DEMOCRAT PARTY

Northern Advocate, 4 September 1935, Page 7

DEMOCRAT PARTY

LEADER IN AUCKLAND. “NATIONAL IDEAL.” [Special to “Northern Advocate.”} AUCKLAND, This Day. “The aim of the Democrat Party is to restore the union of town and country, each ■ one helping the other towards the realisation of our national idea,” said Mr T. C. A. Hislop. Leader of the Democrat Party, who arrived in Auckland today on a short visit in connection with the organisation of the work of the party. He was accompanied by Mrs Hislop and by the Dominion organiser of the party, Mr A. E. Davy. Mr Hislop said that he had come to Auckland in order to meet supporters of the party and to go into matters in connection with the campaign. He would next go to Hamilton to see supporters there, also a group of the Maori people in the district, in order to discuss certain matters with them. After returning to Wellington he would go to the South Island to meet groups of supporters of the party. Mr Hislop said that in due course the party’s campaign would be opened and the various planks would be fully explained. There was not one plank that would be put forward as part of the party’s policy which could not be carried fully into effect. The question of preferential voting, which the party favoured, involved the grave principle of the fullest possible representation of the people in Parliament, and that was the basis of true 'democracy.

Mr Hislop said that the Democrat Party would have 80 candidates in the field;