PREMIER ELATED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20572, 14 June 1932, Page 9

PREMIER ELATED.

INFLUENCE OF VICTORY

OVERSEAS

LABOUR MEANS TO FIGHT,

j SYDNEY, uiiao 13. j To day, the Premier, Mr B. S. B. j Stovens, issued the following stnteJ ment: J "As Premier of the United Govorn- | ment, I am delighted with the complete | expression of confidence in our Govern- | inent, indicated by Saturday's overwhelming victory. I consider it a victory for democracy, and I am confident . that the result of this election will be J immediately felt both overseas inid in j Australia."

Mr J. T. Laug said: The people have given their judgment upon tho case as ! they saw it, and because we believe I that the people alone shall govern, wo I accept their verdict. I sincerely hope that the amount of suffering to be borne along tho road that the people have chosen to go will not be as great aa I fear it will be. | Tho Labour Party will continue to light as tenaciously as ever, awaiting the hour (which will come sooner than is expected) when the Labour Party will again bo called upon to lead our fellowAustralians out of the wilderness. The policy of suppression arid distortion adopted by the metropolitan Press has succeeded in misleading the people. The electors have voted for a policy without realising its frightful consequences. "Considering that Mr Lang some 12 months ago secured over four to ono of tho votes polled, and his majority then was not far short of 10,000, I feel I can claim a great moral triumph," said Mr P. E. Coleman, who contested tho Auburn seat against Mr Lang. "I was handicapped by threats of intimidation i Two Lang Plan candidate;* who eonand terrorism which included the em- j tested Metropolitan seats polled only 559 ployrncnt of a gang to assault my work- j votes between them. ors. During the campaign I was more j than once threatened personally. Laug- ) Tl , p N Pw»miov ism is tho most pernicious and destruc- j ~ . tive iniluencc in polities '' i * Mr """am Forgan Smith, Leader of Mr 11. Gordon Bennett, president 0 f I Q uc enslanii L al>o ur Party and flrat in the Chamber of Manufacturers in Now j l* ll ® appointment as Premier, is a South Wales, stated that the manufac- na tive of Scotland, as his speech inditurers felt much relieved at tho result cat J c 1 B - He emigrated. to Australia and for they foresaw, if the Lang Party had settled in Mackay as a painter, although been returned, the gradual destruction s followed Ins trade for several of their industries for the purposo of y cars - J 18 t of nominations last socialisation. "The result," he said, mol }th lie was, for example, classified as "gives us a now lease of life, and we f. number of Parliament. ' Austranow hope for tho rapid recovery of our " ans doscribo him as a line speaker with lost trade." ' f, keou T .°e*rd for tho "gallery." In the previous Labour Government M$ Smith was Minister for Agriculture and Stock, and critics agreed that hia Department was well administered. Ho was first elected to tho Queensland Legislative Assembly in May, 1915, and ever since has represented Mackay. Five years later ho was appointed Chairman of Committees, then Minister without a portfolio. In 1922 he was Minister for Public Works, and in 1925 he became Minister for Agriculture and Stock. A Brisbane writer recently observed: Mr Forgan Smith has never boen accused of nepotism, and in all tho unpleasant revelations made in the State or suggested his name has nover been mentioned.

Newspaper Opinion,

Tho Sydney "Morning Herald" editorially comments as follows:—The shattering defeat of the Langites will arouse elation throughout tho Commonwealth. The people of New South Wales have notably uphold tho Governor's action in dismissing an outlaw and rebel Government. Mr Lang's own misrepresentations (which are deliberately false) of tho issues upon which tho Governor acted, of the issues at Saturday's elections, of the Premiers' Conference resolutions, and of the declared intentions of his election opponents, have been treated by tho people with derision. The fate of Mr Gosling (Mr Lang's Chief Secretary), whoso administration will be subject to -more than one searching enquiry, and of Mr Lamaro (Minister for Justice), who disgraced his office by expressing contempt of tho High Court, svill bo especially appreciated throughout the State. Mr Stevens and Mr Bruxnor have received tho most llattering vote of confldenco ever accorded to a political appeal in New South Wales.

Tho "Daily Telegraph" editorially says: Though it has been a. sweeping victory tho Stevens-Bruxner Government lias no easy timo ahead of it. Eighteen months and a little more of Langism have brought tho State to tho verge of bankruptcy as well as civil war. The new crew of the Ship of Stato will have to work off a year's deficit of £11,700,000 and the rest of tho legacy of Langism.

The "Labour Daily" oditorially comments —Tho people have decided, and the peoplo should decide. Some day, perhaps, tho people will really rule. To say that this present judgment of the electorates is a considerod verdict on the miseries of the times is to jest with words, when one remembers that the ease of Labour was vilified, falsified, and distorted out of recognition, and that it was deliberately excluded, not only from the news columns, but even from the advertising columns of our ''free and untrammelled Press." In the vernacular, tho people have been "sold a pup!"

LONDON COMMENT

A BLIGHT REMOVED.

COMMONWEALTH ACTION

VINDICATED

(Received Juno 13th, 7.10 p.m.)

LONDON, June 13

Tho "Morning Post," in an editorial headed "Auld Lang Sync," says: The New South Wales elections concerned us nil, and tho result vindicates tho action of both tho Commonwealth and tho Crown. It ends tho tyranny of tho Trades Ilall, repudiates repudiation, and, as the Premier, Mr Stevens, justly claims, vindicates the honour of New South Wales.

Tho "Daily Telegraph" says: 'l'hc Lang blight has been removed by one of tho most sweeping electoral decisions in Australian history. Tho success of moderato Labour iu Queensland in 110 wise diminishes the importance of rlio defeat of Langism. These two decisions complete the destruction of a movement that threatened tho whole financial future of Australia, and tho continuanco of the Federal union. The "Daily Express" and the "NewsGlironiclo" comment in a similar strain. Effect on Australian Credit. "Tho Times," in editorial comment on tho New South Wales elections, sajhs: The more solid Labour elements emphatically repudiated Mr Lang, because thev apparently felt that Langism must be crushed if the Labour movement was ever to regain its former hold Tho result must be emphatically gratifying to tho Commonwealth Government, whose policy of lionest finance was almost impossible of fulfilment while Mr Lang remained iu control. Such gratification, however, must bo tempered by regret at Mr Moore's defeat in Queensland, but Mr For Kan Smith is a moderate, and has refused to associate himself with Mr Lang. The City's markets will reopen to-day under cheerful circumstances. as a result of tho Nqw South Wales election, which cannot fail to enhance Australian credit. "The Times" Cable.