The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER 26, 1928. CAN MR. GOLFMAN PUT IT ACROSS?

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10727, 26 October 1928, Page 4

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER 26, 1928. CAN MR. GOLFMAN PUT IT ACROSS?

In striking contrast to Mr Atom cur, who is proving a shrewd tactician in connection with his effort tu win the Bay of Plenty seat foi Labor, Air. Coleman, who is again aiming at gaining Gisborne for Air. Holland’s party, blundered into opening Ilfs campaign in such a rash manner that his friends must have felt annoyed as well as amazed. Pelmaps he reckoned that, in his more exalted position as a member of tilt executive of the N.Z. Labor Party, it was expected of him that he should adopt a more belligerent tone than a Labor candidate drawn from the rank and file! At any rate, at Makaraka, Air Coleman spoke out boldly, but. unhappily for himself—and his chances—-threw discretion 'completely'" to tlie.yvindg, When he gains more experience he will learn that, though it may pay to attack if one has the necessary “ammunition,” it has never paid any budding politician to fire off’ a few dud shells and expose oneself to a raking onslaught! AIT 'Coleman, it will have been noted, attempted the bluff that, critics had now had it forced upon them that the Labor Party had, in the past, been unjustly condemned, lu short, he averred that opponents were now content to describe its leaders as only “pink” instead of "red,” as they had formerly done. If he lias deceived himself on the matter, it is, however, not likely that, ait Li-Labor electors arc in any real doubt as to the. true position. The Labor party is greatly mistaken if it considers it is being judged; by the outer garment of paler color that it has assumed as a disguise? for the purposes of the General Elections! The bulk of the electors'

know perfectly well it was the un-. varnished truth that lie unwittingly: uttered—in his clumsy effort to score: a point—when lie remarked that] “the party has not , changed one * whit from what it was in years goiioj by!” Just so. As Afr Coleman has; offered such a. splendid opening, ft; would be a pity to miss the oppor-j tunity to stress what a great gulfj really does stand between Labor’s j professions—for the pui'poses of the! coming election—and its real inten- 1 tions, if it ever should get into pow-j er. The Labor party is, in fact,! playing falsa with the electors. Itj invites them to study its latest! “trick” platform, .so studiously j framed, and to forget altogether the! objective of the party ! Unfortunate- i ly‘for Air Holland and liis -friends, j they have not . been successful; in their attempt to cover up their i real political intention, which is “the; socialisation of the means of produc-' tion, distribution and exchange.” j