BY-ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 177, 21 April 1908, Page 7

BY-ELECTIONS.

REPORTED SPLIT IN THE NATIONALISTS i MR. CHURCHILL'S CAUSE., t DEWSBUKY. BY TELEGRAPH —rRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Hec. April 20, 10.11 p.m.) London, April 20. .v.lfc is estimated that 600 out of 900 lnsl doctors in- Manchester support n manifostt / which.-has . boon issued by tho local priesthood,' urging thorn not to allow Mr. Uhurchil. / to.bofcray thorn a socond timo on the liduca- / tion question, but to voto solid for the . ..>. Unionist candidate, Mr. doynson Hicks. 1 -Tljo local leaders of tho Irish League d • Great Britain aro making a stirring rally oi tho Irish voto for Mr. Churchill. This diroct flouting of/Mr. Eedmond (Loader of'tho-.Nat-is interpreted to bo a sign of an •, , inward : struggle for supremacy 'in . tho counsels of tho Nationalist party. ! . ' r 'i'3lr.',\T. Boyd-Carpoiltor, Unionist, will opposo. the. Right Hon. W;- llunoiman (Fresi- ,. ; (lont of tho Board of Education) on his ottering ihimself.for: ro-oleotion-for; Dowsbury. I .'Mr.'-Turnor, a Labountej: will also 1 stand. ' r ' THE CANDIDATES. , , Mr. vW, Runciman,' like '.-.Mr. .Winston , Churchill, has -to go to his .constituents ."on ■ , /aimngi.Cabinet -rank;-'At the last election he'.pollod 670-1 votes 'to-. tho 2959 iof-.Mr. Boyd- ' Carpenter," who now 'oontests: the seat again- ■ k:.:' V./^jffiX a i'P^®^-" , iorityi'of r 3SOS- ? #ny'«' young : and. rising,; oandidatei'. the -.seat looks safe for the: Liberals.';--Mr. Ben Turner. (Labour), polled 2029 votes at.tlie last Dowsbury elootion, being thus plactfd third , ■ Mr ( W. B Boyd-Carpenter, M.A.I F.R.G.S.', .-bom.;in, 1869, is.the second son of the Bishop He gradunted at Cambridge, and is. .seoretary and vico-president of the Cam- / bridge Debating - Socipt) , nnd hns beon a lieutenant of the 4th West Yorks Militia He ]} or kGd for the Scotch-Education' Department ■ J??." 1 1898 to 1906,, and has been an Inspector Board of' Agriculture.-: Ho unsuccess- - con teste(l, m tho Unionist interest; 7 ~- Jlorley, Division:- (West Hiding.: of Yorkshire) in, 1900, and Dowsburv in 1908. He is vicev.President of - the Yorkshire ■ Tfnion' of .. . tiyo iAssocintions.:, Mr.; ■ has , t-_ in , Leeds, . London, ; Pans, - nnd ,has lived' among navvies on ■ tho Manchester Ship Canal and during the mnk»ng of;; the--East; and. West 'railway. '-. He-has ..'W oiled . in. the Australian colonies and Imopo, studying education and industrial . Questions,, (including svstoms of old apo pen- ■ . ' •;>•? :alia, he has' boeii ,hon." secretary ■ : 0., , i";->ry]ebone" Voluntary Schools, Com-. . , - I? 0 has lectured and'; written 1 considerably. \ , ■ '.W J th I- regard ,to the North-west- .Manchester Slection, Mr. Eedmond, in' a speech in. Dublin, s' ' word J''alliance "'being. :• .- applied ,to i;the .relations .between the Liberal -. and .the Jrish |)ai ties. , The. ,Irish remained a ■ independent I opposition, l , and, 1 allied •themselves, with no. one..unless on tho basis of tho acceptance; of full Home Rule. On \. ' / r - n l^ r ' tho Irish ought to oppose most' •'. ■ of j the .Government's chief Bills, especially the : Ldncation; find Licensing , Bills. Clearly/ Ires-; l^T aß^^o \hasten 1 a It was impossible, added Mr. Eedmond, to ask Churchill 611 °S Manchcstor ' to> support Mr.