RIVAL LEADERS AT GRIMSBY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13907, 5 December 1910, Page 7

RIVAL LEADERS AT GRIMSBY.

MR BALFOUR AND MR CHURCHILL. AMERICAN ENTHUSIASM FOR HOME RULE. (Received December 4th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON,. December 3. Mr Balfour addressed a meeting of 10,000 people at Grimsby on beiuklf of Sir George Doughty. Hβ uaid men of moderate opinions were coming over to the Conservatives. If the Liberals' proposals /were carried, the time when the Commons was a place, of debate would be gone for ever- The Government meant to give the country one-Chamber rule. That Chamber ■would..be working under a gag. The actions of the Commons under the grou#> system might not in the least renresent the people's settled will. Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking at Darlington, 'declared'that if -a f Unionist Government was in power it -would frame a scheme of tariff reform, and if the electors disliked this and said "No," it wosild be the signal for his retirement from the Government. Mr Winston Churchill, who had spoken at Cheshire earlier in the day, took a special train to Grimsby and spok© till midnight on Friday. Relays of motors carried fragments of Mr Balfour's speech at Grimsby, to enable Mr Churchill to reply to the Leader of the Opposition. He eaid if th& House of Lords 1 reforms were supported they would create a new heaven and. a new earth, and very likely a new something else. They would also be thoroughly democratic, thoroughly impartial—aud thoroughly Tory. NEW YORK, December 8. The American United Irish League is sending £2000 in aid of the Nationalists' campaign in Great Britain. Subscriptions are arriving from everywhere in the United. States.