QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 7

QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

—__$ ' PHILP PARTY. by TEi.Eor.Arn— poess asboci.vtiox— copyright. . ' Brisbane; December 5. : The Pliilp Government iritonds to coniies l practically cvsry scat at the general cleo tions. . i -. i i ■j - c ' \ The only recent development Rearing on tl« relations of ex-Premier ■ Kidston' and tl« Labour purty is the tatter's manifesto, ivlncli was a declaration of independence. : The Bus bane correspondent of the '"Sydney Mormnj irornlcl" professes, • however. to : btiable Jo reac! betwoen the lines of the manifesto; as follows :- "Tho Labour manifesto is full of protestationi of independence, and declarations that tin party will remain free of all hampering com pacts; but it is not hard to read between th< lines nnd gather therefrom that it is intenda to fight tho electioiiß side, by side with Mr Kidston. Such was the :general. Tcrdici when the manifesto was--* published. At any understauding-qfj-tho Wnq'tast mean, t Ricrifico of independence^omewliero,-it is ap parent that- Mr. Kidston >has- taken-.-his placi once more llilw. another : Caractaeus-, bound h tho chariot'whoels.of Labonr. After ; ithis, Mr Kidston miijht'jlifit tts;.well- sign the objectivl again said-n prominoht citir.en,' whenspoker to on tho subject. . .-■'. It is a hoteworthj fact that the manifesto'is absolutely silent oi the question of theererlappins of candidates leaving the ' impression that an arrangement has been como to between Mr. Kidston and th< Labour pfcrtv, which the Ijabo\ir party an desirous shall not. be known to its supporters This omission is freely commented on in tlu city, and the penoral opinion is that tlic boasted independence of the Labour party u but a clumsy attrmpt to fool the people. ■