NO MIDDLE COURSE
FATE OF INDEPENDENTS
Pointing out that the coming election was first and foremost a fight between two parties only, Mrs. C. S. Stewart, Labour candidate for Wellington West, predicted a rather gloomy political fate for Independent candidates in general, and Mr. R. A. Wright, her opponent, in particular, when speaking at Northland last night. "Mr. Wright has said that he is afraid of Labour—afraid that it is going too far," said Mrs. Stewart. "If he attached himself to any party it would be the National Party. How such a person can even claim to be an Independent is beyond me. There is no middle course. 'It is dangerous at any time, but today it is doubly so, because two opposing forces are pitted against each other, and anyone who comes in between them will be swept away. As long as party Government is the ruling system the Independents will be like voices crying in the wilderness. Because of his attitude I must look on Mr. Wright as a Nationalists
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 24
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172NO MIDDLE COURSE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 24
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