A CALL FOR CONSISTENCY.

Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 3

A CALL FOR CONSISTENCY.

TO TOE EDITOH. Sir, —How dare these Citizens’ Longue people follow the example of the Labor Daily and run a “ticket,” thus upsetting .Labor’s little game? The wail of the despised six who failed to secure endorsement by the league is amusing. Obviously they are chagrined, so turn and malign the organisation which rejected them, it was ever thus. But why do not the disgruntled six themselves form a “ticket” and come into the gamble? It would then bo a. sort of “three-card trick,” with twenty-five bettors waiting anxiously_ 'n Thursday night next for the “ rignt card” to turn up. It is really very funny to read between the. lines of the letters appearing in your paper of Wednesday last. The three writers on the subject all demand or hint that the members of the Citizens' League should come nut and show themselves; should announce who and what they are, their pedigrees, and performances. Yet these writers sign themselves “Reform,” “Elector, and "Critic,” and not “John Smith,” "IVil liam Brown,” and “James Robinson, ’ or whatever their names may be. In short, they are playing the very game of hide-and-seek which they denounce. I am not a member of the mysterious league, but I have followed its propaganda pretty closely, and have failed to see where it has dictated, or where it has condemned the lady candidates, or done many of those things which the despised six and their supporters say it, has done. Last election, if I remember rightly, the league ran no ticket for the Hospital or Harbor Board; but it ran one for the City Council—and got it in. So its arguments have found favor with a lot of people, and no doubt will aga.m. — I am, etc., Pomados. Afril 21.