MR. TURNER AND THE LABOR PARTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3809, 21 April 1913, Page 6

MR. TURNER AND THE LABOR PARTY.

(To tlio Editor.) Sir, —Mr Turner has lost no time in getting into print with reply or alleged reply to my letter, but I notice that he has ignored the main questions contained therein. I will assume that Mr Turner has no answer for them and proceed to deal with him in. connection with his lengthy self-advertisement. Mr Turner has shown us another side of his character. sot only is he a first-class comedy politician, but he appears to be poetical as well. But enough of this. Our friend has outlined his reasons why he left and how he left the Labor Party, and I cannot compliment him on the moral courage he has shown in his manner in doing so. In the first instance, when he finds the once good ship Labor is meeting with tempestuous weather he does not stand on the deck and say “Men, we will stand firm and sink or swim together,” but scuttles like the proverbial rat. Apart from his crying “stinking fish,” as soon as the Party began to strike the hard times he asserts it has, Mr Turner would have kept more respect had he stood up and stated boldly that he would leave the Party if things did not alter. That was not his way, however, and by his own letter he admits that he looked for a hole to crawl out through. If the electors feel that Mr Turner is a fit and proper person to represent them on the Council, they are welcome to .their choice, —Yours, etc., ONE IN THE KNOW.