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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 4

have the doubtful pleasure of seeing

elected candidates for whom they have on undisguised political contempt. Spoiled children of (mis) fortune as they are, they will deserve all that is coining to them, if they persist in their unfortunate competition. Mr John Rigg, as the nominee of the S.D.P. for Wellington Hast, is the forlornest of forlorn hopes, while Mr T). McLaren, who doubtless will carry the flag of the U.L.P. on the same field, is a man with a fine political future behind him. Should the triangular contest eventuate, the sitting member, Dr Newman, who does not respond readily to the crack (,:i the party whip, will romp home. Mr A. H. Hindmarsh would have a good chance of defeating the Reform challenger, Mr J. P. Luke, in Wellington South, if there were no vote-splitting on the part of Labour, but the advent of a Red Fed candidate will sensibly assist Mr Luke. Outside Mr Rigg — noted as a very forlorn hope—the S.D.P. have no representatives with any political or civic standing. Still, there are ambitious men in its ranks who, for the sake of having ihe fact on their recurds, are keen to contest an election, j even though they should lose their de- I posits. If the Reformers are wise, j they will encourage this feeling on I every possible occasion. The Liberals i can be left to their own dark thoughts.