ELECTION EGGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8000, 11 December 1905, Page 3

ELECTION EGGS.

WAFTED FKOM WEDNESDAY

About this time the younger mem-Ina-s of the crowd made things lively [with their rough play. A lady in a whiu; nat |!it| out' rud chared a .*-l'a«- for hers, If. Small bottl s raged and whirled like ripples m a pool. Uaru hvads . became, frequent. One or two arrests .were made. For an hour a little circular well had remained in the crowd—as neatly circular as ii" drilled byfiuachrnery. It was lVstikncu and I'erfume—an eloquent egg.—E.i-ning Post.

The huge crowd which witnessed tht; results of the elections Wing displayed on the Evening' .Post board was repeatedly disturbed 'by a nuniIwr of young men "losing thvir heads, ' and pushing aliout the strcvt in--a fooMrall scrum formation. Sub-Inspector O'Duiiuvan ami a constable placed themsclvi-s in a position to check the disturbance, but eventually had to submit to tin- fate of many a) civilian. Jn one 'huge scrum the "scrummers*' carried "a crowd as far as the kerjbstune of tho footpath, where several people tripped, and <'o\vn wen' young and old like ni.ier.v. SuY - Inspe;tor o'Donovan u, auicro t them.

The str lg r a- ■■- ' :g .r i. Sydney by (,V;;. •;(' ;,'s) steamci must hr e w< 'j: '. if r days had changedi. thii i col''. .'. 'and Sunday taken the place of Wednesday. And jet it was election day ! Ten"years ago general election day was one of tho "freshest", days of the year. Candidates ami wild-eyed committeemen worked like fury all day then, and tcok no rest and) very little breath until J the doors of the booths were tanged in order that the perspiring) ejerks might crmmencc ths "count." Cuba enveloped fin huge posters tore about, ami hoardings a (la re with instructions told the impressionable "how ;to vote." The' hotels were wider open than on any other day,-in the year, and the most, penurious seemed, by somo mysterious process, to obtain his fill of whatever he fancied. The elector was a more important person in l those days than he is to-day.—X.Z. Times.

"I heard one man trying to hoot ; I only want to say that the biggest bully in the crowd would not dare to hoot me at arm's length."—Mr Puthie, in his thanks to jthe electors.

The Premier concluded his speech after the election: "I shall go home to bed. and I.shall sleep the sleep of the just, ami I stjll claim that I wear the white flower' of a blameless life." (Cheers.)

| 'Another extract from Mr Seddon's ; remarks : I .was down at Lawrence ;thc other night. My good wife was with me. (Appkiii.se and throe cheers for Mrs SedVon.) Ar-d, ladies and gentlemen, after I hail made some remarks at one or» two functions, there was a kind) old lady iwho had been seeking lor an interview, jyou .latow wh&y I shu sa'Jrt ■? "Mr Scddon. y< u're a dear old darljing." (Applause and laughter.) But I ray cup of joy was not completed! unjtil this afternoon, bcouse I happenjed to visit a suourb of Welli'igton. i(Vcioes: "Xontown," "Brooklyn.") I I'm not goilg to give my friends away. (Hear, hear.) Ami another dear ohl lady who had been longing for an introduction, shook hands. and after wc tad shaken hands she said, 'Well, now I will di-q happy." (Laughter and applause.)

I Undoubtedly the judicious application of the Public Works Fund has I hcen the chirEcaus-.i of the Opposition 'debacle in the country districts ; and | jverywhere the voucher business and the want of organisation have been contributing factors. —< Wellington Tost.

To-day tfi" Opposition does not exst. A few stragglers from the field of battle survive—thirteen all told, including thv Imie|>endcrta and the remnants of tlv New IJb rals ; t-ut the great irmy <A Conservatives has been sunk Vneath an irifsistilile wave of i'.■ ) vi.n.i The colony as -it.< le l-s cxprv si-d itsapproval :>! lie isi-et- Minis! ry with an <" ph.-sis sa •" ••< of the incredrb '. "r -n> .'v rf the people <■( 3f< '.'l .'. ,id £•■■ so thoroughly in act <rd v h ijbcral principles that even sterling and sturdy men like t';r William Russell, Mr Herdman, Mr Moss, and Mr John Puthie have ticen cyept away im Ih.> general rout. Their great merits have not. availed ithem- fcr they were in the ranks ->f a doomert and beaten annY. Ami while this stupendous defeat has l>efallen the Op.position proper, the New Liberals, of whose future so much- was expected, have gone hopelessly under in the general debacle. "Of that tiny party |of- feur half have lost their seats ; treir k« l . r, one* cf the finest orators rnd cr of the irost earnest men in the colony, leceiving in the melee and unexpected at'd staggering Mow fron a ncvice in political warfare. The people of New JOealand arc evidently as impatient of the -Independents as of the Opposition.—N.Z. Times.

The. triumph of Tammany is complete, and Hs Colussus now bestrides. our narrow w< rid with a wider stretch and a tinner grip than ever. rays the *VelHngton Port. We lament the li ss of ir ny ui the ablest cf cur public iron who haw fallen in the si ami the Wow fnftict?d upon the colony by the consolidrtion of the autocratic monopoly under which it has suffered so Tong . but even in the hour ot disaster it lis to withhold a tribute of admiration to Mr Scddon for the I' astonishing thoroughness of his victory. The ranks of the regular Opposition ha\e gone dwn before bim, ;as comp l t-Iy as the footballers of th; Old Connt-y befc-e the Xcw Zealand team, and e\;-n the winß-inon—-the Independents and New Liberals—of whom wo had formed high hopes. are in the same "ml burial Went." If success were the test of merit, Mr Sodden would indeed be entitled to our unstinted admiration; but hu;man nature is so constituted Ihatwo j are often ci nstniiied to admire even I where we cc m' inn. r w in 'tollers of a 'law-abiding .or mi ity haw- room jfor unqualified ap| rival of the most successful burglar, yet few tin fail to Ireccgnise that in his Calrin,, as in all ] others then-) may be qualities exhibited which are in thenwelves entilled to unstinted eulogy. The operator or the Tammany machine is a inilliimfohl greater, dang r t" the community than tbe most enterprising ef burglars, but lot rot our detestation of the ins-trtiilion blind us into the belief that any fool can work it if he is sufficiently unscrupulous.