OUTSIDE OPINION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 6, 18 December 1911, Page 4

OUTSIDE OPINION.

Tin: efttsbi-’g di. i’a< whmh lias ou raki n the Ward Mmiotiy v a-: roi. unexpected in Am-lrd© ami the ”8;. .ln< y Mcrnir.g Herald” Ims Li. 1 - q;n ,ji ly tom-hed up-.n tlangemm: spots in :• m- <.f i.iberuii: m in iti's i-i.entr.v. Writing al't.r ti;-- rcs'.d! o* r the first ballots the ”Hetah-i’' points out ‘..Lal “even if the (:oxlent party rflricit .s its pm-nom so far as to emiimnml a majority, it • . <t that it Las been I.::’■■■; ;>t;slt:"d. A-", things tire now, i’ldctd. an I)j ; ■ .•,•>!> vietmy would . *■. '.mi st.mil surpi m. The;-:' will ’.aried <'xpl.'in:’.t.ion, m> doubt, i.f the result, whatever it may 1 is safe to asimme. however. .Im; r. largclv im---cti v-.ie against :.. rd Governmcrit ctirmoi Lt- d:-mis- ■,< d by the custom 'try election com > ! tir of uni-ii:- i'lcties, wlucli, by th--witi, tlii- Prime Minister has al’-rtwh witul. It is more reasonable i ■■ l.c i’eve that the i si.liimr’i.v Im© icr.i i-p of office by a single party, whiih I’t ; been the outstanding fca- ; <:: X' • pc-liim-s. i.; . m ■ngto an eml at ir.st. In ntfii < .-'s ■ it might well happen chat no sf rii..".:: Io < 1 ;>ere dit a .'Jiiiistry. If it full'. i< it'.’ds rather by am cm it k- b-ss <<f i »n; . The well •-.r-.v.;. theory of t’-e swing of tbi’ pc-idt:!>tm mis oftiu been iii-gcd in < of the dism-sm! oi' aiipwinh stable Admin© rat ©ti. fc-r which uo theory sit film’d. If t-hcre L-’ -meh possibility of atif'mmli.- n-u-r--of opinimi in the <■ tse < f i.-o':i-parntiwdy shoit live 1 (• >'• enini' n' « ihrre is every r.’iv.;.:: ;<• expect ; t m i cast’ like th:i’. of New Z<-:’.!tind Lib< rr.limi. v. ith tv-enty .‘. tars comimmus oilice.” The “Herald 1111 ,•_ gar’s oil m the qaestion of © Jm-i el; Ward's Piemiership and poii-ts out l.Tu !>is sm-cess in th--ptvt has been bail: up-m a \ igi .rm pc.'.it-y >f amoi'.io;i» < mC’pri-''. 'u ..-tir-h the fi’.iti.r oi pcrsoti'l magnt’.imi has not l.ei'ti nearly so pow' fit!. Strong in a sub‘4 atit it’l Par Im menlary majority Sir Joseph Ward has imposed gre-rt schemes <.n the Dmoi©mt. in the <-am m s mt? < : idtm'i.-m <T <•■ ■i.-. ; i !<■■'. But. tlicoikm- always 1 •<’< :; larking io them the roiifidcm-e liiat t.mv re ally r;-; -l iiit d the mind of -t people workm-t ©roimii I’m medium of trusted lemtership. If Lii.i ".a li’m is no’.v .• 1-e depos.-d. that is. the < :<plaint!: ::: :■=■ to be found not so mueii in the deriim-' r.f that ©ith m New i as m the loommiiig oi the presm;Li© rai leader's grip upm*. a pm-plu ue'-.-r str mly he’d by pr-rsonal ri- L ■ ;©, and gntdimlly yr-cwri mimmimthetim” Our con' epmorrirv Ims : vith-iii ly a very keen m t side knowI,: i!'.:'e <■: ovr positi-mi. the l .imp!:' ©r."'- i-ot lorn: f.'11:11 <■!;!.er in Now Zmdamd Libcrahsm, -mt have- !'.-si I’.'iii: in the simi'tium ;.ms,m u: Li*o■ v■;11 —:*: wih.-Ii i.ns 'm ir-•’r-i er!si'd. !*’! :" aiimmi:-'ra t it-ii.