THE POLITICAL FIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 197, 29 November 1910, Page 5

THE POLITICAL FIGHT

ELECTION NOTES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, November 27. The smasher of Mr. Asquiths window, named Goodman and described as a barrister's wife, was fined £5 or a month's imprisonment. Sir J. D. Rees, speaking at Kennington, declared that he had resigned a cafe seat at Montgomery because at a moment like this he did not care a brass farthing about Liberal or Conservative. The election was being wantonly rushed because some few who loved the people to the tune of £50,000 a year saw their offices slipping from them. Mr. Lansbury, the Tower Hamlet Labor candidate, has as the chief plank on his platform the right to work or maintenance. Moderate Liberals at Mile End are indignant at Mr. Lloyd-George advising them to support Mr. Lansbury. They will meet on Monday to consider the claims of Liberal candidates. Some advise supporting the Unionists. The Anti-Socialist Union has dispatched speakers to assist in the work of the general election. Mr. Bonar Law was addressing a meeting at Manchester when a heckler asked, "If the price of wheat is not raised by the proposed duty, how will farmers benefit?" Mr. Law replied that the proposal is not for protection but for getting preference with the colonies. He added: "I do not think farmers will benefit in the least." The Telegraph states that Mr. Austin Jones will oppose Mr. Lloyd-George for Carnarvon district. Mr. Lloyd-George, speaking at Edinburgh, said that if a referendum was taken on the Scotch Land Bill it would be voted out by the English, Irish and Welsh, who knew nothing about the question. Two millions was a moderate estimate of the co3t of a referendum, of which half a million would fall upon the ratepayers. Mr. Churchill, at Bradford, said there was nothing undemocratic in the referendum. Female suffrage might well be submitted to a referendum. He believed that a great increase of taxation on wealth designed to alter the extraordinary disparity of its distribution could be carried by a referendum, and therefore it was no bar to radical progress, but it might be unfair to minorities like the Welsh, Irish and Scotch, whose special points of view might be brushed aside through the indifference of majorities in other parts of the United Kingdom. SUFFRAGETTES' ACTIVITIES. London, November 27. The stewards, in rsmoving male suffragists from the hall, badly fractured one man's leg. Another male suffragist attempted to use a dog-whip on Mr. Churchill in a restaurant ear on the Bradford-to-London express. Special detectives accompanying the Minister frustrated his design. Three women attempted a further attack on him at King's Cross railway station.

Mr. J. J. Garvin, writing in the Observer, contends that if the referendum applies to Home Rule it must equally apply to tariff reform. This principle of boldly offering to submit tariff reform to the national vote will sweep Lancashire and change the fight to gain votes into a fight to win. LORD ROSEBERY IN REQUEST. London, November 27. Lord Rosebery has consented .to address a non-party meeting at Manchester of a thousand citizens of varying politics. Edinburgh has sent a requisition to Lord Rosebery to deliver an address there on the perils to the constitution. THE NAVY. London, November 27. In connection with Mr. Austen Chamberlain's address to the Liberal Unionist Council at Glasgow, the Council urged the laj-ing down of two capital ships for every one commenced by the next strongest naval power. LLOYD-GEORGE UNDER THE LASH. London, November 27. The Duke of Marlborough, addressing a meeting, said that when he interviewed Mr. Lloyd-George three years ago he did not suspect that he would become a target for insolent and unsavoury invective. He then thought Mr. Lloyd-George was a gentleman, but be seemed to have reverted to his type and become himself. What did the poor think of the sham poor man with £SOOO a year stirring up class hatred? He reminded them of Mr. Lloyd-George's cowardly attack on the Lords through their ladies. The insult affected one of his own colleagues in the Cabinet. LLOYD-GEORGE'S SCOTTISH CAMPAIGN. Received 28, 0.30 p.m. London, November 28.

'Mr. Lloyd-George is conducting; a series of meetings in Scotland, recalling the Gladstone campaign. There were twentty thousand applicants for seats at his meeting at King's Theatre, Edinburgh, and £2OO was returned to disappointed applicants. Mr. Lloyd-George addressed many meetings at railway stations and in the open air during a thirty-four miles motoring journey in Peebles and Selkirk, with several inches of snow on the ground. MANY UNCONTESTED SEATS. Received 28, 9.30 p.m. London, November 28. A feature of the elections will be the increase of unopposed returns, and the diminution of three-cornered contests. The Liberals have not provided candidates in sixty-four seats, ehie'fly in the

home counties. Unionists have not found candidates for thirty-six seats. SEEKING RE-ELECTION. Received 28, 9.30 p.m. London, November 28. Five hundred and thirty-eight out of 567 English, Welsh and Scotch Commoners, are seeking re-election. WORKING-MEN CANDIDATES. Received 28, 9.30 p.m. London, November 28. Unionists have working-men standing for Macclesfield, Stockport, Norwich, Hyde, Attercliffe, Ratcliffe-Cum-Farn-worth. The Standard's fund to assist these candidates has reached £6943. ELECTION EXCITEMENT IN IRELAND. RIVAL FACTIONS IN CORK. Received 28, 9.30 p.m. London, November 28. A riot occurred at Cork, owing to the supporters of Mr. William Redmond attempting a procession in the O'Brien quarter. The police blocked the way of the processionists, and had to make repeated baton charges. Eighty were taken to the hospital. MR. REDMOND ON HOME RULE. THE CABINET PLEDGED.

Received 28, 9.30 p.m. London, November 28. Mr. Redmond, speaking at Wexford, said Mr. Asquith had most solemnly pledged himself and the Cabinet and the Liberal Party, not to devolution, not to Home Rule all round, but to full selfgovernment for Ireland. Mr. LloydGeorge, Mr. Winston Churchill and other Ministers had repeated the declaration. Personally, he did not attach too much importance to the declaration of any English Minister, but the masses of English people were no longer enemies of Home Rule. The only obstacle was the House of Lords. THE UNIONIST PROGRAMME. SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR. Received 28, 9.30 p.m. London, November 28. Mr. Balfour, in an election address to the city Unionists, pledged his party to tariff reform, national defence, wider extension of freehold ownership, poor law and other social reforms. He also said he would not allow the liberties of the people to be impaired, and added, "Under the thin disguise of an attack on the Lords, behind the single-chamber conspiracy, lurks Socialism and Home Rule."