THE SECOND BALLOT.
WHatever one's politics may be, he cannot" help thinking that the Government has acted in a very generous spirit in allowing the Second Ballot Act to remain on fho Statute Book, until after the Lyttelton by-election has been disposed of. It would have been tho easiest thing in tho world for the Government to have withheld the issuing of the writ until the Act repealing the second ballot had secured the Governor's assent. But it preferred not to do so. Tt would not allow it to be said that the processes of the law had boon strained to gain a party advantage. Whatever may be the result of the by-election, it cannot fail to emphasise the wisdom of repealing the second ballot. The intrigue and scheming that will be practised between the first and second polls will condemn the system created by the "Liberal" party in the eyes of every right-thinking person in tho community. More than that, the holding of a second ballot will afford the Opposition an opportunity of making its* relationship with tho Federation of Labour perfectly clear. A good service will thus be rendered to the people! of the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 December 1913, Page 4
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197THE SECOND BALLOT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 December 1913, Page 4
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