A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14690, 26 May 1911, Page 8

A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN.

Speaking to a reporter in Wellington concerning his present political campaign, Mr. W. F. Massey (Leader of the Opposition) said: —" I have already addressed 29 meetings in different parts of the Dominion. I have been enthusiastically received in every part I have visited. I have fully another dozen meetings to address before the House meets, and I am quite satisfied that more interest wiu be taken in the coming elections than has been the case for many years. If it were not for the wholesale bribery that is going on—the attempt that is being made to bribe people with their own moneyit would be very easy to predict the result. I am glad to be able to say that I have come across many instances where both local bodies and private individuals have refused to sell their political principles for the prospect of public expenditure. I am no prophet, or the son of a prophet, but I will simply say that I am confident that the Government is going to lose a number of seats in the cdming election. I believe, speaking generally, that the electors will vote for men of sound political principles, and men who are prepared to stand by their principles rather than support those whose only policy is to retain the position they at present occupy."