POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 74, 10 November 1911, Page 5

POLITICS.

T"0o the Editor “Stratford Post.”) 'yiair,—Being a newopmer- ;to Stratford, and hearing'a great deapkfrom the (so called) reform partyTiGout the eloquence of Mr J. B. Hina, M.P>,. and ilso about the platform of the Ojppdjjition, I, with a few of my friends, Attended his meeting held in tne t Town Hall. Now, from , what s lv of Mr Hino, ; I came to the conclusion that he, with the help of his party, were the only ones'-that -could sdve this unfortunate country that fer tile last twenty years had been m the grip of the representatives of the people, the much abused Liberals, but; • sir, the scales soon fell from my eyes, : for Mr Mine had not proceeded far yith, his address when I was foryvl .to admit to myself that as a politician he was not the man be was cracked up to be by his friends, for a more weak, unstatesmanlike address 1 nbvor heard from the mouth of a man soliciting the suffrages of an enlightened community, his address'being, from star T to uiiisn more h-ss an abuse of the party in power, nothing constructive, instructivenothing now, but tne same old, tale of tammany and corruption. In speak-r ing of tiie Mine charges, he says that if the opposition ever have an.opportunity of getting a peep into the pigeon holes of the Cabinet, what a tale could be told. I have no doubt that when Mr Mine and his party do get a peep into these recesses of mystery, they will, as on a former occasion, electrify the country. Mr Hine and his party condemn the Supremo Court judges as being tools of the Government, hut they must have forriied a far different opinion prior to the Hino charges, for if I remember right, and the records of the House are true, the Supreme Court: judges were the only men capable pfe-givirig an unbiassed opinion on the , charges. The Opposition said, we want an utibia ssccl commission to look into these things, and the Government • having nothing to hide (but courting ah, enquiry) were prepared to grant, their request, the charges were submitted to their honors, who summed them up in one act, and said, they, the charges, were mere piffle, or words to that effect. Now, here is the point. Ever since those unbiassed judges gave that opinion, the Opposition have never lost an opportunity of condemning them; in seasoiu and out of season. Why not he fair? If the Supreme Court judges had given an opinion in favour of the Opposition, nothing would have been said against them, but as they acted in an unbiassed manner, nothing was had enough for them in the eyes of the “Great Reform Party.” I sincerely trust that when next I hear Mr Hine, ho will give us politics, and enlighten his constituents as to what he has done what he intends to do, and what measures he and his party will erase from the Statute Book, that the “Great Liberal Party,” the peoples’ real friends have brought in during their long and prosperous reign.—I mi, etc., DISGUSTED. Stratford, November 9, 1911.