A PARROT-LIKE POLITICIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1744, 24 July 1884, Page 2

A PARROT-LIKE POLITICIAN.

■;; If Mr Joseph Hatch should bo returned for luvercargill-a rather remote contingency,webelieve-a certain ( % ex-hon.-gentleman who is -well-known in these.parts.will have to. look to his laurels, The' Southland' Times'-: says of the former f-" The in crowds to hear Mr Hatch on Friday night, but it was to hear him ' slang' his opponents; and they passed a vote of confidence in him because, we suppose, they were not disappointed. The speech, a very long one, was characteristic from beginning to end, and was very amusing. It was a speech on / everything;'--..with those 'asides' for ; ja which Mr Hatch is famous, and which having really a slight infusion ol Artein us Ward in substance and invariably bring down the house. Fflffi the tinie being, Mr Hatch was on the stage, and was of the stage, and he delivered a stage monologue that it would certainly be very hard to beat. Let not our readers imagine that they have gathered the idea of the performance from our -highly-condensed sketch of it on Saturday morning, We could no more transferer Hatch- to 'paper than we could fix a sunbeam,- and to report all lie said would have needed a double, number > and : Aud the, 1 News' thus writes .'concern- J ing him ; "As the' slang-whanger' Mr * Joseph Hatch has probably few equals, anil no superior out of Billingsgate. His hist night's perlormahco was.-a proof of this. It had been, of course, known previously that he' could, scold like a fishwife; give cheek like a costermonger or bargee. - Bnt : it .had scarcely been supposed, that he could have reached the' depths he did—slinging mud to the right and left -regardless alike of the feelings and reputation of friends .or foes. : some of the things said 'bythis.candfr date for legislative honors, uttered by an ordinary actor he would-be'hissed off the stage. But Joseph seems to be privileged. Some of his worst personalities and his most indelicate inuendos will scarcely bear repetition. He has clearly misunderstood his vocation. He should follow that of a travelling mounte-bank. Perched on a waggon at a conutry fair he would astonish the yokels, sell them-no end of worthless physic, and pretend to cure : {them of every known ill by his miraculous powers, These remarks may appealstrong, But let anyone read tho report which appears elsewhere-and it necessarily cannot give a full impression of the vituperation indulged in, because the verbosity of the speaker necessitated compression—and he; will.-i-admit that they are hot more Man deserved."