PROGRESSIVE ALLIANGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12282, 8 July 1914, Page 3

PROGRESSIVE ALLIANGE.

MR WEBB'S ADVICE. By Telegraph. (Special to Oamaru Mail.) Wellington, July 7. Tlis need for an electoral arz'&ngenient with other progressive elements was urgfed by Mr Webb as a Lahorite speaking to the no-confidence motion in Parliament to-night. The member for 'Grey announced his hearty approval of Sir Joseph Ward's motion. "L want Mr Massey to remember this," he said, "that before last election lie pleaded 'Give mo power and I'll give the working classes a square deal.' I want him to remember that if political corruption followed in the trail of tbe'second ballot the corruption emanated from his side of the House. He and his party had every available motor car for Messrs Veitcli, Robertson, and Payne. The object was to use these men to make them degrade their manhood and then throw them on the scrap heap. There is 110 alliance, but common sense ' will decree that no man with a progressive idea in his head will be foolish enough to make it possible for a party to keep in pow'er though it has violated every pledge." Mr Webb drew hearty Opposition "Hear, hears" by declaring that ha would have great pleasure in voting out Massey ism, but, lie added J[and this time the Ministerialists Jfiughed) that he hoped ultimately to vote the Social Democrats in.