MR HANAN'S OPPONENT.

Evening Star, Issue 14629, 27 July 1911, Page 2

MR HANAN'S OPPONENT.

» "SIR J. G. WARD WILL GET A FRIGHT." POLITICAL PROSPECTS DOWN j SOUTH. Mr A. Glass, secretary of the Laborers' i Umon at Invercargill, spoko at the meeting | of the Dunedin branch of tho New Zealand i Labor party last night. He said: | Being up here from Invercargill, though j I not on Labor party business, 1 thought; 1 ] j would come, along this evening, as a mem- ; ber'of tha Invercirgill branch of the New ! Zealand Labor party, to see how things j are going on. And as your chairman has ! invited me to speak I am pleased to be j ] able to tell you that, in Invercargill the movement i& going ahead. a tendency in seme places, and I suppose it is tin: same in Dunedin, to think that as Invercargill is in a high latitude, the furthest south., it is colli in polities too. That is a mistake. Though a much smaller town ' than Dunedin or Ohik.tchurch or Wel--1 liugton. there is a move on, and the efforts I j put ionvaid to return at the next General j I hj" lection not only a Labor candidate for j Invercargill. but- alio one for Avraroa j (applause.) to set against Sir Joseph Ward (renewed applause*, are being heartily sup- ! ported by the woikers. The Liberal Press i | at iirst. scoffed at the idea of anyone having- j ; ;i chance for lnvercarg'll, and it pointed i I out the magnificent .service*; rendered bv I | Mr Hunan/ Well. Mr Tlanan may have I evupported certain measures that were ! broutrht forward iu Parliament, but what ! ,re want is not men to support but men ito initiate measures. That its why w-> I think that a man to Labor should jbe brought forward We are not going j j about this'business ir any haphazard "way. j j We an > taking steps t;> thoroughly canva-s I i and influence the people and let them j know tho position. We a.ro issuing a ' paper called ' I'he Elector.' Four thocsar.d ' j ;opies of this paper find their way into the I homes of the people every week. Half of i the space is u-zc-d to advocate the claims of jibe La bo i candidate. This paper, I may i tell you, pays for itself out of tho ad"j vertisements, .so we are able to run it withj out cost As a result of that paper eirjiu!atin_' amongst the laboring classes we I Hud a keen spirit prevailing, not only for j the Labor candidate but against, the Libei r.a candidate, and now that we have a s strong man iu Mr Fa/rant to contest the ; seal there is a chance of success. {An | ; plause.) We are fully convinced that we | will have a Labor candidate for every coni stiuienry ii: New Zealand. As to the 1 Avvarua teat, u is recognised as a strongi hold, lust Mi Barclay recently sent down a j large number of copies of a letter that appeared in one of your Dunedin papers, and we took special paii.s to See that it was i circulated in that constituency, and the j ', way it was welcomed and the way that Sir j ] Joseph Ward wao ridiculed by those who i ; lead it at the KhiiV and other place;; shuns j | that we have a chance ot giving the newly- ! i made baronet the greatest fright ho ever i j bad in his life. (Applause.) We iuv.v j Lave a Labor party with 14 trade unions '. in support, ail out solidly for real Labor ' representatives. (Applai*.-e ) Our lueiii'id.s down there are perhaps more on .British j lines. We not only hold meetings, hut wo . 1 leave no stone unturned to let. every man ; ! a.nd woman on the rolls know all about the ! Labor cause and the Labor candidates. I Our people are greatly encouraged by see- . I bag the big cithu moving in the same, di- | rection. and I believe that after this clec ' tiou we shall have for the first time a solid Labor party in the House of Representatives. If wo can put in a dozen good men I we shall have reduced the power of the Liberals and gained the balance, and then j we shall be able to get as much legisla- | tion as we wish for, by forcbig each of the I present parties to do as wo bid. it should Le our aim to lessen the power of the Liberal party so that the new Labor party will have more power. (Applause.)