A BLUSTERING POLITICIAN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 222, 15 November 1888, Page 2

A BLUSTERING POLITICIAN.

One of the most unfortunate peculiarities to which colonial statesmen (or politicians) seem prone, is the readiness to bounce and bluster upon the shallowest grounds. We have not yet heard the end of the Chinese affair in which Sir Henry Parkes made himself and the whole of the colonies look so ridiculous, and now we have in view another of those detestable quarrels which would be discreditable to a pot-house politician, and which can be cited as one of the strongest arguments against federation. Because Sir A. H. Blake does not happen to suit Sir Thomas Mollwraith's idea of what a Queensland Governor should bo, that irascible politician must neeeds make a blatant ass of himself, and befool those who are unacquainted with the bearings of the question, If there ware any justification for the wrath of the Brisbane Premier, or the character of Sir A. H. Blake could be impugned, there would be the best of reasons for the strongest opposition being made against the Imperial Government giving him an appointment In any of the oolonies ; but we know enough of Sir T. Mcllwraith's recent actions to bo Convinced that there would be little use in trying to secure his approval of anything that may be done. The agitation is discreditable to that colony, and had not the Premier (Sir T, Mollwraith) already written himself down an ass, his action in this Instance would be sufficient to condemn him in the eyes of all thinking persons who know the circumstances. If sir A. H. Blake has any friends they should consider it a mercy if ho is granted an appointment as far from Queensland, with its Mcllwraith, as friends of that colony could well wish Sir Xhomas Mcllwraith himself.