POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 125, 20 October 1914, Page 4

POLITICAL.

MR. 0, W. RUSSELL AT HAWEU.

A SCATHING gPEBOH.

A 'MO-POLICY GO\"ER> r AffiNT

(Frcun our fecial Eeportej-.}

llawera, Last Night. Ma*. Ci. W. Rusttisil, member for Avon, arrived in Huv.ern. this evening by the expross. lie wati met on "the Nation try Mossts K. A. Patey, president oi thu ■local 'bratidii oi' trio Li'beral and Luiboi .Federation, and -\tr. F. Stevens, boore--laay of tiiat, body, together wJ.'a Air. Morrison, Opposition. candidate lor Ui* electorate. Air. Kumull, though far from well, readily hdl in with the plans jikicp for a motor drive 'through the onvi.< tJite of llawera and b true a with evident* oi prosperity and feralUy oyetywlkiru abouinlinj;. ' In tfta (.'Vou.ii'j M.-. Russell addressed a large me.ei.ng at liie Opera llouyti and was giv<>u a line reception. He soojj overcame his physical inability (he had been far from weil during the last few daya, and Uho train joui'ncni had pror>u ■yeiy trying) (uid made n slashing »peiti>i in support of the Opposition party, a.n*i iit attack on tsbe uMaasey Adminiutra.tion. Ho doalt briefly with tho war tot not f rosin a. party standpoint, hold injj -tihat the war was, and must bo ket.t abovo party. He enumeratai tit broken promised of the 'Reform partv. and dealt wit-h them in iiiirn. Mr. Russell attacked t'ha failure mi the Government to reduce expenditure and their failure <tb curtail borrowing! lie criticised fully tho proposed Tvfoitn cf the Lcgmlativo Council, and showed that tihe supposed reform was a myth, and that tihe Govcsnunent was entrenching ifsolf -behind the Upper limine for the nert nine j-eaxs or so, while pretending to reform that body. The speaker dealt full;-, with land settlement, to show that there had been fefcs settkiment under the Massoy Oovei nment t'nhn under tlto a/iminisira.tiofi of Iho Liberal Party le.l Iby Sir Joseph v Wajd. Ho justifled the attitude of the Opposition in opposing the Local Railways BiH, on tiho iprimejplo that the railways should be owned fnr the State, at the same time justifying his own in iftvor of (/he Bill, on the ginound -tiuit 3t" the Government was not prepaard -to undertake tho construction of district jailways, and settlorg wore prepared to rate themselves for those railways, thev Mmild "be allowed Iks do so, aa;l, further tsw Government assist tliean financially. ~, Hvlev's raihvav loan proposals of amm, eubmitted to iC by the Oovemmenti, eamio in for conMikr--1 n» e .. at l <nlion ' " failure of tlie t I übiie Service Commiftsionem to reduce j to© ccwrt of CiwArmncnt.

Towards the conclusion of his tddreea Mr. llußsdl asked: 'MTiat-is the pofev of (Jio Iteov Party? What does it wand for? Itrt pointed out tihat Mio policy o-n \\ J hieh i!li<J Massey partr sot into power had been falsified br broken jxronasefl, and when tlie Premier Jwd attempted to carry out portions of hi* pel"mi atto,n 'i )t! ' had proved a failure. The result wi, that the Mas*-y C«jlernmont stood to-day without a policy at all. It wa s up to the Premier to coram down with a policy, and the Liberals would not disclose ono uat-ij >My liaasey cauie down witih his.

THE TIUAHU SMT. Bjr felegrapk,—l'er Press Associ»li«i. Timani, Yesterday. Gn-mg to llus son going to the front, Mr Jumos \\ allace lifts decided not to contest thy elec.ion ns a Reform candidate for Timaru. It is rumored that Hr. F. U. Smith, .\;.! > . I for M'aitaki, will lie approached t» stand. TITK J)tL\ BDIN IWI'ST SEAT, Bunodin, Last Night. After coivsuUMion wiih. Jjiis conumit'tees in tile Chalmers electorate, Mr.- J. i'?. Johnson has accepted the Liberal and Labor nomination lor Duaudm West-.