NOT POLITICS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17736, 9 December 1919, Page 4

NOT POLITICS.

While his opponents are facing the contest in a sportsmanlike spirit, Mr. Veitch is apparently ploughing his lonely furrow in anything but a happy frame of mind. At Gonville last evening he was in pitiful mood, and his speech was a mixture of doleful pleading and petulant complaining. We are sorry for Mr. Veitch, we regret very much indeed that he should be so distressed by the criticisms to which he has been fairly and properly subjected. Much of that criticism has been necessitated by the injudicious tactics of his friends and champions; but It has all been studiously fair and absolutely truthful. It is, of course, the truth that hurts, and that perhaps accounts for the angry tirade which he launched against the "Chronicle" at Gonville last evening. If Mr. Veitch had not permitted his temper to over-ride his judgment he would never have given expression to the foolish and inaccurate statements which we are able to report this morning, nor would he have so far forgotten himself as to give way, as he did, to an outburst of personal abuse. That sort of thing is not argument, and it is certainly foreign to the kind of politics for which the electors are looking.