FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
fHB POLLING ON SATURDAY. MANY INVOLVED ISSUES. By AlacratfL—Press ism.— Copyright. Received Dec. 8, 7.25 p.m. • Sydney, Dec. 8. It would be difficult to elaborate the issues really to be decided by the electors at next Saturday's poll. Both parties claim as their main plank antiprofiteering and financial readjustment. Since the Labor policy was announced the atmosphere has become clouded by ■any aide issues of Hughesism and Uranism. Mr. Watt (the Federal Treasurer), as spokesman for the Nationalists, defines w position as follows: "Whether we smash, up the States and have a uniiSeatfcoß, whether we authorise an experiment of universal socialism, whether the country is to be ruled by law or by direct'action, •whether we are to have a career of financial debauchery and insotveaey, whether we are to overthrow compulsory training and declare Australia defenceless and open to any predatory nation, whether Bolshevism shaU stalk Australia, and whether we shall weaken and destroy our Empire partnership." Laborites scornfully repudiate Mr. Watt's assumption that their success at the polls would lead to a fulfilment of conditions such as he describes.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1919, Page 5
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184FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1919, Page 5
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