MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1911, Page 2

MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES.

ELECTIONEERING AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE. WEEK-END TRIPS JUSTIFIED. t A few outspoken, words on the *ub jeet of the elections in which Ministers are concerned were uttered during a debate on & local Bill in the House last night. Mr. Massey took occasion to complain, that the Legislative Council had been adjourned for several days «o as to allow a Minister to go electioneer ing, and that another Minister, who was a member of th« House, had been absent from his eea-t on a similar mieBion, Later Sir Joseph Ward Replied with Some warmth, 'ihe Ministers referred to, he said, had gone at their own ex- | penae, and were fully entitled to go in 1 "Connection with, a position that every one recogaieed. One Minister had lost his &ea.t on account of the alteration of the boundaries, and tho other Minister had decided to contest A seat. The Council adjourned in the ordinary way while the .Estimates were under con«ickra,tiofl, and the Attorney-General took the. opportunity to go up to Parnell and deliver a sp*ech. "The Leader ol the Opposition recognises that he is going to be .returned by a large majority and he doesn't like it." Mr. Masjeyj The wieh is father to the thought. - Sir Joseph. Ward s If not it will reflect oft the intelligence of the public. Mr. Maesey s You will find they have no love up there for Southern reject*. Sir Joseph Ward t That* rathe* iuud, because 'if the hon. gentleman will come down to my ( electorate, for instance, I will regard it as one of the; opportunities of my life, but 1 would not suggest that -he came from the Far North, t wpuld say j "fiere is a man like myself who appeal* to your suffrage." They would put him out, but- 'I would not have suggested that he was a reject from the North, because we are one as a country, and the sooner we get rid of the parochial feeling the better it will be for the country as a whole. We are going to fight the election fairly, and I nope and believe, without any boasting about an- overwhelming majority, that the good sense of the people will show 1 them that they have a good thing and not put a good thing on, one side in order to get a bad thing in its place.