KAIAPOI ELECTORATE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17627, 2 December 1922, Page 18

KAIAPOI ELECTORATE.

TO TUB EDITOR OF "THB PRESS.''

gj r At last we have a declaration from the Hon. D. Buddo, the Liberal candidate for the Kaiapoi sent, as to how he would vote on no-confidence motions in the House. Like several other Liberal candidates, he says he will not support a no-confidence motion moved by sinyone except tho Liberal leader. This practically means that he will vote for Massey to keep in power, for there does not eeem a possible chance of tho Lil>erals getting a majority over tho other parties combined. I am very ple&sea this statement has been obtained from the candidate, for now we know where he is, and consequently where the Labour Party ought to be in the Kaiapoi contest. There are a few prominent Labour men advising Labour to vote Buddo instead of Martin, and so swe a splitting cf votes which may lot the Reform candidate in. This was a very questionable thing to do when under the belief that the Hon. Buddo would join w'ith any party in voting to hurl Maeeey out of power, but now it would be a dastardly act to do—it would be disloyalty of tho grossest typo to the Labour cause. It would be on all fours with advising} the Labour electors of Ricoarron to vote Witty instead of McCullough for fear Kyle slipped in, or, worse still, telling the Labour voters of Ohristchurch North to vote Isitt because Andrews mn.y squeeze in. Such a plan is unthinkable. It is up to every Labour unionist, every worker, everyone who has the Labour cause at henrt, to vote solidly for Martin. A wave of feeling seems to have set in in his favour these past few dr>ys, and if the workers but be loynl to their cause he must win on December 7th. —Yours, etc., . WORKER.