MR. MOORE AND VOTESPLITTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 138, 8 December 1914, Page 4

MR. MOORE AND VOTESPLITTING.

Mi". F. T. Moore addressed the electors of Johnsonville last night. Mr. Dunbar. SLoane occupied the chair. The candidate said that Mr. Fitzgerald ought to "accept! the position laid down by Sir Joseph Ward and his supporters to vote for the man selected by the Leader of the Opposition to receive the official Liberal vote for the Suburbs seat. Unless Mr. Fitzgerald did this he would forfeit the goodwill of all bona fide Liberals in the Suburbs electorate, and be regarded as no better than those Liberal M.P.'s who had treacherously ratted against their own party to place the Miiesey Government in power. The right and honourable thing for Mx. Fitzgerald to do, seeing that his name was not among Sir Joseph Ward's official list of candidates, was to avoid "vote-splitting and graciously request all his friends to vote for the speaker. The ousting of the Massey Government was such a gray» necessity at the present puncture that not one single democratic vote should be wasted, when there was an ofJiciai candidate in the field accepted by the leaders of both the Liberal and the Labour Parties. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried unanimously, followed by cheers for the Labour Party and the candidate. '