MAN OR PARTY ?
SIR,—May I suggest that the reason no one has troubled to query Janus's assertion in connection with Mr. T. L. Horabin and the North Cornwall seat is simply that Janus's views on this matter happen to be generally held ; certainly in this -part of the country. Mr. Kenneth Gren- ville Myer's endeavour to justify Mr. Horabin's present action seems to have deteriorated into a. hotchpotch of wild generalisations and muddled thinking. It is true that the average elector does. not register his vote specifically for " a policy, party or en issue" only, inasmuch as these details are not embodied id the ballot paper ; so, instead, he votes for the man put forward by the party whose policies he wishes to see furthered in Parliament, and it is, presumably, these elected representa- tives of the several political parties who provide the discussions and decisions to which Mr. Myer refers. ,If all of us voters elected our representatives with the same woolly indiscrimination as Mr. Myer apparently exercises, it would not be long, I fear, before we reached that very state of affairs he is so anxious to avoid. No one would question Mi. Horabin's right to change his views ; it is just unfortunate that his conversion came about in the middle of the present Parliament instead of before the General. Election, and it is doubly unfortunate for the North Cornwall electors that, Mr. Horabin's conscience appar- ently sleeping, they must continue to be represented by him for another two and a half years in his new party cloak without any redress.—Yours
faithfully, M. PARNELL. Avondale, Pensilva, Liskeard, Cornwall.
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