A Second Ballot Spectre

NZ Truth, Issue 943, 22 December 1923, Page 1

A Second Ballot Spectre

Just before the British general election, Mr. Massey, on tour m Ulster, told the British electors that freetrade was no good for them, and the electors replied ■ by kicking the Conservatives tarifflte. majority out of the House; of Commons. In the-, course of this painful operation, three-cornered elections figured, and all parties seem io have gained' thereby; some minority Wins"*;. Whereupon -some genius, indignant with these triangles, proposed "the second ballot. Now, this is a point about which they might legitimately have gone to Mr. Massey for advice. Ha is Just the man who could have insirucled. them. Ail l he needed to Jdo was to tell the uninformed Britishers the Inner history of, -a. certain election at Otaki, and probably no more would have been " heard about the second ballot. It seems that political authorities are loth to offer advice except outside of their own fiartidtilai' province.