THE POLITICAL HORIZON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7568, 28 November 1902, Page 2

THE POLITICAL HORIZON.

Another of the lessons taught by Tuesday's election is the necessity for a reconstruction of the Cabinet. The need for reconstruction, has been preached in the newspapers with unceasing regularity for the greater part of the last three years, and now the electors have given point to the sermon. There is no mistaking the attitude of the electors. It . may not be absolutely unanimous, but it is sufficiently consentient to indicate that a very large proportion of them are not content Avith the present order of things. We attach no importance to the return, of a few Conservatives. What we base our belief on is the mimber of new members who are pledged to progress. It is evident to our mind that the electors are bent on further progress, and that a very large number of them, at any rate, are determined, that the Government shall move onward at a faster pace than it has been moving of late. If these are the signs of the times, <&nd Mr Seddon reads them as the newspaper press of the colony has read them ihe Avill not ignore them. He is bound to interpret them as the wishes of a. large- section of the electors, and having done so he will ihave to make up his mind whether it is worth while giving effect to those wishes or setting himself in opposition to them. We cannot believe that he will oppose them. Nobody is quicker a,t putting his finger on the pulse of the people than the Premier, and no doubt She has already arrived at the conclusion that the return of a large progressive section to the new Parliament may preface a demand for important political changes at no distant date. Doubtless, too. he realises that the long delayed reconstruction of the Cabinet will be one of the earliest of these demamds.