POLITICAL STRATEGY 



George proceeded to say, " to rouse public opinion. 

 I may know nothing about military strategy, but 

 I do know something of political strategy. To get 

 public opinion interested in a proposal and to 

 convince the public of the desirability of it is an 

 essential part of political strategy. That is why 

 I did it. And it has done it." The Premier has 

 exactly described what was in my mind when I 

 started on my campaign, and after so eminent an 

 endorsement of the policy I pursued I can have no 

 hesitation in commending its adoption to any- 

 one who may be in a similar position to that in 

 which I then found myself, whilst no one could 

 desire a better-sounding definition of a means 

 to an end than Mr. Lloyd George has supplied. 

 In my o>wn case, as well as in that of the latter-day 

 apostle of the creed, the objective aimed at was 

 fully attained, and, as nothing succeeds like 

 success, this in itself supplies the only other justi- 

 fication required for " political strategy." 



Having baited the fishing-ground, other likely 

 means for inducing our fish to rise were thought 

 of. We looked into our internal economy, and, 

 with other modifications of procedure, remodelled 

 the constitution of the committee, making it more 

 representative of the whole county, and, instead 

 of having a permanent president, agreed to elect 

 a different one annually, selected from the district 

 in which the show for that year was to be held. 



Every county man of good standing was asked 

 to become a vice-president, which would render 

 him eligible for the office of president of the 

 Society. The arguments backing this up were 

 sufficiently conclusive to secure a large body of 



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