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MR. HAWTHORNTHWAITE.The member lor Nanaimo is evidently very sore with the Liberal party lor the attacks it has made upon him and Mr. Parker, for their adherence to the McBride ministry He points out that he owes alle giance to none but his own party. That is true enough and Mr. Haw-thornthwaite is responsible to his electors and to the province at large for his conduct under such circumstances. But Mr. Hawthorn-thwaite goes a step further and charges the Liberal party with having done little for labor. Presumably the Nanaimo man said this in defence of his refusal to make common cause with the Liberals. Why should he so any more than with the Conservatives? If the Liberal party could claim and substantiate such a claim, that they were indeed the friends of labor, Mr. Hawthornthwaite would occupy an illogical position,no matter how the interests of his party demanded his present adherence to Premier McBride. But this is just what the Liberal party cannot do. They can, it is true, point to certain acts having been furthered by them, to certain planks of their platforms and to certain promises. But in this they are no better off than are the Conservatives who can make just such a similar assertion or assertions. Could the Liberals show, for example, that they had invited men of the stamp of Mr. Hawthornthwaite into their councils when making a nomination, the matter would have a different face But this is what they cannot do any more than can their rivals in power. Therefore there is no just ground for attacking the member for Nanaimo. He is acting on his own ideas. If they do not succeed, and it can be shown that some alternative course, easily foreseen, would have done so, Mr. Hawthorthwai e will stand condemned of his own people. But it is for them to condemn him first. After that nobody else need trouble themselves in the matter.
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Rossland Evening World
Rossland, British Columbia, CA
Thu, Jan 28, 1904
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