POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

Waikato Argus, Volume XIX, Issue 3029, 10 November 1905, Page 2

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

Till', WAIKATO SEAT

MR )■'. W. LA NO AT MATANGI

On Wednesday overling Mr F. W. Lang, M.H.R., addressed this (doctors in ,tho Matangi Mall, but owing to Ibo unfavourable slato of the weather the audience was not a largo one. Mr A. Furze presided. Mr Lang spoke for upwards of an hour, and was frequently applauded during the course of his remarks. A number of cpiestions were asked and satisfactorily answered, and Mr Lang was accorded a unanimous vote of thilnks and confidence.

The Premier will address a meeting this evening in the Town Hall, Hamilton. Mr Greenslado will not address the electors of Te Awamutu this evening, on account of the Premier’s visit to Hamilton.

Mr P. W. Lang, will address the electors in the Te Kowhai schoolhouse this afternoon at 2.80 p.m,, and in the evening will speak in the Public Halt at Ngaruawahia at 8 p.m. Tomorrow evening he will meet the electors of Whatawhata in Iwersen’s Hall at 8 o’clock.

Great interest is being taken at Te Kowhai in the general election (writes our correspondent), and our local politicians are coming out in force for their respective candidates. Neither Mr Lang nor Mr Greenslade have paid us a visit so far but there is no doubt they will get a fair hearing when they do come. MR MASSEY’S SPEECH. It is not with the speech (writes Christchurch Truth) but with the methods of the Seddonite machine that we wish to deal. It is quite evident that Tammanyism has developed enormously in New Zealand in the past three years. Since the last election the machine has been enlarged, and now there is au agent in every little centre in the colony. Attempts are made to break up the meeting's of the other side, not by the electors but by the paid hooligans of the party “ Boss.” Votes are being bought by an extensive system of bribery', but, uulike the American system, not with the party funds .but with the moneys extorted from the taxpayers of the colony. Literature is being circulated for the information of the constituencies which is published at the State printing offices, and which is absolutely and entirely false from beginning to end, with the object of deceiving the electors. A party journal is published which is subsidised by expensive State advertisements; a•* list ” is got out in the namo of the Prime Minister himself demanding subscriptions from prominent people, who if they decline to pay are immediately black-listed and boycotted, and the colony’s money is expended in hundreds of thousands of pounds to keep this great Tammany organisation in power. The attempt to destroy Mr Massey’s meeting is merely part of the general scheme. We are informed that this party of paid Government interrupters will follow him round the district and adopt similar tactics at every one of his meetings. But in spito of this the Loader of the Opposition intends to speak in the other centres of the colony. He will come south in the course of the next few days, and we shall have the pleasure of hearing him in this city before election day. Tammany has had a long reign in New Zealand, but the hour and the man have arrived to clip its claws.