A FLAT CONTRADICTION TO MR SEDDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5078, 16 July 1895, Page 3

A FLAT CONTRADICTION TO MR SEDDON.

[From the Pro/iioi/ionis/.l

I I, Frank W. Isitt, do solemnly I declare that twostatoments, reported iin the Press to have been made by ' the Hon, R. J. Seddon in the Houso, .areabsolutely untrue. | 1. 1 did not say to him that" If a : Royal Commission were appointed ; I would withdraw a charge against i a Police Inspector." It was never proposed that I should lay that information. I had no power to do more than use my individual influonce to induce its withdrawal, Even this I did not promise to do, except by implication. I simply with the most kindly intentions, and without any idea of making the throat imputed to me by Mr Seddon, asked him if the fact that a member of the deputation had said that a prosecution was pending against an Inspector was not an additional reason why the prayer of the deputation for an inquiry into the whole administration of the Police force should be granted, I suggested that the submission of such a case to a Commission would involve much less pain than its submission, in the first instanco, to a CriminaljCourt. 2. I have never, in any place or under any circumstances, said that "My only mission in lifo was to destroy the Government and the Premier in particular," and if Mr Seddon really asserted that 1 did, I can only regard it as a

WILTOL AXD DELIBERATE FALSEHOOD, Thirty-four other members of the deputation, who were present when the reportedconversation took place, will, I am sure, give an unqualified assent to this statement. Believing that Mr Seddon's astutoness is devoted to unworthy ends, and that bis democracy is a sham—knowing that many members of his own political party regard his word as absolutely unworthy of belief, and having had many reasons to endorso this conviction—l have said, editorially and on the platform, that, in the interests of the people, of morality, and of Temperance reform, 1 regard his position as Premier, as a Colonial disgrace and disaster.

My late experience of the cunning with which ho laid hold upon a side issue, raised by one individual to defy a deputation representing a large convention of workers from all parts of the Colony, and my knowledge that he spoke untruthfully at and after the interview, confirms that belief

(Signed.)— Frank W. Isiit,