The Member for the Suburbs Interviewed.
$ —_ Sydney, April 15. Mr Charles Wilson, M.H.E. for Wellington Suburbs, is on a visit to Sydney, and in an interview with a local pressman, after declaring that he was a strong supporter of the Government, said he was firmly of opinion that the Ministry must be reconstructed. It had, he said, a very strong head, but a very weak tail. Mr Wilson described two members of the Cabinet at least as having such lamentably and notoriously weak mental and political fibre that their political gyrations reudered them a laughing stock to the rank and file of the party, whose support on a division they obtain, but whose personal esteem they fail to possess. The commercial community now possessed, he said, a confidence in Mr Seddo'n which it did not at one time have. It now recognised that, though Mr Seddon was a Democrat, he was extremely cautious as to such branches of this policy as affected the commercial world. In other words, he was not quite the ultra-Radical he used to be,
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XVII, Issue 2947, 19 April 1899, Page 2
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178The Member for the Suburbs Interviewed. Woodville Examiner, Volume XVII, Issue 2947, 19 April 1899, Page 2
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