APPEAL BY DEMOCRATS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1935, Page 7

APPEAL BY DEMOCRATS

ALERT, VIGOROUS YOUTH ALTERNATIVE FOR ELECTORS. CONFIDENCE OF MR. T. C. A. HISLOP HOPE FOR FUTURE RECOVERY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. “We are a new party with a new policy but old principles,” says Mr. T. C. A. Hislop (Democrat leader) in his final message to the electors. “The Nationalist Party is an old party with no policy and no principles. It is the vital difference between alert and vigorous: youth and creaking, worn-out age. The Democrat Party is on the up move and it has a definite chance. The people will not waste their votes on a Government which is admitted on all sides to be on the down grade. They will vote for the Democrat Party. “Never was the issue more clear —whether the people are going to throw away their votes by supporting a decrepit and discredited Government or whether they are going to support only the party that stands for true freedom and democracy, the Democrat Party. “The Democrat Party will win more seats than either of the other two Socialist parties and will unquestionably be the Government. No one in his right senses will say that the present Government will win sufficient seats to obtain d majority. * “I would draw the attention of the people of New Zealand, however, to the very dangerous position that the Government is endeavouring to force upon them. With full knowledge that the Democrat Party presents a safe and sane policy and a personnel which is superior to its own, the Government and its newspapers deliberately state that the only alternative to themselves is the Labour Party. The Government therefore is deliberately trying to throw New Zealand into the hands of the Labour Party. By this action - and by the refusal of the Government to introduce a Preferential Voting Bill the National Party will be directly responsible if the Labour Party is successful in attaining the Treasury benches, and I publicly charge it with this. Its own party interests have counted more with the National Party than the interests of the people of New Zealand. “IT CAN BE DONE.” “The people have realised that our policy is the only sound policy, through the application of which there is some prospect of real -ecovery in the future. It has the most comprehensive and detailed policy that has ever been put before the electors. Our opponents have attempted to ridicule our proposals, and they have stated on / all sides that it cannot be done. My reply to them is that ‘it can’t be done’ has been the cry of the defeated through the ages. We must hold our heads up and go forward boldly and courageously, determined that it must be done.

“I recognise the tremendous responsibility that reposes in me as leader of a party putting forward a policy which will affect the future destinies of every man,-woman and child in New Zealand. It is a responsibility which I shall not evade, and which I have not evaded. Nothing that political opponents have said has disproved any single one of my statements or my proposals. I have shown to the people of New Zealand the way out; the way back to peace and security. With all my heart, deeply and r—cerely, I believe in our cause and in' the policy which I have put before you. I appeal to the people of New Zealand to believe in our ideals and our policy and to support us in our great task by supporting the candidates of the Democrat Party.”