CONSERVATIVE COERCION.
. Discussing the proceedings at the Premier's recent meeting at Hastings, the Napier News says : — " It was manifest that many who would have voted" for the motion of thanks and confidence considered it Avise not to show their hand. One 6r two prominent sheep-farmers -stood upin 'the body of the hall and turned from side to side to note the voting, and it was not to be expected that the men who were there— and who are under the thumb of the squatters — would vote for a motion of confidence in the man whom the employers hate with a deadly hatred. One of the men who thus stood up and noted who they were who held up their hands was a gentleman who has been busy for some time past incollecting money towards the "fighting fund" of the National Conservative Association in view of the approaching elections. The labourers who were present on Friday knew their jinen, and they very properly refused to give a handle to their enemies. It is a lamentable thought that men should be dragooned, and it is a wise policy on their part to bear patiently with a state of matters that will cute itself. 'It is at the ballot-box where these men. who were watched in a public meeting will be able to pay back the cowardly act with an unseen stroke of the pencil." , ;"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5582, 4 June 1896, Page 4
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232CONSERVATIVE COERCION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5582, 4 June 1896, Page 4
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