CORRESPONDENCE. POLITICAL HONESTY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 June 1928, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

POLITICAL HONESTY

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Your leading article on the meeting of the United Party at Eltham. is timely. One hundred grown men ■ presumably members of this partypledge their [political faith to Mr "Wilkinson—take him on trust as it were —and yet Mr Wilkinson plights no trust to them. Mr Green, on the other 1 hand, is straight out. He will oppose Reform. Mr Wilkinson, is coy and coquettish. “Gentlemen, you have my sympathy. You ask how I will vote. 1 may vote against the Reform Party, and yet again on the other hand 1 may not. It all depends on the way the political cat jumps. Rut ; gentlemen, you can be assured of this —you have my sympathy.” Of course one can. understand Mr Wilkinson’s position. He knows —no one better —that, to ally himself with a party which change® its name every six. months, which has as many aliases as the letters of the alphabet, which on its record is destined for the political scrap heap at the next election, would _be .political suicide. Why should he tie himself to a political corpse, to a party, which at every election has been cut in half, until soon there will he no fragment left? And yet if Mr Wilkinson is to have a hope against Mr Hawken. he must have a dear run; it would never do to have a Liberal-Nationalist-United candidate splitting the votes. One can understand his position, but what is one to think of the hundred grown men? I am, etc., JOHN BLUNT.