A POLITICAL SUGGESTION

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 August 1925, Page 4

A POLITICAL SUGGESTION

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Allow me to congratulate you upon your trenchant article upon the latest ‘‘turn” in Mr. Will Orel’s political variety show. The antics of this gentleman must by now have been sufficient to have disi.lusioned that diminishing number of people who have seriously regarded him as a possible alternative to Mr. Coates as leader of a storng anti-Labour Government. l<rom recent speeches of Nationalist parliamentarians we can have no doubt that Mr. Wilford’s followers are to a mail convinced that there should be only two parties, and that these . should be Labour and anti-Labour. Now, it seems to me that the most straightforward way to bring this about would be for the leaders of one of the parties definitely to wind up their party and frankly advise their lollowers to choose between' Labour and anti-Labour. The party to make such a move should clearly be the weaker ox the two antiiLaboiir parties—the 3at e Liberal Party. All that is needed is for a start to be made. It needs a strong member of the National Party to come forward and advise his followers to wind up their party and take the choice of the two remaining parties. If a movement in this direction wer 6 commenced in one electorate, I have no doubt whatever that the example would be widely followed elsewhere. On looking round the Liberal remnant I can see no one more fitted to take the initiative in this matter than our own member. If Mr. Corrigan would call his followers together, put the case for a two-party system clearly before them, and boldly advocate the winding up of the Liberal ■ (or National) Party, I have no doubt •

that a movement would be begun in Hawera, which, within a very short space of time, would have brought a' return to the two-party system throughout the country. Mr. Corrigan must be presumed to share the general Liberal opinion that only two parties are needed, which, more baldly, means that his own party is superfluous. Is lie a, big enough man to carry this conviction to its logical conclusion P —l am, etc., ICONOCLAST. Hawera.