“ It is difficult to conceive what else but "the strongest condemnation" such conduct merits, unless it be the condign punishment of the offenders at the ballot box. If such outrages upon honesty and justice can be tolerated, then may the most abandoned of mortals be trusted with the reins of power. The people henceforth, will be at the mercy of the most reckless and audacious schemers unless this shocking insult in and violation of their sovereignty be by them resented in no unmistakable manner at the coming elections. ”

“ He could conceive no fair-minded man who, reviewing the conduct of Ministers in this matter, could form any but the one conclusion, that they had been guilty of conduct which merited the strongest condemnation at the hands of every man or woman who respected the Parliamentary institutions or possessed one vestige of reverence for the abstract rules of honesty and justice. ”

“ So he is standing as an opponent of the Government. We call the extracts that follow from his speech because they are the impressions of an able politician who is not one of the Labor party. They have the weight which attaches to utterances of a man who has been "behind the scenes." The very same things have been said by members of the Parliamentary Labor party, perhaps, not in varse so well, but to the same outcome. But what a Labor member says is almost invariably ignored by the biased and bigoted "Liberal" press, so-called. Mr Keenan, is, therefore, an independent witness. ”