PARLIAMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13715, 3 October 1908, Page 6

PARLIAMENT.

"MICE OR MEN?" MR T. E. TAYLORS VIEWS. Mr T. E. Taylor, who will be a candidate at--the forthcoming election for one of ihe Chiistchureh aeats in opposition to Mr C. M. Gray, the tilting member, was in Tim'arn yesterday. In eenversat on with a "Herald" importer he was good enough to give his views'on wis or two points of interest. . THE PARTY SYSTEM. In reply to <• question as to his political " colour," Mr Taylor said emphatically that he would be an Independent. Continuing, he said: "Each t : uie 1 have stood-for the House it has been aw an Independent, and 1 would not offer my services in any assembly on any other basis. When I was previously elected the city of Chiistchureh gave me its representation without a single party pledge, and. if 1 go in this time, it will be on the same footing. I would not take a seat in the House unless 1 could do so with my judgment left unfettered. Under the triennial parliaments, tinder which the electois have the right every thud year of approving or disapproving of their lepresemativeii use of the power entrusted to h'm, the party system nas no justification for existence'. 1 have, always held that a man who gives a party pledge is not only Jrequeutiy in an embarassed and undignified position, but that he has not got half the capacity for serving his constituency that he would have it he retained an absolute right to exercise his own judgment." RADICAL CONVICTIONS. Mr Taylor went on to cay that h r s convictions were veiy solidly Radical. " J should no doubt vote very largely with the present Ministry, if elected so long a s they tiling down measures of a progressive character, but 1 should retain exactly that degree, of freedom that I tied to exeicise in previous parliaments. I think we are getting lirst class uUUUn ullanpn ll.mi illr present Ministry,' bin 1 luu inclined to think mat if-i tie people had a ch.iiiceo. expressing an opinion on a. good many questions they, uouiu be in lavotir ol "a much more -progressive legislative policy than the present Ministry has so far seen fit to submit- to parliament." THE CONTEST. Asked concerning hs prospects of election, Mr Taylor said : " AVell 1 expect, to have a good conteist. My friends haye never been so determined prior to an election as they are on this occasion. 1 asked them, before consenting to stand, to thoroughly satisfy themselves tliat there was a sincere desire lor me to agdin contest the seat, and sa-!d that if they ..made that clear to their satisfaction 1 would again try my fortune. • They have not only satisfied themselves by taking these preliminary steps and a requisition to me, but the number oi promises of support which I have received are more generous than 1 have ever had before, prior to an election, andl may say th's also, that I have never mixed up in a fight where the teeling wad more cordial than it is at present." THE FAMOUS SECOND BALLOT. Mr Taylor had a word to say c:oncern ; ing this measitie, and -it was this: "I think the Will is a .mistake; the whole principle of the second ballot is a huge blunder, and the measure will fall to secure the end for which it was designed. It will probably have a lile of about one year when it will be repealed. It will, cultivate the evil of minority representation —the very thing it is desired to avo.d. My conviction is in favour of preferential voting. Mr McNab'e Absolute Majority Bill promised much more satisfactory results than any Second li.illut t.ill tom.t poss blv give.' r 'lnl'. "GAG" CLAUSES. "As to the '(.Jag' clauses of me Bill," Mr Taylor continued, "t am t;lau ro know that they will not now fotm pail of the tneanuie. .-ind the uoo uhiji.ihv clause is also struck out. These deletions make tlw Bill a little le>s objectionable out even with thtisfi clauses out I look upon it as being an altogether unsatisfactory .solution ol the problem. Had the •gag' clause remained :n the' Bill there would not have been wanting, men in this Dominion who would, at the first opportunity, have broken every penal clause in the Act, and tiny would have demonstrated in this practical manner, ihe uui r;ige that would hav c he =n inflicted upon popular right*. There waii no excuse eichei, lo r the attempt thai had been made to slence the Wess. That was ab.finitely without justification, and I iora,ider thai ihe manner in which in.- Liberal Party acquiesced in the -restrictive clauses of" the Second Ballot Bill is an impeachment id the whole party .system ot poln c.-., and goes to ihow tint are a gmm many 'mice' in politics at the present lime", and too few men. ' THE STATE AS MONEY LENDER Asked ior an expression ol opinion con eerning the action of the fioveininent , n the plentiful lack of hasie it i.- d spuvim; in tne matter of advancing U,au, tu 's. t tiers from the advances i„ .seii|.. ra ' |) t . partmem, Mr I\vh.r ~aid h.r din !,<>• think the (Joverumeiii could i, e blamed i„ r Ulls He thought the Government „.,, d'ouw ,li that could b,- done under the ciuuin stances. "'Uiey have done a i>t.ai deal lie taid. '"lhe whole lendeiK-y oi tlie'u advance, to ie t,| eis alw ,„ Vl(<M . lml , fiJ been in the direct on oi k.-ej-.u,... „.e r.„.. of interest within rea«mab. t ,„"„.,. >ltoit age oi money ha; existed *..,. outtl j. v-t- l-naeiu and the Uov.tuu.c,,: lieoirt n.ent. and I don't ihink ,t.a. ,h, '?*-L made upon the,,. ;„ tljis ~„„„....,,„„ *'[ : ". 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