BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1924, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. SO AIK OF TIIK SPKKCIIKS. LONDON, April 10. Sidney Webb told a South Hatton meeting that the election would rank iu history as the funeral of one of the great jiolitictil parties. There would never again be ti Liberal Premier or Liberal Loader. Opjiosiliou Jitnties always perished td decay from gradual inanition. When political democracy was achieved. Liberalism bad nothing left. It was now clear the nation would insist on returning to the two juu-ty system. Otherwise the Itriti.sli Constitution could not work. He said tlk'.v might t\s well talk of a chilly Hell, as of labour’s constitutional revolution. . Sir .1. Simon said Socialism is a rainbow like you never find in a held where it ends. The Conservatives claim since Labour lias come into power, the retail price of bread increased from bd to -hi. butter 20d to 80s. bacon He'd to 18(1. TilK NOAITX \TIONB. LONDON. Oct. 19. The final figures show that LIU delates were nominated on Saturday, including 32 who were unopposed, maki„„ with tlie in-cvious nominations for Ciimbridgc and London Universities, 11-M candidates, comprising .>33 Conservatives. 7 Cunseravtives. 311 Liberals. <5Ol Labourites, 9 Co-operators, g Communists, 12 Indejien'dents. 7 Hepublirans. 1 Sinn Feiner, 1 Nationalist. 1 Prolii lii ton ist. . The nominations for the combined Universities and the University of Wales have yet to ho made. Twei.tv-th.ee of the 228 three-corner-ed lights are in Loudon LONDON. Oct. 20. A Christian Pacifist and a Liberal candidate lias been nominated foi the University of Males.

WKKK-KNO SPKKCIIKS. LONDON'. Oct. 20. Tin* week-end speeches have dealt almost exclusively with the Campbell case and the Russian Treaty. Neither the Cunseravtives nor the Liberals have advocated their own planks half as strenuously ns they have opposed Labour’s; but there is a change iu tone that is most noticeable in some of the I iberal newspapers, which are now warning their readers of the dangers of the return of a Conservative Government tis the result of the o\etiniicli harping upon “Socialism the common danger!” cry. They point out that the Conservative manifesto in their references to Im|:eria! jireference can lie taken to entail an insidious form of tariff protection. They also .mint out that, although it is not mentioned in the manifesto, the Conservative's’ |ml icy its approved by their Party conference, on the eve of the election, includes the restoration ol the House of Lords powers of veto. LONDON. Oct. BE Lord Thompson (Air Aliiiister). speaking at Sheffield. declared that il the so-,Tilled “anti-socialist jiact” was successful. it could only lead to a disastrous Coalition, from which it, would take two Baldwins to keen Air Lloyd 'George out. Such a Coalition would mean another election in six months. LONDON. Oct. 20. 'fhe total number of candidates are 1 120. Twenty-one Commoners are not contesting their scats.

VRCI IllLSl IOP’S VIEWS. LONDON. Oct. 19.

The Archl:isho|> of Canterbury |ireaching at Sittiiigbomne. said that the j.eo|)le. from Penzance to N-'l'a Flow, must in a few days, vote <onseientionsly for those deemed fittest to handle Hie "•real issues that now were nt stake. He said: “Wo must not onlv think of these islands, but of pur rcsnonsibiliiv for a world-w.de empire. This election nlfects issues ol enduring consequence for stability • Ul< progress tlironjrhnut the Nonunions and India. ns well ns in ]»ritain.