THE LIBERAL PARTY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 June 1924, Page 9

THE LIBERAL PARTY.

ALLEGED REVOLT AGAINST WILEORDISM. AIR ROLLESTON DRAGGED IN. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 27. With refeience to a recent statement published in the “'Southland News” regarding the leaders ol puli- | tical forces, tho" leader of the Liberal’ Party (Mr T. AL Wilford, M.P.) says: The “Southland News,” which has j just caused a sensation by an article against myself and Sir Joseph Want, | opened by demolishing the Prime j Minister. Previous to the article . against myself, it metaphorically . wiped him off the political map; anu then, having disposed ol him, j started to try to settle me as leader, , in order to clear the decks for a new party. The man they propose to lead the new party in New Zealand, which is at present not in existence, ! and lias no being, is Mr E. J. I Rolleston, the Reform Member for . Tim am. . ' Mr 'Wilford says his party is solid, and as happv a family as ever worked in political fife. All are accounted for . and are staunch and true. ; In the course oi the article alluded 1 to by Air Wilford, die “Southland News” says:— , . .. „ “The force 10 be loosed m New Zealand in the course of a lew weeks will, we hope, operate under the direction of a man who has demonstrated Ins sincerity, and Ids ability to rule’ m im: most convincing manner, and it is probable that he would capture the , popular imagination at the Jirst assault. There is a demand tor new . control, and Liberalism c-annot afford i to weaken ts cause by keeping a pilot who has already revealed that he does not know the soundings or the human heart and is a navigator who may at any time lead his crew into difficultties.” „ . . ~ Oil the above Press Association message being brought under his Sici Mr F. J. Poiyt™ Ml*. or Timaru. expressed astonishment. Im said that the message was without lb' slightest foundation ni fact, and the telegram which had been sent from Wellington, apparently as (be result nt something winch Air Milford. MI had said, was the first he find hcaid of the matter. j