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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10511, 28 December 1911, Page 5

Referring to Mr A. W. Hogg, w&o Vas defeated for the Masterton sea*, in "the recent eleoticns, tihe Oamaru Man «ays: —"Entering the House in 1891, tie made Ms presence Known a>fc once by hailing the maintop. In other words, he made his mark by his mighty voice, and the Parliamentary wits used • to i'hnft him in some such fashion. It v'-.> voiced over on the side of "she Literal creed, and always .it deepest pitch of Mack denunciation of land monopolies. Year in and year out he served the, State in loud fashion. There nover was 'any doubt on which aide he was thinking. A journalist, like so many ufao have achieved Parliamentary honours, he had a straight breezy style, very refreshing in d«iyi when to bo uncompromising wae to be thought a firebrand, provided your -obstinacy was not Conservative. In that case, of course, you were a V-ipal- • conic hero. Ultima-iely, after many years, the roaring voice of the uncompromising one was heard on the government benches There, however, it forgot to learn discipline, and eventually tlhe man wiho owmed it had to return to tlhe seats of private members. Up to that-time he was unassai.able. "But a few months ago, the Liberal sentiment weakened for some reason or other, his friends diminished hi number and tlhe second ballot the other day saw him rejected. The mora, w< itfhat tihe democracy does not always think consistently. Rough he was, but tihe trutih is incontestable that ise , was one of democracy's very best ser- - -wants." -• •• :■.' ';' " ■';■ -..'. ■}• ~.' ~. v .. . J '