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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1923, Page 1

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BRITISH ELECTIONS.

[ Rkutkrs Telegrams.] MR BALDWIN’S CAMPAIGN LONDON. Nov. 27. .Mr Baldwin said he was glad to know that a number of women candidates were standing for their cause. The Government’s energies, if returned, must he devoted to combating unemployment. Therefore, he was reluctant to make promises, for ho never made one unless lie could keep it, but he it greet I that the present, dtserimnating in ago between men and women voters could not he permanent. lie hoped he might be able to revise the Joint Committee of both Houses which had been investigating tic guardianship of iniaiuis, with a view,- to working out an agreed measure. which could be submitted to Parliament regarding pensions for widows. There was no one who did not sympathise, hut no honest man could promise to deal with this question, in view of the present limited revenue. A policy enabling children to pass ii-oiii the elementaly schools to the University had his warmest support. lie declared that ho would have nothing to do with an inflationist policy regarding the tariff. If monopolies resulted, they could deal with them.

NOMINATION DAY. LONDON, Nov. 27. After ths- Sunday truce, the General Election battle recommenced with full fury. Owing to countrywide logs and hard weather, several of Lite candidates narrowly missed nomination, including Major G. Lloyd George who is standing at Pembroke. Mr Braithwa'te, membci for Pontefract. came ashore from the Scythia In a special tender and caught an 8.‘2.7 train to Leeds. There he jumped iulo a waiting motor car, and' reached the nomination room on (he ninth strokt of 12. The women candidates' number 111. the Conservatives having seven, the Liberals 12, and Labour 12, while there is one Independent, one Coonerator. and one Communist.

The recently-elected Trey, Mrs Hilton Phillip.soii, i- the on!' woman who is opposed by another woman. Though he was duly nominated. Air Arthur Stanley, the son of Lord .Sheffield, is confined to hi.- it title at Alderly Parks, with mumps, and he "ill he unable to speak during Hie election. The nominations disclosed (lie linalI'ombatiint.s and the number of three cornered contests. There is much speculation as to what will oceur if Mr Baldwin hits not it sufficient- majority to carry out his policy, though there he u Unionist majority. The possibility of Lord Derby forming a Cabinet including Free Traders, is being discussed. In this connection it is interesting to note that Lord Salisbury. the Free Trade leader, has gone abroad io rest on medical advice. The Liberal official estimate is that the Unionists will lose b> seats, apart Irom ten or twelve Unionist Free Traders who will lie returned. Lloyds are charging from three to rive guineas pw cent, a- insurance to cover lo.—es in the event of a Labour majority; 27> guineas in the event of a Liberal majority, and 20 guineas in the event ol' the Conservatives tailing to obtain a, majority. NEW LABOUR BACKER. LONDON. N»v. -7. Tn the election campaign a new combatant le enter the Party fray is Yisi oimt Haldane, former Cabinet Mtu-■-)■(.i- nod a noted war Minister, lit l ,■ I'iti io .s>uunion io support tic Labour candidate. Unl'ort umitely. owing to the delaying of his train. Lord Haldane was only aide to wish Labour g,„„! Inch before he had to take train 'hack to London, YI \CD()NA ! I) IN RF.i’I.Y. LONDON. Nov. 27. llr Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Leader, speaking at Aberavou. late than Lord Birkenhead, said the Tones had brought down Lord Birkenhead to preach the go-pel of protection, but if 20 Birkenhead- were lei loose, it would only he to the advantage ol the Labour Party. SOME ELEA’ ENT 11 HOUR SURPRISES. LONDON, Nov. 2(1. The nominations led to some surprise. For example, the Labour nominee for Bridgewater withdrew at the last moment, leaving Sir J. Sanders a -iraight out fight with the Liberal. In the Abbey division of Westminster. Doctor Finucittic, the Liberal, retired, leaving General •!. S. Nieholsoii unopposed.

Chcl-oa produced a. Liberal candidate e.t the lasi; moment, making it a three cornered light for Air Minister 1 Inure. .Mr liamsav McDonald now lias a straight light with a Conservative at Aheravon. The Liberal nominee there retired at the eleventh hour. Two unexpected candidates have appeared at Birmingham, one a Liberal against Sir Francis Low in the Ldghaston division. A woman journalist has provided a surprise at Berwick by being nominated as the Labour candidate against Mabel Bussell. The Labour split at Paisley is not healed. Thus Mr Asquith will have three opponents, a Labourite, a Co-op-erative. and a Conservative. LLOYD GEORGE'S TOVR. LONDON, Nov. 20. Mr Llovd George, in the breeziest mood, made frequent small speeches to the people from railway platlorms between Glasgow and Sunderland, where he came to support Sir Hamer Greenwood. There were numerous hecklers, hut everywhere Mr Lloyd George faced them with remarkable quickness and good humour.

.Mr l.luyd George, speaking at Edinburgh railway station, described the Conservative liopes fos “a .son*; victory played oil the triangle." He added: The triangular duels will alone give Toryism a chance of coming into power. Apart from 5000 in the Sunderland Stadium, there was an equal number in an admitting skating rink, who heard hint hy means of amplifiers. Mr Lloyd George urged that the shipping industry in Britain would not only he handicapped. hut crippled, under any system of restricted imports and exports. The present attack on free trade, he said, was a surprise attack in a fog. hut it was more subtle than those of lf)0:T and 1013, inasmuch as the attacks wore conducted hy an honest man. Tie went on to draw an imaginary structure of Mr Baldwin offering in carry a lady's grocers- parcel, as an honest man,. -Lndv. I am an honest man,” says Mr Baldwin. The lady looks at him twice. When she gets home, she finds a tin of salmon missing and her apples gone, and site decides not to let the honest man carry her groceries again.

OFF TO WALES. LONDON, Nor. 27. From Aberavon, Lord Birkenhead went to Cardiff, where lie had a remarkable reception, ne addressed three thousand in the Empire Theatre at Port Talbot.

THE CAPITAL LEVY'. LONDON, Nov. 27 Lord Birkenhead has opened a countrywide tour, rivalling that of Mi Lloyd George, by making a descent upon Mr Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour Leader’s seat.' Abcravon. The greater part of his speech was devoted to what he called the danger of a capital levy. He said it was universal knowledge that the Labourites had held a meeting to decide whether to jettison “this old man of the seas.” By a narrow majority thev had decided to retain the levy. Referring to tariffs. Lord Birkenhead said that the message which Britain would -end to other nations would not he provocative, but .-imply this: ‘You have imposed tariffs in order to preserve your own market for yourself. YYe have home markets, too. It is certain that, if we prelected our markets, foreign lnatuil’atturers would establish factories here, and British workmen would draw wages instead of doles.”