THE APOTHEOSIS OF PERSIFLAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5498, 30 November 1896, Page 3

THE APOTHEOSIS OF PERSIFLAGE.

- [to the editor.] Sib,—After being six years under the constant incense of Liberal-toadyism, tho wonder should rather be that Mr A. W. Hogg possesses as much moral respect for his political opponent as he really does. The" make way "of Mastcrton toady-liberals before Mr Hogg on every occasion, and the energy in which they" push aside" all who differ politically with them, and bow their heads and bend their knees to him, is remarkable. Towards him their countenances arc bent, like flowers to the sun (whether speaking to him or drinking with him), and their whole deportment is erpressiye of abject worship, Tho defereuco paid to his remarks, the ready applause and laughter in attendance upon his faintest attempts at wit, the eagerness to cringe and crawl, to serve and gratify him, are what may be described as the true character of a toady or Seddon-Liberal. They would, it time allowed, devote themselves entirely to the worship of Mr Hogg—tho phonograph of Scddon. Their passion takes perhaps its most striking form when they applaud him for insulting, sneering at, ana jeering at his political opponent. It is the apotheosis of persiflage.—l am, etc., A Steanoeii.