THE NELSON SEAT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 October 1925, Page 4

THE NELSON SEAT

AS was pel Imps In lie expected, seeing ilr.it .’dr AI more has responded to sonic extern to rcouests for pledges, an elTorl has been made to try and extract ft mu an article we wrote on the Nelson scat on J2lh October, that which suits a particular purpose. The article should. o( course, be taken as a whole, but the following quotation sets out one lenturc clearly enough.

It t hery i.- in lie fusion, and there must lie. what good can nniir from I'u.-'inniits opposing one another at the polls? Rut we look to Mr At more to give a clear declaration of future intentions, so far as i u-oon-filence motions are. concerned. As everyone knows, it is because Mr Atniore has refused to give that declaration. that all the trouble in about. Mr At more lias certainly come off his perch to a, certain and quite an important extent. He ll a.s given the people definite pledges in certain directions sought. NY hat Mr At more fails to do is to give the electors any pledge or anything upon which they can place reliance, regarding his attitude to the Coates or Forbes parlies, other than that he would endeavour to bring about a fusion/. As matters stand at present-, electors who may desire to support either Mr Coates or Mr Forbes, still do not know where they are so far as Mr At more is concerned. In 1911, through sending Mr At more to Parliament, unpledged, hundreds, of people voted Ward when they desired to vote Massey. The people have a right to know now how Mr At more will vote in the event of such a division being called—Coates or Forbes? As we remarked yesterday, the foundation fact is that the choice between the !cubes and Coates parties as well as between these two and Labour, belongs to the people.