HOW IT WAS DOME.
>f ".Sir —You.are. behind the'.times. You say ■ 'tliat : labour 'won.'the election for Mivtfislop. ;■ -Not 11 'at aU'." I 'The Prohibitionists won it.' : ' "YeS/'Sir-; 1 thft Prohibiticjiists. Not that I: . . ;raindv. :I prefer to take Mr. Bell's opinion to'., Mr. .Fishor's,..andj. though; I do not agree. '/'< .with'a good niany.things that Mr. Hislop has ;; done; I* thinkV his' victor}' will . do. good in ' ■, teaehing r tHo Prohibitionists a lesson. They .thought Mr." Aitken (a good num.,though I' do^'tiiiko..;his: politics) .-was going to ■bo.. • beaten,-.,and were afraid to como out oil his side, : ; although they know the liquor party were fighting, for. his opponent. : Mr. Aitken would not hayo.won even with tho support of, : his; friqnds, .but; ho'would -have been closer up; -Well,- Sir, L want ! you to understand,.-, that.-politics.,wow.tho election,, or helped to..' Yousay i Labour., and Socialism and liquor . . wore..fightina 1 for Mr. Hislop. So they were, . 'and they will, fight together at the general •election, and they mean to'win.' They won't '.. Jiavo■ tho.Prohibitionists witli'them.then, but -j ithey;.will wih all the same—l am,-etc., , May 1. ' PLAIN TALK.-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 9
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