LESS OPTIMISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 249, 20 October 1924, Page 5

LESS OPTIMISM.

among; labour prophets CLEAR TORY MAJORITY. PROPHESIED BY GOOD JUDGE pjj- ra',\e. -Press A.«.-,...iaiinn.-i*..pjrl s :u.) i lllecelveil 1J uoou.i LONDON", (Ictol.er 10. The Labourite prophets are becoming Jess optimistic, owing fo the eo-opera C 1 ion between the Conservatives and the Liberals, bin nn- sustained by the remarkable enthusiasm nf Ihe Labourite meetings. Their opponents point mil Labour's rapid increase during the past four year* was gained chiefly in ilndense centres of population, where they now hold many seals, therefore there is Jess opportunity of further gains. Labour has made little progress in the rural constituencies, and would require 8 countryw.de landslide to obtain an additional 120 seals necessary to give them a clear majority. Lord Younger, who predicted Mr. Bonar Law's sweeping victory in 1922. snd Mr. Baldwin's defeat in' 1923, believes that the Conservatives will return with a clear majority.— ('Sun.') BOLSHEVIK RECOMMENDATION MacDONALD UNDER PRESSURE. (Received 11 a.m.i .MOSCOW, October 19. In a remarkable speech nt Moscow regarding the Premiership of Mr. I'amsay MacDonaid, Zinovieff expressed the heartfelt desire of the Bolsheviks for a continuance of Mr. MucDonald's administration because it was under pressure from revolutionary labour. He asserted that Mac-Donald's "so-called •'followers'' hud forced him to sign the Jlussian treaties and release Campbell. Zinovieff declared that it was not now necessary to send agitators abroad. iliecause enemies like Mac-Donald had liecomc their best agitators.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) LIBERALS' DEATH KNELL. BACK TO TWO-PARTY SYSTEM. (Received 12 noon.) SYDNEY, this day. Mr. Sidney Web told a South Hatton meeting that the election would rank in i history as the funeral of one. of tho j great political parties. Never again would i there be a Liberal Premier or a Liberal ' leader of tho Opposition. Parties always I perished of decay from gradual inani- j tion, and w-hen political democracy was ; achieved Liberalism had nothing left. It was now clear thnt the nation would insist on returning to the two-party system, otherwise the British constitution could not work.— ("Sun.) CLOUDS OF NOMINATIONS. ] MR, BALDWIN UNOPPOSED. LONDON, October 19. -Mr. Stanley Baldwin (leader of the Conservatives) has been re-elected unopposed for Worcester (Bewdley). Other unopposed returns include those of the Speaker, Mr. J. 11. Whitley, Halifax; Mr. V. Hartshorn, Postmaster-General, Glamorgan. Ognioro; ■ and Mr. T. P. O'Connor (Independent), Liverpool, Scotland. It is expected that the total number of candidates who will be returned unopposed will amount to about 43, including 1213 Conservatives, 8 Liberals, and S Labour nominees. Mr. R. R. Pilkington, K.C. (Liberal), is not standing again for tho Keighley division of Yorkshire. A total of 1400 candidates had been selected for nomination up to yesterday. These comprised 533 Conservatives. 340 Liberals, 4H5 Labour, 9 Co-operatives, 8 Communists, 7 Constitutionalists, 4 Nationalists, and 14 others. There will he about 210 three-cornered contests, or nearly CO less than at the 1023 election.—A. and N.Z. and Router. "THE NEW WELLINGTON."* CHURCHILL LEADS ADVANCE. LONDON, October 19. Mr. Winston Churchill appeared in tlie role of a Wellington at the Queen's Hall, where he vigorously attacked the j Labour Government. He declared that the prosperity of the Empire largely 'lepended upon the result of the election. Tlie Socialist administration was unutterably dull, and gave no evidence of a single original idea. British Socialists were the most stupid in the world. They borrowed ideas from Germany and Kussia. The Socialist party was not democratic. .Mr. MacDonaid, while attacking the Capitalist system, inconsistently and insincerely embraced the first opportunity of becoming a capitalist. Socialists were humbugs. At. this critical moment, he said, like Wellington at Waterloo, the whole line will advance. He believed the whole line in Britain would advance together to a new realisation of British national power and fame. Three cheers were given for Mr. Churchil! as the new" Wellington — (Renter.) SHOTS FROM THE CAMPAIGN. (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 19. The nominations for Ulster's thirteen Beats include ten Irish Republicans, who were all made prisoners by the Crui<* Ciovernment under internment orders, and they will not be able to take part in the campaign. The Conservative headquarters have already issued do tons of printed matter throughout the country. The posters and cartoons deal mostly with Bolsheviks and fie unemployed. Listeners-in throughout the country Wrd Mr. Asquith's speech at Paisley. Hie transmission of the speech was so clear that even the hecklers were heard 'a London. The -Daily Express*' says the controversy over the Campbell case is now at a b kige in which Ministers are accused »Penly and definitely id having uttered deliberate falsehoods. Tlie council of the Trades' Cnion Congress has voted £iooo for the Labour party's election publicity fund. ft appeals to rbe unions to' make special grants to the party's fighting fund. The. national agent, of the Labour party stated yesterday that if. would have over 500 candidates, including -'l ""omen.— (A. and N.Z. and Reuter.)"