THE TITLED MINISTRY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10494, 4 December 1911, Page 4

THE TITLED MINISTRY.

tn the course of an article ois th© prospectsi of the downfall of the Continuous Titled Ministry, # the Bruce Herald remarks:— "It is, of course, difflcuillt for the present generatkwi to believe that a Prime Sfluriister can sustain! defeat at the polk, for. as a matter of fact, it «* -"* years since such-a politioal disaster .overcame a Prime Minister. In iisß/' ihe them political David, who slew the them politioal Golfllatk, 'was Mr James Allen, who defeated Sir Robert Stout, the Premier in !ih» is politioal history about to repeat itself ? Is* Mr Hamil'tpn, an> untried politician, ( about to defeat the veteran Prime 1 Minister,, Sir J. G. Ward? If so the coincidence will: he more than singular; it will he pluraK Sir Robert Stout, in accepted a uaHJie, and incurred great political! unpopularity thereby: at the next election he was defeated at the polls by a youlng man. unttrfed in pubfic life. Sir J. G. Ward' has accepted the tit!© of baronet, tud iMs, if is alleged, has created a strong feeling of antagonism; m ,Awanua, and he lie opposed' hv am unexperienced politician. Will' th© cause and effect be the same in 1911 as it was in 1887 ? It w diffioult to say, forth© ballot box isi your .onlv true political prophet, but it is obvious that the stars in. thear courses' ar© not working very favourably tor tlie member for Awarua.