The Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1919. THE CITY SEATS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19810, 29 November 1919, Page 7

The Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1919. THE CITY SEATS.

v£-/v' . ■ .It fs a peculiar fact that as far as the city seats are concerned not a single ■Reform candidate has ( yet made an appliance. Tire sitting members, who nominees of the Labour Party i "What is' reason at the back of the Reform Party’s shyness? The Party organs cultivating the fiction ; Liberals will have to depend ; MV{tji©v‘‘‘ Red 6’’ to obtain office, and : that? Concession s” must be made to extreme Labour if the Liberals are to office after getting there. ;These statements have already been exiposed. as mere; bogies to frighten the ■herVoas elpctprinto giving an antiy vote. There is not the slightest 'danger pf the Liberals beihg subservient : ;tmrthp ‘‘ Reds.’’ It is quite conceivable, that tlie Labour members of the .House, would vqte against Mr Massey ijriai'id ;nb-<rcpndence motion, simply be- , cause they would prefer a Liberal Gov■„Brninent ■to a Tory Government. They w]e\npt. alone in thp possession or that preference, l and the fact that they would put Mr Massey out of office yneed.^ot,,be'Counted against them. ability to drive a bargain with need not be assumed, as two-sides' to make a bargain. I,l r^La^Our. assists.to defeat the Massey ..Dp'yeimment' it, will simply .be because invincible. antipathy to the IjwfomvPartjy, and not because the exgain any concession, from \ South- and East—the ,aro being fought by Labour ;■• nominees, and there is no talk of an iyalMncp.';!;. 11 Interruption party ” tactics hre-being pursued at the meetings of V. which does no credit to |Ke,''iinb<>w ! .Party. The pacifist, sW- > * 'disloyalist and sedition-monger, suddenly develop"Wfi an admiration' for the doctrine of ■'force ! and the suppression of freedom of speech. The Labour candidates are I' not-; faring- to explain them away, or y.toydisavpw sympathy with the peculiar whicli ia ; attaching itself to them, v.ffiho support ’ of the disloyalist, who country in gaol rather than is given to the repfesenta’v|nto of tli© Labour Party, simply because the Labour Party, now in the :Vjpands, of the extremists, has adopted :: y«^its ; slogan, “ Our own country lost, pr wrong.” The Labour Party, ; midst of /the. deadliest struggle 1 '“■Ui-whiph the Empire was ever engaged, -wascontent to proclaim its “dignified! ,y,neutrality,’’ and the very man who ■-borrowed President Wilson’s phrase and : ~ippliqd it tof New Zealand Labour is .asking patriotic ©lectors to return him ■ 'for Christchurch East. W© hope that : the will remember, when it heare mbour candidates on the sub..lflyalty and .assistance to returned soWiereTriC motto dur ‘ ;. ■%, wpr—VV oo patriotic as/risWn^w for and was redeveloped a wonderful in.irest in the returned soldier—they can- ■ i not promise enough for him. During war, however, they neither pro"jyposcd nor accomplished anything which y l'wai not designed to embarrass the ,■ in performing the Domin- ’ ion’s flhar.e of the'Empire’s war effort. 1 y These. we: submit, are not the men who , ~ should’represent .Christchurch ii- the !■.■!' Pariiament of the country. 1