POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 11 July 1914, Page 10

POLITICAL.

~■... . •! PATKAIS MEMBER. ; The member for Paten is t'he one ■Mass'cy supplier in Taranaki for ■v.lios'e defeat much would be given by 'llis opponents. He possesses in a generous tneasure the. gentle art of ma-k----uiig Enemies and embittering an opposi--tioii tluit under normal conditions might mean nothing more than a sportliiSt enthusiasm to put him out of tiie 'tiring line! But, like mo it men of that el-.ifs, he i 3 ;l ntubbom tighter and is seen to most advantage when die lias his' back to the wall or thereabouts. Llii funeral is always triennti'lly predicted as a dead tort., but he has hitherto been able to fool the prophets and one might safely give long odds that he is going' lo do so again. " Tile trouble wilili the l'atea as indeed, with Liberals generally in Taranaki is that they don't know ipiile, what they want. Or perhaps it might be said' that they want a brand of Liberalism that i'« firstcousin or half-brother to the. Conservative Masseyism of eight or ten years ago. It is certainly not as- frank or free or as robust, and not half so sure of its ground as the much improved and advanced -Masseyism of to-day.— \V;iimate Witness.