AN UNPOPULAR CANDIDATE.
CONSERVATIVES ANNOYED. (BI CABLI—PBKSS ASSOCIATION—CUJIBIQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND !f-Z- CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 18th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 17. Mr Ernest Hailwood, who has already stood as an Independent Conservative at two by-elections, losing his deposit in each case, is standing again for Faversham. When he was leaving tho Guildhall, where he handed in his nomination papers, he was angrily attacked by a group of orthodox Conservatives, who shouted: "You're not a Conservative. .You're a Socialist. You will lose your £150." Mr Hailwood, retorting, said: "I am a Conservative. You blighters are not fit to be Conservatives, Socialists, or anything else." The by-election, in consequence of Mr Hailwood's nomination, will be four-cornered.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19212, 19 January 1928, Page 7
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