DEMOCRATPARTY

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 275, 26 November 1935, Page 2

DEMOCRATPARTY

Leader’s Final Appeal / 111 1 NEW POLICY —OLD PRINCIPLES “HAS A DEFINITE CHANCE” (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Mr. T. C. A. Hislop’s final mes'sagb to the electors says: “We are a ' new party with a new policy but old principles. The National Party is an old party with no policy and no principles. It is a—vital difference between alert and vigorous youth and creaking, worn-out. age. “The Democrat Party is on the up| move, and it has a definite chance. * The people will not waste their votes on a Government which it is admitted on all sides, as being on the down grade. They will vote for the Democrat Party. “Never was the issue more clear: whether the people are going to throw away their votes by supporting a decrepit and discredited Government, or whether they are going to .support the only party that stands for true freedom and democracy—• the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party will win more seats than either of the other two Socialist parties, and will unquestionably be the Government. No one in theii' right senses will say that the present Government will win enough seats to obtain a majority. “I would draw the attention of the people of New Zealand, however, to the very dangerous position that the Government is endeavouring to force upon them. With a full knowledge that the Democrat Party presents a safe and sane policy, and the personnel of which is superior to -its own, the Government and its papers deliberately state that the only alternative to themselves is Labour. The Government, therefore, is deliberately trying to throw New Zealand into the hands of the Labour Party with this action, and by the refusal of the Government to introduce a preferential voting Bill, the National Party will be directly responsible if the Labour Party is successful in attaining the Treasury benches, and I publicly charge them with this. Its own party interests have counted more with the National Party than the interests of the people of New Zealand.”

“Our policy is the only sound policy, through the application of which there is some prospect of real recovery in the future. It is the most comprehensive and detailed policy that has ever been put before the electors. Our opponents have attempted to ridicule our proposals, and they have stated on all sides that it can’t be done. My reply to them is that ‘lt can’t be done’ has been the cry of the defeated through the ages. We must hold our heads up and go forward boldly and ously, determined that it must be done.”