Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4286, 28 November 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1892.

Being the extended tiiie of the Wairakata Daily, with which it is IDENTICAL

Thb Member for Masterton is usually considered to be of a convivial disposition ; one who is wont to take the oup of kindness " some wee short hour ayont the twal"; a man who has, on more than one occasion, been put forward by the local Licensed Victuallers as a champion to protect their interests, It was somewhat a surprise to us, and possibly to the member himself, when he was solicit led by Mr Tennyson Smith to take the chair at the late Temperance lecture, We did not quite grasp the object of " The Second Gough" in making such a selection, although by the light of subsequent events it is pretty clear, Preaohing temperance to a decorous orowd of water drinkers is not a very exhilarating pastime, and unless, in un incidental Jtind of way, some personal interest can be excited, a meeting of such a character is apt 10 go off flatly. Mr Tennyson Smith is an old soldier in working up sensations at his meetings. He forsees the necessity of a stimulant, the expediency of providing some kind of sauce for the banquet ho has to serve up, Hence the invitation to the Member for Masterton andtbedilemma in which the latter was plaoed. The Temperance Party possesses votes and Mr Hogg was bound to treat its invitation with resneot, on the other hand lie mußt have felt that 110 would be a fish out of water at such a gathering. However, he took a bold course, faced the difficulty, accepted tho invitation and duly took his seat on the Temperance platform. Then ho tried with Bomo. oleverness to turn the tables on his friend Mr Tennyson Smith by showing that Liberals were the best friends' of tho Temperance cause and muoh superior in this respect to the Conservatives. He also claimed that he, individually, as well as his party, was sympathetic with the cause, but unfortunately his demonstration inthisdireotion seemed to have a peculiar effect upon some of the audience, It was noticed that several persons turned pale, placed their hands over their opigastric regions and hurriedly left the building, Then the old soldier, Mr Tennyson Smith, who had enoouraged tho Member for Masterton to utter words that he had better have left unsaid, served him up on toast and rouudly rated him for abusing his privileges as Chairman by introducing politics to a Temperance platfovai. He, metaphorically speaking, got his opponents head "in chancery" and punished him heavily, The climax of this little play was that the Member for Masterton lost his temper and gaye himself away completely by calling Mr Tennyson Smith names. How Mr Tennyson Smith must have chuckled as he appealed to the ■ meetr iog to support him, and the meeting as d matter of pourse, hissed the member for Masterton and thus pom? pleted bis discomfiture, _ It is said by admiring friends that the great ambition of Mr Tennyson Smith's existence is to get a publican

on his platform and to have a real ?ood time with him, but as yet this kind of fly has been wont to fight shy of tho parlour of the big Temperanoii spider,' but we believe that einco Friday evening the ' second Gough' feula thnt he has not lived altogether in vain, for the member for Masterton walked into his little parlour and allowed himself to be gobbled up. In the Liberal party there are many persons who support the Temperance cause, hut the party aa a whole and the member for Masterton as an integral part of it, have been distinctly hostile to (lie efforts made by Temperance reformers, The Liberal party in killing woman's franchise, stabbed the Temperance party in the back coolly and deliberately. Mr Hogg was undoubtedly one of the assassins and it would have been better for himself either to havtj stayed away from tho meeting altogether or to have attended it in the garb of a penitent.