UNEARTHING SCANDALS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10187, 13 March 1911, Page 4

UNEARTHING SCANDALS.

In the course of a political address at Carterton on Friday night last, Mi- J. T. M. Hornsby devoted fully an hour .to-describing how the leaders of the "Liberal" party in New Zealand had! been maligned and slandered. With questionable taste ho resurrected "Bun Tuck" and other political incidents which are long since dead, and he endeavoured to fix upon the Conservative party, which also is dead, the responsibility for a whole sheaf of slanders and falsehoods, which have as much to do with the electors of to-day as the martyrdom of Cranmer and Larimer. All of this was, of course, leading up to the alleged slandering of Sir Joseph Ward.by the "Black Pamphlet." Mr Hornsby, whilst he did not actually accuse the Opposition party of distributing the "Black Pamphlet," made pointed allusion to the fact that neither the "Conservative" party nor "Conservative" newspapers had denounced the pamphlet until the matter had been mentioned in Parliament. If, by Conservative, Mr Hornsby means "Opposition," then he is stating what is untrue so far as the newspapers are concerned. The Wairarapa Age, long before the .matter cropped'up in Parliament, denounced the pamphlet and 1 its authors. But what did +hc Liberal newspapers and politicians do! ? They maintained a silenct) which was. at once ominous. Evi-. dently they wished the, scurrilous production to be widely circulated', so that they might gain the greater sympathy when the psychological moment arrived. The least Mr says about this wretched pamphlet, the better for himself and ' his party.