EXETER ELECTION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10211, 13 April 1911, Page 5

EXETER ELECTION

LIBERAL MEMBER UNSEATED.

AN EXCITING SCE-VE.

(Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 12,

Mr St. Manr, speaking front a railway carriage when leaving Exeter, said: —"When the town is purged of the class of people responsible for this petition, and the country is cleared of unjust judges, Ave shall meet again." Someone touched Mr St. Maur on the shoulder, and looking round he saw Mr Justice Ridley, who said, "You have no right to say those things of me." Mr St. Maur replied : "I have a perfect right to express my. opinion." Other heated words were exchanged, and Mr St. Manr's sympathisers jeered Justice Ridley. Meanwhile the latter resumed his seat and became absorbed in a newspaper. Mr St. Maur concluded his speech by saying that when, before long, he returned to the House of Commons, considerable notice would have to be taken, of the Exeter case. Mr Duke, addressing the Constitutional Club at Exeter, said an overwhelming majority on both sides were determined to have clean fighting. Neither party were responsible for city men who were devoid of political morality. He hoped that, as Constitutionalists, they would enter any future fight with goodwill towards every straightforward opponent.