Public opinion demands that there should be some retribution from someone for the state of affairs which forees the people to retain in their midst disturbing elements for whom they have neither sympathy nor love. It may be that Tumour is somewhere near the mark. The great explosion of the bomb came when the succeeding Attorney-General was announced t3 be an almost untried man, who entered Parliamentary life some three years ago, Mr. Latham the member for the ' Victorian electorate of, Kooyong. Many think that if a man of Sir Littleton Groom's 25 years experience can be guilty of an oversight, what may one expect from a man, though he is a King's Councillor, who has had only) three years, be likely to do. It is not as if the retiring Minister has not been tried previously and found able. He was Attorney General as far back as 1906, and has held from Prime Minister expressed many well worded regrets at the loss of s0 old and experienced a man as Sir Little-ton, at the same time as he announced the successor to be in experience of politi and only for the first in sympathy with National this election. A man moreover who the previous election was not at all friendly in his speeches to either the Nationalists nor their platform.
The claims of Mr. Maxwell, our foremost barrister, who has for years had the honour of being the prom-orient criminal attorney at the Bar, should be quite as great' on the score of Law, nor for that matter! could the late ex-Prime Minister Mr. W. M. Hughes be called incapable. On the score of loyal support, and self sacrifice to party, terest no man could rank higher than Mr. Maxwell, who though handicapped by impaired sight retains for his party the industrial seat of Prahran which had previously. been represented by Labour. His sight gets for him no sympathy vote from among these hard-working souls who are too busy fighting for their numerous children always, fon the increase to spare s{mpathy for others. Again Mr. Maxwell maintains his position high in his profession too capably for it to dawn on anyone that he would need a sympathy vote. It is hard we and consistent work only which enables him to keep the electorate together. However it would seem, his claims of nearly ten years loyalty are not sufficiently strong.
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