VITUPERATION OF PLUTE.

NZ Truth, Issue 443, 13 December 1913, Page 2

VITUPERATION OF PLUTE.

Masseyites Paucity of Moral

Principles.

Bight along the lino of last week's election attiLyttelton, the 1 tactics of the Rllverfcails have manifested bo- ' yond all doubt the moneybags' cpVlective realisation of the power of that party which they ara out to crush. New Zealand's political engagements m the past hava been bought with an amount of Reform election methods which, although regarded at tho time as being rather l contemptible, is rendered white as snow m comparison wtn the lowdown, sneaking actions which cha^ 'acterised that party's fight against the election of the Labor nominee, James McCombs, at torttelton. " ••■ "Truth" has discussed the attack - made by on unknown porson on Mr. ' McCombs, with a view to. involving him m A SERIOUS UIBEU A CTION during his election campaign. / \Vq have also noted th^> lact that whilati Labor ' organisers' vrero proceeileU against by. the police for hoIQiUR open-air meetings, the "JJcJormers" were permitted to" blare thoir ''progressive platform.* 11 from any old 1 point they chose. In our last issue we convnonted on the Reform Leaguo's prematuro cldslng of tho Lyttelton rolls, and tbo consequent disfranchisoment of hundreds of Labor., voters. But, having hopelessly foiled m their endeavors to cast a damper, on tho local Labor mov«- * ment by theso contemptible thrusts, tho Reform puppets last week dealt the "unklndcst cut of all, by ajttackin? m a snide, sneaking manner, not the Labor party nor tho candidate personally, but, the candidate's pocket and means of livelihood. It has been . openly state<l m Christ- , chxwh that if TMr,<: McCombs were' roturned, to Parllajtifnt, the Reformers' fight woitld continue— that, In fact, there were certain traders who would see to it that, ho wa». driven TO THE BANKRUFTOY COURT./ Not contented with this threat, a section of the Reform supporters entered on a telephone campaign and regularly rang uj> Mrs. McCombs, and put to her a stereotyped question. "How would you caro for Mr. McCombs to bo rendered bankrupt ?" One can scarcely credit that any party would stoop to such mean, despicable methods, yot it is proved such methods wero preconceived by tho fact that already traders with whom Mr. McCombs has dono business for many years wore unanimous lost week m suddenly stopping hia credit. McCombs, howover, declares that such efforts to crush him will be futile. On Tuesday last Lyttelton Bhoweja, In no unmißtokeable way, what it thought of those low-down, miserable, measly, Masseyito V»ctics. The election results , camo out solid and decidod:— !J. McCombs, Social Pcmocrat., 2075 M. J. Millar, Ministerialist .... 1560 J. B. La urenson, Liberal „... 9*B Dr Thaekor. Independent Liberal 278 W. Radcllffe. Independent Liberal m and form a complete pr.oof as to TIT P. POLITICAL nA^KUOPTQ«3 of the "Deform" crowd.^ McCflH^ is only threatened with ;t^i|^^^V^ flnancial cxtincllon— uiut men 11 vo long— - w nil© M» cflymWn&W have proclaim^ their hovcless In-j solvoncy— politically, morally amy socially. ■ t