The Timaru Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1908. AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13715, 3 October 1908, Page 4

The Timaru Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1908. AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.

A* long ;:i> Mr T. K. Taylor ptcf.-rs U> > cumin ;i political fnvluiiLt, and as as he <an jivrsuade. u constituency lo send him to I'mHuncut mi lii« own terms, he is. of course, fully entitled to piir.-ik' l>i<lit : c«' in hi-' "«ii way. Wc are con vinced, howt-vcr, lliat no political system rotildever lit- carried on along tin- linos indicated Ijv Mr Taylor in lit;- interview of which \vc publish .1 l-pott in ihw i>stn\ Mr Taylor know.; I hat himself, and has. in his tine, tried his hand at (he rallies- diftitisil task of forming and hading a parly. ;>in>t p.oph- will ntueiiibrr the " N. w Liberal i'arly" whii.h, under his £t:i'JaiK-.. and Icadciahip. was strangled at its liirlh three ycai.« aj;o. Wliy in? that party formed ii iiidcpendiiua* of thought and at'ion js so w'litial lo 'honest polifo- ::, Mr Taylor would h.iVi- i:» helivrvc? lis formation was its leader'* tacit admission thai lb- political fii-elaiif'. howev-r biillinu! In- may be pciMinally. < nut .: hop- In make a 'if p impression on the c ■ of politic. It is a pfiy that it i- m: we i-.i'ivt the f:u.t i|ii tv ;•>> much .<>• Mr 'r.iyh'f tan <io. and in- can sympathy e v. itii '<h- i.tcalt-'.ir views he h01.1.s of what poli'.ii- and I ho pi'lititiin- on-lit •■• 1.., lint t.d-iiif; thiliL's as they a!". «<• -P" no <-.'i|*f fi"in I Jif ii; (• :•: ity for i «mpi iibi'i e aiiionj; no niber- in ind'-f t" a-hieve -onu' lie licit- .i1.j..; •:■■ uhii-h th>' n:.ijoi'iy ian i-if<- in. ; I- - piferih. \\V fan. y dial Mr Taylor hints if. in spakiii;; on the -ul.-c.-! "f an rl.vtiv- .iconic,-. h.i.» .idmitlcd :ii.it iVi-n :f I'iiilianit-ii? u-eiv to ,-tc<t lb Mitr, .'ry iwhh-h t" «»r mind <■• a porf-.tfly f. asil.t.- ii'fotm'. sh. te •a.-old -till be patty divr'on- ovrr nil ni'-nibrn- n--"-: m < '■-.- ctily lonlaiii many J ■incc- ..|niiii!ii«. but ;ii ".eu-ial when a| i,,l ■ |,.,. !,. U- t;,'-n on a paitiriib'f !(»'•';"■'. ill io >-: ii ).■<• only two altcina | | iiv , ii-jo.,' tb- ii.ojdi.i-i- It i- not "f!.-n I ■ I.Tjiii \V..:.i. 1.-..! .11 hi-- poll I 11.-.1 l '.!!.'■; ~ -id. ,<;■■' Oil til'- '...-.Jioll j „f :h- ,„<■,,(-, fir-J- 0..r.iv.-1-...v «f hi- ... j !,....,.- „(.' 1'..i1|..i...-:.t. ih-> l'i-i - made j -oin- -iMiia:!. .tboMt i'«- in-irpns'i-n* !"'■'» j I,M" .."1.1. h f. >:•• :- <mb-«iy «h- j ..,-'i..m ..' .■*.,->. ii.- ' I 1.-b-x- «-<-n | -,..„„., la,- .I-.-." b ',-,. "My-! l--ii.-ii.-f b..- ,i...«i, u,' ."- i! ha-> .-howtij .v.iy o-.hfr in an "bo li.!> MLcrrlfl ill! -?<t!::V I" a !m'!:j; pr.->iol! 'liit a Ulan | ~: At; :i:rjrj- si !-. :i t i- ~.' little u ie |

to himself or to his country. Singlehanded he can do nothing/ He is like the soldier who eets out alone to do th* fighting which can only bo effectively biought to an fcsue by a disciplined army. It does not matter how powerful a ukui may be intellectually, if he remains alone 'Jie is in the position of an Ishniaclitf, and though ho may impress peopb with his speaking and his argunvent. he will have nobody to support him in giving effect to h,Vown views, and in the long run he will d'scove> the fact that, politically, he is a iailmc." As wo have said, this necessity for merging one's' self in a party is not without its evife, bill what man can expect to impote tho whole of his own views upon his fellows? If Mr Taylor, for iiif.'aiHC, by his vehemence and ab'lily, were able to dominate rarliamcnl, a.> Ik e-eeu'i? to think each member should, it would simply mean, that tl»t> rest of the Howe Would becorns the "n.iee" to which he-, referred a little contemptuously yesterday. „•$• agte;> with him in despising the ee*3pie ciew of politicians who allowed venuuent to Uiveaten the libertiesAbf Che' people in the-Second ltallot B : ll,Aut -disagree with his contention tlu»t .sw&h an outrage was the pure- result of, \1» party system. The fault lies with .(he -people who i-ciid to Parliament men; witling to let the ' Government put the** autocratic measures on "the (statute book. Mice will be mice under any syster., and if the people elect mice, they need not expect to find them behaving ,aS men. • '