POLITICS AT PAHIATUA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10018, 17 June 1895, Page 2

POLITICS AT PAHIATUA.

we are very muoa concerned about the politico-mental condition of the Pablatuane. Their political victualler la oar old friend and ex-brother journalist), Mr A, Hogg, Since Mr Hogii quitted the honorablo cureor of a jonronlisi Uo lros bocomo a sorb of political friar— wo will not Bay a mendicant fri&r, bat ono whom the faithful have kept warm and comfortable, and -whoie pockets they have taken oare to keep well lined. The Pahlatuane and the Ma&tertonians have

I supplied bim plentifully with the tlnowa I I of war, and In reborn he has Riven them I some vigorous Bpeechoa. Our fear was ) that he had been overloading the political j alomach of his patrons, bub tata fear Is I uow somewhat relieved by the informaI tion just to hand, that he has adminis- | tared a qualifying dose of skim milk. I Within aweek of the meetingof Parliament I Mr Hogg has been giving them "an 1 account of his doings of the past eesI aiou ! " Hather late in the day, bat as I we have said, this weak pap comes in I very well alter that strong ineab of I political dectrlue tar which they testified I their gratitude by handing a fad purso to I the member. Mr Hogg ia a very live I member, and no doabli as long as purees I continue to arise hero and there, be will I 1 display unwearied vitality. We may I confidently look forward to a good deal I of Mr Hogg'a eloquence ia the coarse of I the ensuing session, and readily as we I acknowledge his resources, activity, and I powers, we shonld be sorry to see too I many of bis order in the Parliamentary | ranks, For Mr Hogg fairly represents I the order of professional politicians j with an added touch of the windbag ; and I wind Is a special characteristic of the j politics of to-day. Id is precisely this I which gives the tbonghtfal observer ■ J " panße," and makes him doubtful of the 1 I soundness of the doctrines promulgated so ' I loudly, and by snch windy politicians, 1 I The moßb thoroughly democratic oi all the I Acts upon our Statute Book la the Eda- ■ cation Act, the father of which, Mr C. C. Bowen, a so-called ultra Conservative] framed ib and launched it quietly and unostentatiously. He never ! stamped the country or made perfervld harangues about it, and - nobody evei . dreamt of presenting him with a service of plate or a purse of gold. The sovereign people never mention him in their prayeis, i yet he was the truest of Democrats, a Democratic pioneer who prepared the soil for the operations of the political farmer. Trnly we are making history of a certain 1 sorb —at a very rapid rate in New • Zealand 1 _ m ____^_ m __ m _ m

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