UNDER WHICH KING?

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9537, 24 November 1893, Page 2

UNDER WHICH KING?

Mr Caknell seems to be emulating the chameleon in his lightning-like changes of color on the drink question. At his meeting at the Gaiety Theatre he said he loved Sir Robert Stout, but stood as a 3taunch follower of Mr Seddon. Then, after saying he wonld vote "rs straight is a gun " on the direct veto, in answering a question by Mr E. H, Williams he made id clear that the " straightneas '■ was thab of the stock, and nob of the barrol. If it were made a party question be would vote with his party. Now Mr Seddon's Ministry i* bound to support the present Act and make id a party question, so that if they remain in office Mr Carnell will vote against an effective direct veto law. If they go out of offiiei which (it) present seems most) probable, and any succeeding Ministry introduces a real direct veto law, Mr Cunell, voting with bis party, would vote against the Ministerial measure. So that he stands as an opponent of the direct veto. Yet in circulars distributed fur and wide he represents himself as a firm supporter of the direct) veto I As it this were nob enongb, there was yesterday, outside the window of his committee room in U>ist-inaa-street, some doggrel vtrtes in which ho is represented as a staunch follower of Sir Robert Stout and Prohibition ! Has souls enemy done this thing ? If so, why was it not pulled down as soon as perceived 1 It it hns Mr Cornell's sanction, how does he reconcile id with his declaration that though he loved Sir Robert Stout he would nob follow him, bub Mr Seddon ?