Election Incidents.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1911, Page 4

Election Incidents.

Newspapers to hand by a recent mail show that on the ' whole tho British people took the elections

very quietly, in fact, that a writer in the Daily Mail expressed his uneasiness at such calmness, ami suggested that it might be a sign of •slackening of the national hbr\ Thore were, however, "one or two ■ % y incidents. Mr Churchill's descent on Lincoln to assist the. Liberal . ;t Ji didate caused a furious outbreak o. feeling. The Homo Sedretary t. i d for -two hours to address an :<*n air meeting, and every time he hgan to speak lie was 'howled dow i and had to leave for London'with out addressing the electors. The Unionist candidate went in danger of his life. Mud and; tomatoes flew about merrily. A tomato narrowly miissed Mr Churchills' face, and, iii keeping with the consistent bad luck of the profession, hit a pressman. "Keep your places." shouted the Minister, "someone' will be. killed." If someone had been, ifc would doubtless hare been tlie un-

fortunate reporter. Mr Churchill, escorted by- policemen, fought his way across .the street to where the Conservative candidate was standing with folded arms, and offered to let him speak from-the samo balcony as himself, but the candidate, annoyed at the Minister's intrusion, looked the other way and said nothing. A better spirit was infused into the Dundee contest, Mr Churchill was to have addressed 5000 of his adherents in the Drill Hall, but the meeting resolved itself into a friendly duel betwoen the two candidates, each speaking in spells of five and ten minutes. Mr Churchill himself asked for fair play for his opponent and got it, and when the meeting was over shook hands with hini? One of the best sayings of the election is to the credit of Mr L. S. Ainery, whose candidature for Bow and Bromley gave rise to the pun, "Amery Christmas." Mr Amery was in Canada, lying disabled by a broken leg, when the election took iplnce, but Wo icaMed; stating that though his le.g was broken, ho was better than his opponent, who had not. a leg to stand on. However, legs or no legs, Ibis opponent won.