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MANCHESTER ELECTION MR. CHURCHILL’S CALCULATIONS UPSETn OPPOSITION OF SUFFRAGISTS. United Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, April 20. The Times says that apart from the prospect of tho loss of a hundred votes to Dan Irving, the. Socialist transfer of 500 to Mr. Hicks must rather unset Mr. Churchill’s calculations'. He had great hones of carrying the solid Irish vote. Mr. Hicks, in a speech described the'Miners’ Eight Hours'Bill as a tax on raw material, and the action of the freetradersm supporting it was inconsistent. The suffragists are straining every nerve to defeat Mr. Churchill. SETTLEMENT OF IRISH AFFAIRS INDISPENSIBLE. SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL. United Press Association —Copyright (Received April 21, 10.5 S p.m.) LONDON, April 21. Mr. Churchill, at Manchester, said he was convinced that the national settlement of Irish difficulties was indispensiblo to any harmonious conception of Liberalism. Ho had Mr. Asquith’s concurrence in saying that if Parliament were dissolved the party should claim full authority and a free hand to deal with tho problem of Irish self-government without being restricted to mere measures of devolution like tho abandoned Irish Council Bill.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2171, 22 April 1908, Page 3
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