"Why is it that tho platform' speaker, fails so often in :the Hbmse of Gom--10ns?" asks Mr' T. P. O'Connor. "It t. --j x- _•— ±i lo explanation,-but e. It is that the is essentially a _ _iblv. It deals with tho ■ete, with tho facts and figures of the moment. It cannot stand those kpeaches on tho funclamerttal differi between political parties which such an effect on the popular 'audience. It likes a roan to bo terse, to bo relevant, to be on the root. A -i.an vrbo wanders, who is venomous, ho deals in pla'titndes. and offends. Emphatically, that is not the ay to get the tone of the Bouse."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7027, 15 January 1910, Page 3
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