CHURCHILL'S OPPONENT

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 103, 30 April 1908, Page 5

CHURCHILL'S OPPONENT

Unionist and TariSite. (Received 5.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. Sir Geo. Washington Baxter, a Liberal Unionist and tariff reformer and a popular manufacturer, will oppose Mr. Winston Churchill for the Dundee seat at the by-election necessitated by the elevation of Mr. Edmund Robertson to the peerage. Mr. Stuart, a Labour candidate, will also stand. [Dundee is a stronghold of Liberalism. It returns two members, and at the last election the two Conservative members were at the bottom of the poll, aggregating 7,04S votes out of 19,492. Mr. Robertson was returned at the head of the poll with 9,276 votes, Mr. A. Wilkie, '■ Labour candidate, beating Mr. H. Robson, the second Liberal, by 6,533 to 6,122. Sir G. W. Baiter, being a Unionist and a Tarifßte, opposes Mr. Churchill on his fiscal views, and on bis opinions regarding Home Rule for Ireland, particularly regarding bis statement before the Manchester by-election that he had Mr. Asquith's concurrence in saying that if Parliament dissolved the party should claim full authority and a free hand to deal with the problem of Irish self-govern-ment.]