GISBORNE ELECTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15080, 1 December 1919, Page 5

GISBORNE ELECTION.

j Commenting on the.Qisborne olectioity tho New" Zealand Times states: ]Vfi'. Lyenar's mauv reasoiv for supporting Mr. Massey i,s, a,s he put it^-, "that.- Sir. Joseph. War^d had ..nob.d efinitely stated that, he; would be prepared: to vdo without extronxe- Labor's -help; arid;, that Mr. !Massey -had made the position perfectly clear. '*'■• \ Where is Mx\- Lysnar'a. judgment ? , The ; newspapers .and jßtansard: contain, so . many . statements ;of iSir Joseph Ward's firm .'determination -to have nothing: to do with. -the Labor ex-ttemists-tlia/t we ai'e amazed at ■ the ' Lysr nar deciaratiQn.vvWe- will .j^ive-. him. one of the- most recent of these declarationst A?» ■Ohpistchuroh/i -Sj^r-' Joseph; said, on November • 10th :• "He did; not want extvemistg either . frohij the' -Tory or, Labor fiide, -He wanted ;pedple to,' realise the position ■ of. the country, , and that ro« construct.ion : was nece.ssary, and that the sane progressive party* should be. placed' -.m power,, to > steer "the oountryr through ithe existing ■ difficulties." If Mb*. , Lygnar; has- , nob seeii^ .this, • nothing mofce need be said;, except .that ; jii-,; Lysnar; will,, of cpurse, rjecjjnsidor liis posittonl.' r lf he' has- seen. .it, then, it is " clear that Sir; Joseph, so far -frpnv ■ iToj>'/being. explicit?, enough, has been too explicit for Mr. Lysnar,. He ihas ; at all events^ be^ni explicit enough to show thas he fwill with'-neither the;/Ak-ti-eijtiist?-of«Lkbor. nor with the extremists^of Toryism. ' Mr. Lysnar's ' chicf f desire evideiitly;; like th%' of ,;' so ; many, Tories,^ js. nqt. so' much- tp, -smash -the I.W.W^i ,a.B: to- see Liberal .ideas- ol>Hter-» ated .%; the^^ .mass. "o|..? <^pi!i'yi6m > ■-.. Both leaders having pronounced definitely against the Labor extremists, Mr. .Lysiiar. naturally -favors the vTory. Nevertheless,-; it. is.xight: to point- out- thafcunSir Joseph W^ai'd declared explicitly agdinst the . extremists -of -Labor ' at ; the outset of his .campaign, and Mr. Lysnar >must ha^e- known it. : Here, is a paragraph f rpm ■"', Sir , Joseph's nVanifesto of : >AugH^t 21 |ast ": ■« "Tlje Liberal Pai-tv : -' stapds '- for law and orderV . It, %vill Jacifitute '„by tlve' amplest legislative promise the »>ylll oi tlie, majority (translating ' itself 1 ; into law, ibut it: will give 9no countenance, to any movement,, organisation ■• -or ' party .which seeks '• to socurej redress of labor ■ grievances by action, v or '• auy • pther methods outside.^ the v l aw; - „I # recognise the. :VJght .' of : every v man ..,to ; discuss- any particulai* question iii' time of jjeace-^-it is- "different when • war - is caging but whilst saying, this I. recognise >no right of, any .person to either . create" or '.encourage:> violence, lawlessness,; -or disorder when, the present constitutional .methods are'free to him." If that were -ia<|V: cx r plicit enough, -theve. are Sir Joseph'smany severe denouncements of tlie'*'goslotf". policy, ■ AVhich' • the extremists faybr notoripusly, and that v ought' -to clear the situitipn...: Further, Vttieve" is the -loutSPPken .condemnation. ,by .the. Hon W.- D.v §. • Haoppiiajd 'of ' tWiWi'e'inlet's on the •ques^qw-'pf •ioy^lty; I '.ahid Mr !j|acv Donald r'eprWents ' the • Liberal t Par ty , to a::mah". "All" *»f; : wKich' prpyeis" that^lr.' Lysnar's •• insfnuatibri— it fs; really \. 4 1 £opd d'eap Adrei~d : f '-S>r - Joseph Wai*d' > B"t'J«fan,wg<. t6&&t& 'the tfiibor. . ' extrfntii^ 'r'^is neither' : a<i|e>iiiUt>V.s : ■»<# • iflgwiontt:'' 1 ," ■ Vv'