JETTISONING THE PREMIER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10504, 16 December 1911, Page 4

JETTISONING THE PREMIER.

The suggestion has been/ made in certain journal's, which pose as "Lib. erak," that the defeat of the Continuous Ministry is due to a loss of confidence in Sir Joseph Ward, and not. to hny dissatisfaction with the policy which has been placed before the -country in recent years, nor to the administration of tile affairs of State. lit is urged that, if Sir Joseph Ward were to retire and the Hon. J. A. Millar were appointed jifis successor, things would be weM with the great Lib.-Lab. Federation. Jt need h'ardly be said that such a proposition \v,ould only make confusion the worse confounded. Sir Joseph Ward may be personally unpopular in. the country. He may have forfeited all l claim to be regarded as a democrat. But the Hon. J. A. Millar, as a leader, would be impossible. He would not be able to keep a following together for a week. Moreover, he bias himself lest cast© with a Surge section of the community. The fact of the miatter is that the country wants a? rest from the perpetual scavenging for votes wliich is going on, and it demands an entiro change of management, a change whiidh will permit of the pigeon-holes being swept clean and the public services put straight. WJnen this is done, it will be time to talk of "tilting back the wave."