POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 286, 6 May 1914, Page 3

POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS

ESSENCE OF ISITT. .

The following are some shafts from Mt. L. M. Isitt's well-equipped bow-. Mr. Massey reminds me of nothing so much as of a new fat oherub, such as one sees outside new halls, with five camucopias containing damaged pluins and doubtful wheat. ... He stalks the country ae a sort of political Santa Glaus, doling out roads and bridges. A party politician or a party supporter reminds me of a horse in blinkers.

About the repeal of the Second Ballot Act. —If I promise you 25s for JE3; how would you like me to take your £1 and fromise you the 25s when it was conven-

Mr. Massey's talk of the people and the Dominion being hehind him is the biggest piece ,«f platform bluff I ev«r heard. ,

If I were backing.a party like the Reform Party, I'd go .out with a handkerokief round my head, and in sackcloth sad .ashee.

1 Haye I got that letter from Mr. James to tie 'Reform Party's supporters? Well, Pve read it to my meetings tioll I'm tired. You ought to ihave seen Mr. Massey's face when 1 read it in the House!

You might as well buy one million five Itundrod tin teapots as spend £ 1,500,000 on a. l"ocal navy." The local navy iB th» craziest notion that ever entered the v.ead of «vcn a Tory Govemmeit. If you are mixed up wi J ;h the Tory crowd, and hav» any crunial development at all—get out! "Square deal" Massey—a political PeoksnifF.

Th« Reformer* rsaid, "wait till we get at th«s« pigeon holes." They've got there, and haven't even a cuckoo's egg. It is the moat foolish end possible to an empty boast. Mr. Massey, Mr. Allen, and>Sir Walter Buchanan are all there. They've only got on new hat«. They point to fife hat bands and say, "Wo are Reformers!" There are too many breweries on both sides of the House. If I could get some of your muddled heads clear, you wouldn't vote lor Massey.

The Hon. H. D. Bell is the reiil leader of the Government—Mr. Massey is only a little lad, <wlom Mr. Bell leads by the fiand.

Mr. has said that lie is "a brake on the wheels tof progress." 'Well, a 'brake is aa «ld shoe, with no hael aid ■o upper.