MISS MULCAHY'S FIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1767, 4 June 1913, Page 6

MISS MULCAHY'S FIGHT.

STRENUOUS ELECTIONEERING.

One of tho most interesting phases oi tho Federal election campaign lias been tho struggle .in tlio Melbonrno division, where a lady, Miss Mulcahy, is.contesting the seat with a Labour candidal?'. Miss Mulcahy has had some of the most crowded meetings of any candidate ill the metropolitan area. • And not only has she been working with phenomenal energy, but she lias displayed unusually fine platform powers, while her ability to score points oft' tho opponents who go round to her meetings to' prevent her from biing heard lias been one of tho features of* Hie election. Miss Mulcahy's speeches, (according to tha Melbourne correspondent-of tho Sydney "Telegraph") stand in' sinking contrast to thoso of the other cautiKlate, Dr. Moloney, wlio has acquired a reputation for wisdom -by making himself extremely difficult to Uiwlcrstnml, Tho women's meetings and the experiences of Miss Mulcahy us a candidate ill opposition to tho Labour party have indicated pretty clearly that if the .sex takes to tlio platform 111 \ iclam it «»' have to submit to indignities quite as bad as any of those leaped 011 ninlos. U w curious to iind mobs of bawling mci and shrieking women, rushing ings to howl at a woman 011 the platfmMavl»e, adds the "Telegraph," it is to be accepted as a part of the ig "<• tactics of the Caucus. J 0'? * s"mo mcMiod in it in connection «llili Miss Mu - cahv's meetings, because she is » olwon«ly tho intellectual superior of the L.i 10 v 'candidate that the party:ippnronly does not want tier (o be heard at aIL Miss Mule"hv made sutlieient progress 111 tho to frighten tho Caucus audits nominee.