FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1917, Page 4

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

■GREAT NATIONALIST VICTORY.

Auatfaljau-N.Z. Cable Association.' Sydney, May 7. The latest returns place the Political Labor League Senate bunch ahead ii» : Queensland. Webster is now 'loading ljjr : ' a fair margin, but Glynn, Minister fer Home Affairs,,is having a hard fight, bw irig over 600 behind his opponent. The Herald makes the position in thtj House on the present figures:—

Nationalist*! 44' ■ ■+<&-***}****&* at Douotful f,;.T ' The morning papers claim that thi whole vote is a great Nationalist victory. The Herald say# it sho\y* conclusively that the people have fully made up their minds on four material point*, firstly, to see the war through to the Mttsr ead, secondly, they refuse to. be blutfai over the conscription issue, tHrdly,, tjtey object to caucus ruley fourthly, t&ey have an antipathy; to the imported. doitftjie? 'of the rW.W. \ THE LATEST KBTOMiBt Received May 7, 6.30 ran, • _ • Sydney, M^y*-?. The new Legislative Ooßttjfflcnrj In* dude H. Y. Braddon (ex-rirealtfant of <th« Chamber of Commerce), Hugh D. Mackintosh, J. Ryan (president or the Austral* asian Provincial Press Assodatton), Tj Wiiddoll (ex-State Premier), W. Brooks (of the William Brooks Conmany), andl & number of leading commercial and pro* tfessional men. | The election returns show that Aj.Gri'V flth (ex-State Minister) failed iitip«ti tempt to win the Newcastle seat* iarthr Nationalists. W. G. Spence (cjrfostmaster General) appears'to iave 10/rt the jDarling seat to the Political Labor league. King OlTalleyend Mahop, tWt> «i"Federal Ministers, have profeabfy bsen beaten by the Nationalists. NATIONALISTS LEADING FOB TEE : " SENATE. J -• ' 9y<tnejt May 7. The latest Queensland returns place the Ministerial Senate trio ahead. The whole 18 Nationalist Sefiate oandidates are now leading. . MR. HUGHES ANBHISOLD FRIENDS, The break between Mr. Hughes and Jiis old friends of the Labor Party and its juntas and committees is, of course, absolute. In 'the vulgar phrase, he fs giving them beans. Speaking at Inverell he said:—

"I do not hesitate to say now that for the most part tha members of the executive who are controlling these men are disloyal to Britain. They hate her, arid they see in her danger theiroppor'tunity for personal advancement. The attitude of our opponents is such as baffles any attempt to explain or excuse It. This party that opposes us treats this war as a side issue, but they put much to the shop window in order to make people think they are earnest about it. But men* are not to be triad by their words, but their deeds. If Satan came on to this platform with Ms tail hidden in tho folds of some religious garb and preached the doctrine of Christ, how long would he deceive you? Only until he turned round. (Cheers and laughter)!- Turn these people round I say—(cheers)—see who is behind them—(great cheering)—•. whom do they stand with. They are m favor, of strikes as- against Arbitration. They stand for revolution against order. Although they are now endeavoring to hide their advocacy of the ItW.WV, they stand with it. Most of them are againit the war. I do not wish to do any of ,them an injustice, but I say that most of .them are against recruiting. I condemn them by and large, and 1 condemn those who control thorn wholly. They stand for extravagant wild-cit finance. They would throw every industry into confusion and chaos. They ar? in favor of decreased production * and the go-slow policy. (Great cheering). It is impossible to find fault with

this on the. grounds of hidefinitemss, at any rate (observos the Sydney correii pondent of the Lyttelton Times).