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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3099, 26 May 1892, Page 2

The Melbourne Argus thus refers to the late General Election: — " The two leading results of the great general election are at once absolutely indisputable and highly satisfactory, and these are—first, that the labour party is utterly and ignominously defeated in the attempt to capture the new Assembly; and the second is that the party opposed to the ' one-man-one-vote ' i proposal comes back with greatly I increased strength, and not only that, but also with much greater fighting power than it had before. The repulse of the labour party is as complete as could reasonably be hoped for. The Trades Hall ran 36 candidates, all told j and. all told the party will not exceed 11 men, and there are at least three of the seats which have been won owing to the lack of organisation—to the almost reprehensible lack of organisation—on the opposite side. This has enabled minorities to snatch victories to which they are not honestly entitled. Where the labour party has won it has just won, and that is all, against large minorities composed of all the men who have anything to lose ; and where it has been defeated it has been, as a rule, by majorities that are immense. The list shows such figures as these : — East Melbourne : National vote, 2527 ;. Labour vote, 824. Eastern suburbs : National vote, 2404; Labour vote, 523. If seats had not been thrown away the great labour party of which so much has been heard would have, scarcely seated half a dozen of its nominees. Of the men who are returned it is to be noted that most of them, though adopted by the Trades Hall have never professed to be Trades Hall men, but are employers of labour, and have not given their subscriptions to the programme of the league. _„„__„_„__„