CONSERVATISM.
The desperate effort of Ministerial claqueurs to raise the cry of "Conservatism" at the recent po'lls met with the defeat which, its. discredited 1 sponsors deserved. "Conservatism,'' as- it was .known a couple of decades hack, is as dead as the moa. ■Ntttwitihsrt'aiiiltiTi-g that saich men as Messrs (Buchanan, H/untei' 'and Campbell—men known to possess wealth—have been elected, they will (exercise no more control over the policy of tlhe Reform/ Party than did Messrs Rutherford, Vigor Brown., and Myers—also wealthy men—over the policy of the. Ward Adtaiinistratioii. Mir iMassey went to the country on a broad, democratic policy, a policy of progress combined with reasonable economy iiv ladimilustration, and it is absurd to suppose that he would court disaster by departing from' that policy at the dictation of a few of his wealthy siippo iters.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10504, 18 December 1911, Page 4
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136CONSERVATISM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10504, 18 December 1911, Page 4
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