RIGHT OF "SLATING"
If his opponents' "slated" him he had the right to "slate" them in return the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, stated at Stratford when an interjector suggested that Mr. Semple should move on from criticism of Mr. W. J. Poison, National member for Stratford, to facts. Mr. Semple was referring to Mr. Poison when he said: "He will say anything. He is not worth taking notice of. He doesn't reason; he just cackles." After Mr. Semple had referred to the Hon. , W. Nash as "one of the shrewdest men" he had known, he was interrupted **id, referring to Mr^ Poison riposted: "Do you think I'm a dummy? He slated my colleagues and he slated' me. I have a right to slate him. If you don't like it," he said to the interjector, "you can give your seat to someone who does."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 20
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147RIGHT OF "SLATING" Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 20
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