"SUSPECT" SEMPLE

NZ Truth, Issue 540, 23 October 1915, Page 7

"SUSPECT" SEMPLE

His Presence m Speaker's Gallery

Cause* Berious Perturbation Among Massey its Members

Tories Protest against His Being Admitted

Oa his return to the Empire City, after a lecturing tour, that doyen of Labor demagogues m the eyes of Maori - land's Boss John Hop, Bob Semple, looked m at the National Gas House on one or two evenings before the wordy warfare ceased for the session. On his first visit, Bob sat huddled up among a motley crowd of visitors on the left of tho Speaker, Ills identity securely concealed from the occupants of the Tory benches. This was well — for tho Tory peac c of mind. Unfortunately for the latter, on a subsequent visit the battling- Bob had the temerity to link up his elongated limbs alongside "X.M.P.," where he could be seen and noted of all members of the Haouse. Bob sat there, all unconscious of the perturbation his presence m the Gallery was causing m the puff-paste pates of tho Plute push behind the Premier. These giddy goats must have got it into their ganderiike thought germinators, that tho bold Bob was loaded up with hand grenades, which, during the evening- ha might send gyrating m their direction with more telling effects than tho usual DYNAMICS OP THE DEMOCRATIC DEMAGOGUE. As the evening woro on and Bob was heard to laugh derisively at some worse than ordinary silliosity from the Conservatives, two members from that side of the Haouso hastily left their places and bumped into each other aa they i careered along the lobby towards the entry to tho Speaker's Gallery, where tho blythe Bob sat, all unconscious of tho pannicky effect his pestiferous presence was having upon the Square Deal Parliamentarians. Arrived there, those loonoy-looking law-makers let some lurid language loose aa they demanded of the door-keeper Y-in-el he had let that fellow Semple profane ho sanctity of tho Speaker's Gallery? The Messenger's reply was that as doorkeeper, ho had nothing to do witb individuals; ho waa merely a ticket-col-lector, and each male Wing carrying a ticket was allowed to enter. If the gentlemen had a grievance because of Sample's presence In tho gallery then, they had better protest to the member who had given the obnoxious one tho passport. What next? Surely, tho force of faction could no further go! If Bob's preaenco o» a spectator m the Parliamentary public ■gallery so irritates Fat's dofenders m that Templo of Gab. what would be their condition did the redoubtable Robert appear on the floor of tho Haousa proper? And it Is up to tho workers to so that Robert get* there. AND GETS THERE SOON! And. us this is far from being a remote conHtmunatiou, tho ventilation of tho Huouse. for more reasons than one, had better be seen to In lime. H may bo only a strange coincidence but after the petulant nnrliamenuiriaßit hud departed and Bob emerged to go his homeward way. he found his walk-ing-stick, which, according to rule, had bi'v'ii left outride the gallery on hl« enu*rlng, had become scarce, "Truth" docs not insinuate that either ot tho two Tork'H took thni stick for spite, but they and tho wiiek wore there when Bob wtt all unsuspecting inside, and. when he camo out, they and the stick were Konc, Nuf »od!