MR. FISHER AGAIN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 188, 27 July 1911, Page 5

MR. FISHER AGAIN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir. —It is many a long day since I experienced the joy of such a meeting as I had in Hastings. It seems to have stirred the very souls of the admirers of the late Mr. Seddon and electrified the Government touts and, in one or two instances. animated possible candidates who art watching tach other like tiger cats, each fearing that the other might get the Government nomination. It was like a teaspoonful o£ Eno s fruit salt in a cup of water. The effervescence tn the newspapers has been delightful. AU anonymous. <>i course. One person, signing himself “Lest We forget,’’ finds fault with my meeting because I had a difference with the late Mr. Seddon over six years ago. That’s quite satisfactory. My constituents, who are here on the spot and knew all about it, endorsed my action by returning me to Parliament at the two succeeding general elections, so the “ Voucher incident ” didn’t hurt their dignity very much. But "Lest We Forget ” is so grieved about it. Really, it was shocking, this attacking a man through his children. Your correspondent is so hurt at it that he is ashamed to put his name to his public tears of hypocrisy. And in another part of your paper is another anonymous writer. J. S.M.” Surely he must hate beer a champion mixer of cocktails ir his day. There are so many “ cock tails” on his side of politics—people who write personalities ant hide their names-—that he would need to be pretty good to stand out from the rest. But see the mixture he wrote for the " Tribune.’ It would be difficult to find an intelligent man who could compress sc much adulterated mush into s< short a space. Not one statement in his letter is accurate. I have not time to waste on “J.S.M.’s’ and ** Lest We Forgets.’’ and other brilliant but anonymous correspondents. If they will confer with the hopeless mis-informed man wb< sat upstairs at my meeting and made silly interjections, and with the " National Ass ” who sat in the third row from the front, between them all they might arrange to come along to Hastings on a Saturday or Monday night, and we could have a ‘hot time--in the old town that night. ” " Lest We Forget ” can ask questions about the voucher incident and my “ traitoristn ” to the Liberal Partv. “True Blue” in the Napier “Telegraph.’’ but known as "Lest We Forget” in the “ Tribune ” : he could come along and tell me how “ Mr. Seddon had made very considerable personal sacrifices to keep undimned the name of Fisher.” That would he very interesting to me. for I had no stronger opponent in public life than the late Mr. Seddon, who hit-,-terlv opposed me at my first election and refused to shake hands with me on the night of the poll. That, no doubt, was part of the *' keeping undimned the name of Fisher.’’ How excessively odd. Really, n is humorous. though unintentionally so. Then there is this chap "J.S.M." f'an it be “John Stuart Mill' ’ No. I think not .he wrote sense, so it couldn’t be him. Whoever " J.S.M.’ is, he might come along and ask the silly questions contained in his silly letter. If I can manage it. I shall certainly come along to clear up the debris left by such a flood of anonymous d Liberals.—l am. etc.. F. M .It. FISHER.