The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND Saturday Morning. Tuesday, October 13, 1891.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 671, 13 October 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, October 13, 1891.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God's, and truth’s.

The Wellington Press, which is one of the strongest opponents of the present Ministry, is giving advice which is worthy of being taken notice of by the other side. The Press thinks that the value of discipline and organisation ought to be as well recognised in New Zealand political warfare as it is in real bloody war. “The electoral rolls," says our contemporary, “ should be thoroughly scrutinized, and every man qualified to vote should, if not already enrolled, be enrolled forthwith. Every by-election should be fought in a thoroughly organised and determined manner It is not at all improbable that there may be a dissolution, followed by a general election, before another vear has passed away, for, in the not unlikely event of the Government being defeated next session, it would be impossible, in the present disorganised state of parties to form a stable Ministry to succeed them, and the only way out of the difficulty would be an appeal to the constituencies. Hence, apart from the question of byelections, there is the chance of the great struggle that would rage from the North Cape to the Bluff, and it is well that the electors should get ready for such a contingency. Up to the present time the electors have too often made the fatal mistake of supporting a candidate on some particular ground. He was in favor of Prohibition, or he was an anti-Prohibit>onist; he was. a secularist, or he was a denominationalist; he was in favor of the female franchise, or he was against it. The Press, goes on, as a matter ot course, to derive from this reasoning the moral that all the discipline and activity shown should be with the object of re-instating a Conservative Government. The great influence which property and other wealth can bring to bear was not successful in carrying the general elections, though the trumpetings were ever so loud. The cry then was that there were no party lines in New Zealand, and everyone who said there were was denounced as a humbug. Now Mr Bryce,. the erstwhile Conservative leader, has given out that every honest candidate must range himself on one side or the other, and the cry has been echoed far and wide. Taking this with the Press article the Opposition manoeuvres are made plain. Their belief evidently is that by making all the “ political capital” that is possible out of the mistakes that were made by the Government—no Government can be free from them—there will be a general turmoil, and that by combination during the strife the Conservatives may be able to again grasp the reins of power, and have things to their own satisfaction. Well, the warning has come in time, and the other side may watch proceedings.