THE POLITICAL SITUATION

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 13

THE POLITICAL SITUATION

Sir, —It is gratifying to some people to note that at least one New Zealander has had the courage to write to your esteemed journal, deploring a regrettable factor of the United Party’s success. 1 refer, to the person who signed himself “Anti-chaos,” in to-day's issue. I endorse every word of the last paragraph of that plain-speaking gentleman’s letter. I might add that what is in the back of his head is on the lips of thousands of broadminded electors in the country to-day. The Reform Party has always worked in the open; it has relied, thank goodness, on its advocates to plead its cause. There is such a thing as cricket, even in politics. Neither Labour nor the United Party seem to have grasped this fact. Sir, I will not encroach on your time and space to give vent to my feelings, which are shared by all those who are pledged to the Reform Party, and its good name. To those who cannot appreciate the sincerity and prudence of that party, I would say, look at its leaders, and if they can find men of greater honour, integrity, and wisdom, let them produce them. If they can, then I will be among the first to say: “Get out, Reform 1”. If they can’t, and knowing that they can’t, they persist in humbugging the country’s greatest asset, a stable Government, they had better leave politics alone. . .—I am, etc., YOUNG ELECTOR. Pahiatua, November 21.