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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2472, 15 May 1888, Page 2

In* our Saturday's issue we published amongst our late European news a cable message, received through the Press Association, to the effect that Mr Gladstone, in his reply to the address of sympathy from 3,700 Non-conformists ministers, had stated that " he was nol prepared personally to vindicate the operations of the Plan of Campaign." The Auckland papers publish the same tplfgi'.un with the omission of the little word not, thereby making it appear that Mr Gladstone is personally prepared to vindicate the Plan of Campaign, and they therefore comment on the fact that he is lending his powerful aid to the apostles of revolution ami disorder, and bidding to supplant Mr Parnsll from the leadership of the Home Rule Party. But tho same telegram went on to say that Mr Gladstone added that, "in his opinion, the Government were the real authors of the. organisation," a statement quite inconsistent with the first portion of it as rendered by the Herald and Star. If Mr Gladstone, whose hand has often guided the Empire against foes within and without, should now be so lost as to rauge himself sido by side with the avowed enemies of law and order, then he would not give the Government he opposes the credit of creating the Plan of Campaign. But, if on the other hand, whilst sympathising or identifying himself with the Irish agitation, he was cautious and prudent enough to disavow any approval of that illegal instrument of sedition and oppression, then it would be possible for him, in the recklessness which now distinguishes his actions, to make the astounding assertion that Her Majesty's Government are the "real authors of the organisation."