PRESS OPINIONS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5775, 28 February 1912, Page 6

PRESS OPINIONS.

The Now Zealand Times common ts as follows on *vbe new s haso of the Political situation :—"Labour has rtalised now that w-iu'ii (;onscrvatisin motored to the polln io help the to oust the i..n> urals, it did so with a dishonest L^nguc iv a fraudulent duvk, that Toryisni's solicitude f^r the . party of 'usefulness -vvas based «>:i forgery and false pretence, and that ToryIsm's allegutiona against its opponents of nepotism, corruption, tribty, theft, and sectarian bias and affection, wero the joint (oncoctionfl of Ananias and Sapphira, hi?» wii'et'ntler t-hese cii-c-uirustanees w« shall not be surprised if Labour concludes that ths demand of Conhtrvatism that it should carry out its election pledges is just us u.ud no hotter tnan the claim of a brigrand to tfcuj protectioij of a. vvn.yiu.rrsr, iv ho looking- anxiously into t-he barrel oiii rovolver, has made v solemn i>romi.s^ not to tell the- police."

Til,* l^ooiixiiort sums up t^i>> situation in another fashion, ibus :— •■'Members during- the current week will have to face the simple issue. and fax.-o 'it frankly. Kit.her T}ie\- are going to break their elect ijn pledgees to their constituents. and make their names and their cause a l>yevvonl in the politics of the country, or "tiie\.- are groixiir To Keep /aitli with those who sleeved tlu-m. and vote the Ward {^overnmenl out of office a,s the people wMlod. 'I'here Is no room for subtorfug'w i>r ;<|uibblin^ and the sooner the vote is taken tho better pleased the country will be."