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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a

A Good Record

A Good Record.

He and his colleagues, looking at the criticism carried over a period of nearly fourteen years—including twelve years of Premiership—should feel fattered, and feel proud of such a record, when so little could be said against them. (Applause). And what had been said adversely had been said against their methods, but as far as the policy was concerned which the Government inaugurated, and which had been carried out, in respect especially of legislation which had been placed upon the statute book of this colony, it was a bright moment in his life that he was able to stand there and say, looking at the speeches delivered in all parts of the colony, that he found not a single voice urging the repeal of a single measure that his Government had passed. (Cheers). He was delighted to know—and this from the representations of their doponente—that our country was proaperous, that our people were happy; and he had been proud to hear from the leader of the Opposition that there were some good Liberals in the Opposition ranks. The leader of the Opposition prided himself upon that fact; perhaps he thought that some time or other a little leaven would leaven the whole, and bring them back to the true Liberals of this country—the present Government and those who supported them. (Cheers).