WHAT THEY THINK OF MR HOGG IN THE BUSH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3674, 28 November 1890, Page 2

WHAT THEY THINK OF MR HOGG IN THE BUSH.

[From tub Pamatua Star.] Mr Hogg, who poses as theLiboral candidate, should be very well satisfied with the meeting he had on Saturday night, He is the man selected by tho Liberal party to contest this feat against Mrßeetham, We understand that the question as to whether Mr McUarile or Mr Hogg should retire was referred to Messrs Ballance, Reeves, and Hutchison, Messrs Ballance and Reeves selected Mr Hogg, and Mr Hutchison practically assumed a neutral position, with a leaning towards Mr McCardle, We feel that the choice made is a most unfortunate one. It will tako a man of a different stemp to the present Libera] candidate to oust Mrßeetham, Mr McCardle wo all kuow; he has his faults certainly, hut we should have preferred him to an outsider, and his chances would have been far better, We will now deal with some of Mr Hogg's statements, In referr-ing-to a remark made Mrßeetham )>' said that" great allowanoo "' uol] n be made for a t election times, ty which he meant 1 to be Vnferred that the. great ttlßwance was to ho mado for Mr Beetham, and that it was not necessary to make any allowance for h,im (Mr H.) as he did not mako any statements that wanted considering in that-way, Wo are prepared to mako overy allowance for Mr Hogg or Mr Beetham, but we will only go a certain length, When a candidate .makes such rash assertions as Mr Hogg did in his address, so iar as wo aro OOiicorned'he has broken lug tote, and wants taking in. baud. Ho said that he could flat understand the finances of Sir Harry Atkinson; and vye W very probably so, it is irateboyond his intelligence]but when he says that Sir Harry or; no olie else can, surely be must feel that lie is. talking the greatest twaddle. That a man who aspires to represent an important constituency suqU as this, or in' fact in any constituency in the -colony, should make such a ; !. confession, is deplorable. It is not necessary for us to justify Sir Harry Atkjuson-his own actions fmfl the many;and great services he has rendered to New Zealand sufflciontly do so, and when we have a man • liko of? H, D. Bell state openly that the present Premier liis'twioe saved this country from financial calamity, we are satisfied. Mr Hogg" would do . well to consider what Sir Bobart Stout's opinions aro on Sir Harry Atkinson before he \§ dogmatise 011 h]s. fepjiugv-' Jd>

Hogg must surely have a>very ; pjt>r" opinion.of the electors in this district if he thinkstbat the speech he gave them on' Saturday night will satisfy them, or convince them that it would be wiser to:support him than.- Mr Beetham. We fancy that ho does think that ho is the right man, and that he is going tho right way to work. Let us asstiro him that he will have his eyes open' at tho poll. It is all very well to hear what a man has to say, and to applaud him whenever he makes n point, however he may have twisted faots to do so; but when the ekctor goes into' the. booth to vote he' does not think of these little tricks-he votes for the man who has won his respect, and not for tho man who has talked merely to catch his vote. Mr Hogg thinks it would be advisable to abolish the Agent-General's office, Wo could not have imagined that a man who has tho good of the country at heart would have dreamt of such a thing. It would bo simply madness to do so, as any reasonable man would at once conclude We think this was only one of Mr Hogg's little bids for a round of applau»e;he did not moan it, We must admit that our opinion is that Mr Hogg completely lost himself on Saturday night; he was simply overcome hy'the "exuberance of his own verbosity,' Half an hour afterwards Mr Hogg would have found it difficult to have remembered or justified one-half his remarks. How often a man placed in a position such as Mr Hogg was on Saturday night wanders on and gives himself and his party away all along the line! Had Mr Hogg been alive to the position ho would not have said what he did about the defences of the colony: He does not remember that tLe present defences were instituted during the regime of the Stout-Yogel Ministry. Does he not know there is such a fort as Port " Billance ?'* Poor Mr Ballance, he will say, "save me from ffly Liberul Mends," Doss it not seem absurd to see Mr Hogg set himself up as an authority oh tho defences of the Colony, and hear him give his opinion so freely on a matter of which he is entirely ignorant. Mr Ballonce and the Ministry to which he belonged wasteful to get tho-best-advice attainable before any system of, defence was inaugurated. Colono Scratculey, Sir William Jervois, an'' Captain Boddam are our authoritie 3 in any work that has been undertaken, but these three gentlemen must retire now, for behold a greater has arisen, behoid him, it is-it is—Mr Hogg. What a contrast there is between our two candidates. Mr Beetham gives us an address bristling with faols, and we feel that he is giving us his honest convictions and opinions, Mr Hogg talks to us for hours, says all manner of things which ho knows to bo untrue, does not give utterance to his own opinions, but rather to sentiments • that he thinks «ill please his listeners, and abuses everyone whom ho has ocsasion to reter to, . Mr Hogs; remarked that if hewas not known by his speeches, he was by his writings; and it is by the latter wt know him best, Ho claims to having always had the interest of this district at heart. Well, unfortunately, we are in a position to show how he abused the intelligent electors of Pahiatua for severing themselves from the yoke of the-North County; how Mr W C Smith (who was styled "your friend 1 ') was taken to task for _ the part he played in having "tho Pahiatua County Bill passed. In fact it' has just now dawned upon Mr Hogg that the Pahiatua'County is the fiuest'in the universe, and it is all through his offorts as a journalist that this is so.