THE UNDOING OF MR. HOGG.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 5

THE UNDOING OF MR. HOGG.

_ Sir, "Tho King i 3 dead. Long live the Kmg/' --Hogg, Hlrt--Miiußtor, : -'ißi-de»i;-. > iong live •• Hogg, ; too parliamentarian. ; I use ;ihe term Parhamentariah advisedly', because-10 is.'the' §utwa«l sign :pf- "the 'in-' . ward/situation: ■ In . the' mystic march of • ovents, 'controlling .self^govenimentinj'New Zealand, terms aro, more often usf-d as' aust, M'Tjficlond th'an. as rays 'to'illumine' : tibe" track. to healthy progress"; -If Ma applyto! Mr. .Hogg " the term .'statesman,we '"are faded with; the debacle',which tilted him' from the Ministerial pedestal to arena of; the rani and file. If yro use the appellation .politician, it implies: the working out of .some process ...with, a defined political' IhiswonM; be,-infinitely too much to expect •Ofc Mr. Hogg,-.,,?F0 r " iny own • part, I don't the.electors generally look for anything or the Bort, - and it is''pretty - certain iintil ;they do they; yiir never find it.' Blink tho matter how we may,. Mr.; Hogg' has' fallen *F 6 ™ -Party aid belongs to the other side. ; If the difference were in degree, the l degradation could' only bo; wiped' out by an_ -appeal to the fpoU.-If "the difference w in toto,. he belongs to" the Opposition. - The .meeting . arranged for Thursday; pfpposed, an,insult td his ; constitutor, • t . 11 ?.. 5 9?0 er Mr- Hogg realises .this,' and camels rt, the easier will be. his ■ rehabilitation, in jretigo. ; He - his blundered egrepusly. Let him not bluhdor ogam, before the; inn goes :down and DmSt,' ° f k' s Parliamentary June 19, IM. ' . ***** BODLBY -