A MODEL SPEAKER

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1761, 27 March 1874, Page 3

A MODEL SPEAKER

Some highly amusing articles on the "Collective Wisdom of New South Wales" appear from time to time in the Sydney Morning Herald: — "With regard to a speech made by Mr Walker in the legislative Assembly, it was commented upon by Mr Dignam, and this is what was said : — • This affair,' said he, " just let us into some of their little private dodges. So you thought to bribe East Sydney by giving him champagne, did you ? Oh, Windsor, Windsor, lam ashamed of you. If he had a weakness for a good feed you needn't have thought him so jolly soft as to be bought by one. Then it's about the first time that X ever heard that a member can't sit in any part of the house he likes. Suppose I choose to go and sit alongside of Windsor, is that any reason I should allow him to drag me about where he likes 1 He's too young and too weak in intellect, and altogether incapable of taking his seniors in hand, and drawing their front teeth. I certainly expected to hear something better from him, seeing that he is private secretary to the Opposition. [Mr Walker : " No."] No. Nonsense ; don't we know you are ? Don't you do all their little business ; aud didn't you try to seduce me last night 1 Yea, you did. You know you did. I was nearly settled. Didn't you try to put the comether on me, 'Dignam, old man, why don't you go home. Yoxi look nearly knocked np. You want rest. Go home and go to bed.' Yes, that's the way he tried it on. As if , I didn't see his little game. Why, bless you, all he said was just like pouring | water on a duck's back — it all ran oft" again. So, says I, ' Hullo, Windsor what's up with you ? If there's anything come over you, you had better go home yourself.' That was his game last night. To-night he's broke out in a fresh place ; he's going at it without instructions from the heads of the firm. They certainly did not know what he was goiug to do, or they would have him in a paddock. As to East Sydney voting for Martin and Parkes because he went to their picnic, there's others have been in the same boothole. But when these gentlemen had got a good thing, and didn't know how to keep it, but let it slip through their fingers, they can't expect members to be such gommels as to let themselves be dragged through the mire to get it back for them. J