THE GREY ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1809, 23 July 1913, Page 6

THE GREY ELECTION.

GREAT BITTERNESS OF FEELING. (From Our Own -Correspondent.) Rcefton, July 22. : Tho great bitterness of feeling which! ; was shown by a section of the MM**'" I of Mr. llanuim when news ot his detent at tho first ballot became known has : been intensified in certain quarters, but it has not spread, to any ex ten I. Ho« far Mr. Michel's chances have been mojudiced by sectarian feeling can only be guessed at, but it must have some cliect- ( U?t the other hand, Hie tactics of, all. Webb's supporters in attempting to blxolC up the meetings of his opponent arc winning widespread sympathy lor 1110 «ovoruinent: candidate. There have been many stubborn and bitter election fights on the Coast, but tho tooling in the Ijrey contest probably surpasses theui all. M-iny old residents hold tli.o opinion that whi.o the result of'the p!>ll on Thursday will probably bo close, Mr. Michel will meet with more support than his opponents imagine. Most of the noise and demonstration comes from the Socialists behind Mr. Webb, and they are the more uggri-s----sive, but they are not anything like so numerous as the rest of tho community, a large part of whom tell 110 one how they are going to vote. Mr. Hannan ivill carry with him his personal following into tho Webb canip, but lie cannot influence the great bulk of those who voted for him. it is quite impossible to fore* tell the final result, except, to say that iv will, in all probability, be a close finish But for the raising of the svcrani|n j=su< Mr. Michel—who was in 110 way respoiu ■sible for this—would almost certainly have won with a lot to spare.