The Lyttelton Times is a staunch supporter of an Elective Executive, but it realises that there is danger in the paltering and hypocrisy of those tflio pretend that they are Lioordts Arid prat© about their independence. Referring to Mr T; E. Taylor’s candidature for Chris# church, the Lyttelton Tioles > siya i—“ The leadership practically represents, riiider 6nr present defective .system, fclio policy of the party, ana is the orily test ihatllio elec tors can apply to candidates for their suffrage. It is for this reason that wo find such inde pendent Liberals as Mr W. H. Montgomery aud Mr G. W. Russell, and, in qualified lan guage, even Mr Alfred .’Saunters, declaring in favour of Mr Scddon. Suroly Mr Taylor is presuming rather too much when he asks to bo sent to Wellington with greater freedom than is accorded to the venerable member for Selwyn. if he wishes to obtain any con siderable measure of support from the great body of Liberals outside the organisation with which ho is specially associated, ho must give some tangible pledge that ho will be found fighting side by side with the party of progress and resisting every attempt to cur tail the rights and liberties of the people. This is the least that can bo expected from an untried man who aspires to represent a Radical constituency in the Parliament of the country.”

“And it was throughout a class speech, with, as it were, 4 the bread-and-butter problem ‘ for a text, as though there were no other interests in tbe country other than those of the manual workers that required protection.” Thus our evening contemporary yesterday on Mr Hutcheson’s speech. This from a journal which has helped to raise more bitter class hatred than any other paper in New Zealand ; a journal that has endeavoured to uphold the rights of property as against the rights of manhood ; which has sneered at the Democracy and taunted every man who has espoused the cause of tbe people with the cruellest words that could bo strung together in the columns of a news paper. But its own bitter class tactics apart, who will say that the -evening journal was fair or honest in referring as it did to Mr Hutchoson’a remarks as to the reforms yet duo to the toilers of the Colony. 