A New South Wales M.P.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4460, 21 April 1883, Page 1 (Supplement)

A New South Wales M.P.

That legislative beauty Mr McElhone, a New South Wales politician, is carrying war into the camp of the fourth estate. A few days ago, in the course of one of his oustomary speeches replete with vulgarity, vituperation, and falsehood, this Parliamentary shuffler had the audacity to say " a good feed and a glass of rum would buy any of them," meaning the Press. As a measurer of corn by his own bushel, this self»convicted liar has always been a success. He has since his much to-be regretted entry into public life blackguarded everybody and everything that has crossed his path', and because he doubtless could not get the Press to condone his ill-breeding, or coverlip his appearances in public when he has behaved in a manner worthy of a Billingsgate costermonger; he thus lets his base nature betray itself by the aid ot his slanderous tongue. This slangwhanging tergiversator a short time ago ■aid if he was defeated at Mudgee he would not enter the House again, and a short time after most glaringly acted a lie by taking his'seat. So long as public bodies are disgraced., by the presence of such political abortions and evil-minded vulgarians as this McElhone, so long will honorable men be subject to that abuse and indignity which invariably permeates the atmosphere in which the vile things are.