THE ELECTIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16870, 27 October 1925, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS.

(To the Editor oi tho Herald.) Sir, —My warning about one man using so many horn de plumes does not seem to have had much effect on your correspondent. It is Planchet for a change now. I should have thought that the castigation he got would have made him pull up a bit, but no, like Tennyson’s brook, he runs on for ever. I should think even Mr Smith must be tired of his vituperation by this time, but-T sup-, poso we will have to put up with it until election day.—l am, etc., GOVERNMENT SUPPORTER.

(To the Editor of Ibo Herald.l Sir, —Up to the present I have not inflicted myself upon the inky way o.f political fortVrih tillers or advocates. Perhaps the reasori for this is'apparent-. My only reason for so doing now is to correct a- few misstatements appearing in Reform's ‘"‘Big Bertha,” which of course is old ammunition kept dry from previous elections to hurl at any opposing those who standi back of International Cohen and C’o. Most, of your political fortune-tellers need no apology, neither perhaps would your leading articles were they not from such a reputable organ. Coming as they do, they are really funny to those who think. Those who db not may be just as unmoved on November 4. Ohe article you head “Mr Holland rushes -to the scene.” Now we know no one .is sinking, only perhaps the status of Reform. It is certainly not Mr Coleman, for his prestige along With his party is growing daily, as people read and understand for themselves the policy and platform of the Labor party and get. a clearer conception of Reform’s deception. To- - day people do- not require columns of letters and leading articles to direct them how to vote. Their common need directs them, and they know where that need lies. People are intellectual enough to cast an intelligent vote. To-day is our day of intellectuality, and the sound of your political thunder is heard but dimly in the distance. Even your barrage" of political dope held out to Mr Smith falls to-day on muffled ears. Labor’s intellectual growth lies along the lines of social service for human freedom and not- by extreme and insane, vituperation, as used by the other aide. Mr Lysnar, duly supported bv yourself in all his fu.nniosities. apparently can find no better argument to support a dying cause than descending to abuse, but to-day the tattered mantle of prejudice has fallen and abuse leads only backward over tho pathway of political decay.—l am, etc., 1 • J. PERRY.

(To tho Editor of tho Herald.) Cir, —You tell us daily to vote for Mr Lysnar and Reform if they want Mi <Mates. The people want Mr Coates and will have him. They do not want the Reform—least of all Mr Lysnar—nor does Mr Lysnar consign Reform to the devil with Mr Nos Worthy. It is futile to expect people to allow such a state of things as to allow one man hold sway over this district until he. chooses to abdicate, and no newspaper dictation will bring it about. Let me give expression to the impression Mr Lysnar made on me. It seems to me by’voting Lysnar we are wedging a pivot under the Government's plank to rock it in resppnse to the swing of his baton ;ind sway to the puts on. ”1 am Lysnar, the all highest. I speak, and all opinion is brought into conformity with my views.” Fancy askino a returned soldier to face his Verbiage without, a gas mask.—l arm etci, RETURNED SOLDIER.