SPORTS PROTECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 5 December 1911, Page 5

SPORTS PROTECTION.

ATTITUDE TOWARDS POLITICAL CANDIDATES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. At a meeting of 'the board of control of the Sports Protection League, Sir George Clifford, in reply to a question," explained the position of the league in regard to the general elections.. » He regretted that the league iiad not been in existence a sufficient time for its organisation to be perfected. If it had been it would liavo classified the contests into two classes—(a) those in which both candidates are favorable to the league's policy and in which the league must be absolutely impartial; (b) those in which candidates have distinctly diverse views as to the league's policy, and in which, therefore, the league would exercise the whole influence of its supporters against its opponent. Owing to the short period at its disposal, no such classification Could now be adopted without serious danget of misunderstanding, and the league must therefore, on this occasion, leave it to the discretion of its member individually to exercise the franchise in each constituency as might best tend t« secure its objects. He proposed, therefore, at this juncture, to leave the league's friends un- ■ prompted, except by their general sympathy; hut it followed that action in future, when the league has acquired the necessary sability of organisation, will be one of careful watchfulness and of sturdy opposition, irrespective of partv, to nil those who are not wholeheartedly with the league.