COMMONWEALTH ELECTION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19725, 16 September 1929, Page 9

COMMONWEALTH ELECTION.

MR HUGHES DENOUNCES CRITICS.

FAITHFUL TO HIS PLEDGES. (C SIT fell FHtSS ASSOCIATION—BT «LBCT*HS TSLSGBAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received September loth, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 15. Mr W.'M. Hughes has at last eome out into the open. He declared: "I have been attacked —I will fight to the last ditch. I have said that Mr Bruce and those who support him have trampled on a vital plank in the Party platform at the same time they would denounce and excommunicate the man whose only offence is that he has been faithful to his pledges. They have vowed my destruction, but threatened men live long. "This is not the first time men have doomed me to destruction —where are they to-day t Why, buried under the ashes of ignominious failure. Mr Hughes begins his election earn.* paign on Wednesday.—Australian Press Association.

MR MARKS DETERMINED TO CONTEST SEAT.

SYDNEY, September 14.

The Constitution provides that Parliament shall meet not later than 30 days after the return of the writs, the date for which will be about November 12th. It is anticipated, therefore, that the new Parliament will be called together towards the end of November. Mr W. M- Marks said that he would contest the Wentworth electorate whether he waß selected or not.—Australian Press Association.