MR THOMSON, M.P., ON MR TAYLOR, M.P.

Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 2

MR THOMSON, M.P., ON MR TAYLOR, M.P.

TO THK EDITOR. Sir, —I thing Mr G. M. Thomson was singularly urfortonate in selecting Mr Taylor as a specimen of the failure of independence. Contrast Mr Taylor's position with Mr Fisher's, for instance. The latter, a supporter of Mr Massey, who declares for freehold, poses as a leaseholder, and consequently occupies a fake position. Mr Taylor, whilst leaning to the Liberal party, retains hie freedom, and whether the House needs him or not matters little, for the country docs, and trusts him, believing in bis absolute honesty ;of purpose every time. It strikes me Mr Massey heeds liim. At any rate, he has not faced the issue Mr Taylor forced on him as a consequence of his usual tactics of mere assertion. Mr Taylor has many faults, hut I question if lhere is another man in the House to-day more generally credited with honesty of purpose His ability nobody doubts, and his work has proved that ho is no mere cipher. Put Mr Thomson and Mr Taylor on the platform, and see vvho would command full houses anywhere, everywhere, and all the time.—l am, etc., Libera.!,. July 24.