WHY THE COALITION CHALLENGES

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 11 September 1933, Page 12

WHY THE COALITION CHALLENGES

POLITICS AND SENTIMENT? j A very i'rank and definite zep\y was given by the Acting-Prime Minister g (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) to a question asked him at Opawa on Saturday night why the Coalition had opmed the widow o£ the previous membec, Mr J. McCombs. "Seeing that this is not * election," said the questioner, Mr Far. nnhar Young "do you not tnmK it Sd havel'een a graceful action on the part of the Government to have ai'lowed the former member's widow to occupy his position unopposed for the remainder of the term?" ! "Sentiment, Not Politics." j j "That may be fine sentiment, but it i is not politics," replied Mr Coates. I can imagine anyone else, Mr■ H. E. Hoiland, for instance, doing what you suggest No, sir. In these days Polities ire a hard, strenuous business, and there Is no give and take. If the politics you are asked to accept are in our opinion, as they are, reactionary, then I have no apology to make in coming I before the electors to the 1m- i portant questions of the day. "If you say chivalry has gone out of politics," said Mr Young, "attend one of Mrs McCombs's meetings and you will find chivalry everywhere.' ) "Sob-stuff is all right, and we all know who it is designed to catch, retorted Mr Coates. "I arn making it perfectly clear that the Government has a policy to set this country to rights, and we are asking this electorate to return a man to Parliament to support it."