The "Walk Out.”

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 75, 3 December 1887, Page 3

The "Walk Out.”

Thz Press has the following strictures on the “ wa'k out’’ in thb Ht-usB last week : —The Opposition yesterday made the feeblest exhibition of themselves that they hare yet made, which is saying a good deal. It is difficult io understand how any rnSti pretending to the qualifications of a leader of a party could treat them so ill As to place them in such a ridiculous position as Sir Julius Vogel placed his followers in : but, on the other hand, it is difficult to understand how any party could be so foolish as to allow any man, leader or not, to place them in such a position. The smallness of their number added to the ridiculdus absurdity of the thing. But for the melancholy aspect of it, which is conspicious enough, nothing could be more laughable, as a political demonstration, then the sjiectacle of Sir Julius Vogel and the eight unhappy victims of his silliness, straggling out of the House, after the views of the “ party ” had been explained by their leader. There is nothing at all imposing in a protest of that kind by eight disappointed and quite unnecessary men. If they had not only |

walked out cf the House, but stopped out and never come back again, they would none of them be missed. That was evidently the prevailing idea In Members’ mind yesterday j and we venture to say it prevailed quite as generally and as strongly on the Opposition side a* on the Ministerial side. The plain truth is Sir Julius Vogel ha* thoroughly disgusted the party who ehoe him for their leader nearly two months ago. Be has not done them credit on a single occasion, but, on the contrary, hi* so-called leader, ship ha* dragged them through an unbroken serie* of failures and mortifications. He has shown himself totally unworthy to be trusted with the opportunities of a leader; because he never by any chance uses his opportunity in the interests of hi* party. Even when they agree with him beforehand a* to what he is to do, he never does it. He simply breaks faith with them and takes a lice of his own which covers them with confusion.