BRITISH POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 766, 15 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE LABOUR PARTY. SPEECH BY MR. KEIR HARDIE. THE MTD-GLAJIORGAN CONTEST. By Teleera.j>h— Press Association—Copyright (Eeo. March 14, 9JJS p.m.) London, March 14. Mr. Keir Hardie, speaking at Swansea, said some arrangement might be possible allowing the Government to drag out a tolerated existence beyond June, but tho Labour party must not in the meanwhile bo content to simply act as props to the Government, and they must be careful lest thoy should be buried in its ruins. He added, in reference to the threatened contest for mid-Glamorgan, wliere Air. Hartshorn, a Socialist, is in the fiold, that rather than hold 6eats by the grace of Liberals or Tories he preferred that Labour should bo • .without | them, until they won them in their own strength. . RE-ELECTED UNIONIST. A GRACEFUL ACT. London, March 13. Mr. Rufus Isaacs, K.C., who had to seek re-election, for the Beading seat, consequent on his appointment to the Solicitor-Generalship, vice Sir Samuel Evans, elevated to the High Court Bench, was re-elected unopposed. Mr. Isaacs' publicly thanked the Conservative Association for its graceful act iu refraining from putting up a candidate against him. , ■ His return was . not a political triumph; it was a ' striking example of. friendship between the different political parties in Heading.