THE PAKOWHAI MEETING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 127, 15 May 1911, Page 4

THE PAKOWHAI MEETING.

It is difficult to reconcile the challenge issued by Mr. Donnelly at his meeting at Pakowhai. on Saturday night, “to anyone to say that he had stated Mr. John E. Lane was a dishonourable man,” with the assertion he made immediately after issuing the challenge, inferring that Mr. Lane was seeking election because he had an axe to grind either for himself or “certain people at the back of him.” Honest people, we think, will be unable to comprehend how a man can be politically honourable who seeks election to any public position with such an object in view, and to them it will be obvious that one of Mr. Donnelly’s assumptions must be incorrect. Taken all thio ugh, the answers given by Mr. Donnelly at his meeting are not likely to assist him

in his candidature. T p;-Elie rt ; sent invidious utterac os ;-.t oh-e--tion time, and mosuy '.>ke ,• ar ’-' f age of the ballot box as a means of | expressing their displeasure of such conduct. We presume that Mr. Donnelly knew his audience, but even so. we are at a loss to understand what he expects to gain by speaking disparagingly of men whose conduct all through life has ! won the confidence and respect of j all who know them. |