CANDIDATES AND ELECTORS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 28 October 1925, Page 4

CANDIDATES AND ELECTORS

lilE areoiniucdat ing claim put forward i>y Mr Ati'a.re that "a vote for him is a vole tor the Coates and Forbes partic s” looked strange when compared with Mr Coates’s declaration— I am not making a fetivih of fusion. i am asking you to ret uni me i o power ar d that ’« that'. It looks stranger still when compared with the declaration of Mr Forbes. Speaking at Christchurch the other evening, as reported in to-day Vi issue, Air Forbes said—

They (Forbes party) hoped to give the country a strong ti tough government- to run the country as il should be run. Both parties are appealing to the .nen-sy to return them to power., and incidentally, saying pretty hard things about inch other. Hi the teeth of these facts Mr Atmore declaro.i "a vote tor him is a vote for Coates and Forbes.” No one can foretell what the result of the election will her and electors should not lie ticked to cast their votes on an uncertainty. Quite rightly they are told what Air Atmore

v ill d i if fusion lakes place. They have an equal right to know what lie will do (as !k tween Coates and Furlie.s parties), il fusion does not take place. For the danger is that if they are t ,ot told I he\ may vote Coate.-i when they inten. h u to vole Forbes or Forbes when thev intended tn vote Coates. Mr At close, if returned, will in such an eventualii\ have ( o go into one lobby or the other. He has never tried to dodge any such vote. But why does he dodge telling I lie people now, before they vote, theteby preventing them from knowing exactly tvhet her their voles

will express their wishes. By his withholding that which the people have a right to know it is practically certain that many will he misled and it sorry disillusionment- will be in store for them. The foundation fact is that the choice between the Forbes and Coates parties as well as between those two and 1 .ahour, belong to the people.