DUAL LEADERSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 8

DUAL LEADERSHIP

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DUNEDIN, This Day. The "Star," in an editorial says:—"lt is generally expected that it is Mr. Coates who will be chosen by the party, though if the physical health of Mr. Downie Stewart bore any relation to his mental qualities, and Mr. Stewart were on the spot, a different trend might be taken by the predictions. A combination of Messrs. Coates and Stewart— of the strong body and administrator's mind which the former possesses, with the wide knowledge, tact, eloquence, and political philosopher's outlook of the latter —if it could be had in one person would give an ideal leadership. Unfortunately such a candidate does not exist, and any division of authority would be quite unlikely to succeed outside of Barataria. If the country gets Mr. Coates for Prime Minister it will get one of whom, it knows nothing but good, as his energy and his superiority to precedents, when those have become restrictions and clogs on progress,. have been shown in offices less exacting and framed in a narrower sphere. What it does not know, though it suspects them, is his limitations. It may suspect them too much. Opportunity often makes the man.