GENERAL ELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1925, Page 9

GENERAL ELECTION.

" A NASTY" CROSSING. WADING ACROSS THE JORDAN. LOOKING FOR A LIFE LINE. (Bj- Telegraph.—Special to "Stnr."i WANGANUI. this day. | Quite the most interesting figure in i political circles in and about Wanganui jis Mr._ Alfred Lyon. Nationalist candiI date for Rangitikei, who is drawing i crowded houses through the originality !of hid addresses, trenchant criticism, au'd ! aptness for allegory. In one address a | religious theme ran tlirough, and the I electors were counselled "to arise in I their mighty wrath and sweep the pre- | sent mass of political pottage away." j In his address last evening Mr. Lvon j pictured the three political parties wading across the river Jordan to the promised land. Metaphorically he saw his Reform opponent, Mr. Glenn, neck deep in the swirling flood, calling aloud to racing clubs and kindred sports to throw him a rope of salvation; the Prime Minister, adrift on a plank, repenting at seeing the land of promise; and the Labour party, delayed on the bank, fervently anticipating" something in the nature of wholesale drowning. It was a nasty river to cross, said Mr. Lyon, who opined that both Reform and Labour would get some of their members submerged in the crossing.