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Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 910, 6 June 1896, Page 23

Sir Robert to the Opposition Leader. For the Observer. No. 5. ' Speaking of my Coastal meetings, Most successful though they were, Ward, who spoke directly after, Chaoged the feeling everywhere. 1 Mine, they said, was sentimental Theory, beautiful and good ; Ward's, they say, was facts and figures, Showing how the country stood. 'What I said on Prohibition Obtained rounds of great applause ; Would our victory, then, depended Simply on the Temp'rance cause. ' What I feared the most when speaking, Someone would have thus replied : — " When Premier, you took no action, No Prohibition measures tried." ' I could not very well have told them Ballance would have said, with heat : " Leave such faddish legislation, Or you lose the Premier's seat." 'Yogel would have been against me; Liarnach, Richardson and Toie ; So if they had pressed the question, I'd have landed in a hole. 'Then, with truth, they couJd have stated Inangahua's seat I won ; Against the temperate O'Regan Brewers helped me everyone. ' Brewers thought I would be Premier, And. they knew, in such a case, Not a Prohibition measure On the statutes I would place. ' When the party would not have me, I saw clearly how to act ; Revenge I'd have through Prohibition, And I've had it — that's a fact. ' I made tools of the fanatics, And, as you must plainly see, I have made your entire party In the lobbies follow me. ' Re address to West Coast people, What a " muddler " you must be To send a member such as Duthie To address them after me. ' The contrast would be so apparent, And as bunglinc in the main, Just as though a silly tradesman Used his axe behind his plane. ' As you had to go with Newman, You must well know what I mean, For at Napier you'd to listen To the Doctor and McLean. ' Though a candidate for Napier, McLean must be a verdant youth To say that both your speech and New- . man's Told the people half the truth. ' The Doctor said you'd win in Napier ; At this an elector cried, " What about our Sammy Carnell ?" " Oh, hang Carnell," he replied. ' Elegant as was this diction, The like followed, I have read: — Replying to an interjection, " You shut up," the Doctor said. ' If Carnell again fights Napier, That will help him with the mob ; And you'll then be truly sorry You had Newman on the job. As the session is approaching, I shall write to you no more ; But when walking in the lobby, We can confab as before '

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