POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 April 1907, Page 2

POLITICS.

To the Editor. Sir,—On reading your leading article this morning (litith inst.) I couldn't help thinking how extremely old-fasiiioneil and out of date you arc in this year of grace. 11107. Vou actually insist that a candidate should be "hone-l"; worse than that, you want him to lw "intelligent." Whirl, are we coming to in these days of Party government tint these virtues must lie asked of a candid-, ate for Parliament? You want to know such a lot of other equally preposteroas things that one wonders if you are a modern Rip Van Winkle who went to sleep politically In the year one, before pur groat "Liberal'' Par.y took ".God's own country" by the ear. until we are come to this pa.-* that no one outside Philadelphia knows jtlie interpretation of the laws thai our Liberal plenipotentiaries paid themselves t.IOO a year to pass. It is funnier than our 'annual, surplus'' to rend how many of our esteemed citizens are ar.xinus to come to f,he help of the plain Tom Jones (wno works for wages) and his higho,r-phve»d brother Adolplms De t ere (who receives n salary). We shall be told the usual thing, "Genilcmen, thecouuitry is going to the dogs, hut I (slapping his chest) will lift it and you out of the mire." Tory, Liberal, Independent and carpetbagger all tell us the same old lies,and we go on shouting "Hooray!'' till we are black ill the face. When Diogenes went searching for his honest man it must not have been during we throes of an election campaign, and if he lived in our time and listened to all we have to imbibe during the next week or two he would want a thousand candle-power electric lamp, and then he would die in despair. But as for wanting a candidate to be honest and intelligent, really, my dear Sir, the idea is so funny that I will have to stop to giggle!—l am. etc., m®?. ;!' r'" • thos. dodd. I