J*bu«ter«T’