PARTIES AND SEATS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 986, 29 November 1910, Page 5

PARTIES AND SEATS.

MANY UNOPPOSED RETURNS. MR. LLOYD-GEORGE CAMPAIGNING IN SCOTLAND. SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR. By Telegraph—ProES Association—Copyright. (Rco. November 28, 9.30 p.m.) London, November 28. Sir. Lloyd-George is conducting a series of meetings in Scotland, recalling Mr. Gladstone's campaign. There were twenty thousand applicants for seats at tho meeting at tho King's Theatre, Edinburgh, «nd .£2OO was returned to disappointed applicants. Mr. Lloyd-George addressed many meetings at railway stations and in the open air. During a thirty-four mile motoring journey from Peebles to Selkirk there were Boveral inches of snow on the ground. A feature of the elections will be an increase in the number of unopposed returns, and a diminution of three-corner-ed contests. The Liberals have not provided candidates for sixty-four seats, chiefly in the Home Countries, The Unionists have not found candidates for thirty-six seats. Five hundred and tliirty-eight, out of 567 English, Welsh, and Scotch members of' the House of Commons, are seeking re-election. Unionist working men candidates are standing at Macclesfield, Stockport, Norwich, Hyde, Attercliffe, and Radcliffe-Cuni-Farnworth. Tho "Standard's" fund, which will be used to assist these candidates, has reached £GSi3. THE PEOPLE'S LIBERTIES. MR. BALFOUR IN DEFENCE: (Rec. November 28, 9.30 p.m.) London, November. 28. Mr. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, in an election address to tho City of London Unionists, pledged his party to Tariff Reform, national defence, a wider extension. of freehold ownership, poor law, and other social reforms. Mr. Balfour also eaid ho would not allow the liberties of the peoplo to bo impaired. He added that under tho thin disguise of an attack upon tho Hous« of Lords, and behind tho Single Chamber conspiracy, lurked Socialism and Home Rule. |. THE REFERENDUM, MR. CHURCHILL NOT AGAINST IT. London, November 27. Mr. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, speaking at Bradford, said th«r« was nothing' undemocratic in tho referendum, and the question, of female suffrage might well bo submitted to it. Ho believed, too, that a great increase in the taxation of wealth, designed to alter tho extraordinary disparity in its distribution, could also be' carried. The referendum, therefore, ■ continued tho speaker, was no bar to radical progress; but it would bo unfair to minorities, like the Welsh, Irish, and Scotch, whose special points of view might be brushed osido through the indifference of the majority in other parts of the United Kingdom. VOTE ON TARIFF REFORM. Mr. J. L. Garvin, an authority on political and fiscal questions, writing in tho "Observer,"- of which paper he is editor, says: "If a referendum is adopted on Home Rnlo it must equally apply to Tariff Reform. This principle of boldly offering to submit Tariff Reform to a national vote will sweep Lancashire, and change a fight to gain votes into a fight to win." i ', ITS '.COST. Mr. Lloyd-Georgo,'. Chancellor 'of • th» Exchequer,, speaking at Edinburgh, Said if a referendum wcro taken on the Scotch Land Bill it would bo voted out by the English, Irish,, and Welsh, who know nothing about tho question. "Two millions," tho Chancellor added, I "was an estimate of the cost of a referendum, of which half a million would fall upon the ratepayers."

A.REVERSION TO TYPE, / A DUKE ON ME. LLOTD-GEOEGE. London, November 27. Tho Duke of Marlborough, addressing a meeting:, said that when ho interviewed Mr. Lloyd-Gcorgo threo years ago, ho did not suspect ho would become a targot lor insolent, unsavoury invective. Ho then , thought Mr. Lloyd-Georgo a gentleman, but he seemed to have reverted to his type, and.bccomo himself. What did the poor think of this sham poor man, with .£SOOO, a year, stirring up class hatred? asked the Duke. Proceeding, his Grace reminded them of Mr. Lloyd-George's cowardly attack on tho Lords through their ladies. '.I be> insult affected one of his own colleagues in the Cabiuet.

Mr. Lloyd-Georgo, in his Mile End speech, referred to the attacks on Mr. Redmond for collecting funds iu America. Ho said: "The Tories must always have a bogey. This time it was a. gilt-edged bogey framed in American dollars. Since when had the aristocracy started despising American dollars? Many a noble house tottering to its fall had had its foundations pinned up with American dollars." The Duke of Marlborough was married in 3595 to Miss Consuelo Vandcrbilt, daughter of Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, of the famous millionaire family of New York.

MR, .REDMOND ON HOME RULE. "THE ONLY. OBSTACLE." (Rec. November 28, 9.30 p.m.) London, November 28. Mr. William Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalists, in speaking at Wexford, said Mr. Asquith had most solemnly pledged himself, his Cabinet, and his party, not to Devolution, not to Homo Rule All Bound, but to full self-govern-ment for Ireland. Mr. Lloyd-George, Mx. Churchill, and other Ministers had repeated tho declaration. Personally, said Mr. Redmond, ho did not attach too much importance to a declaration by any English Minister, hut the masses of tho, English people were no longer tho enemies of Homo Rule, and tho only obstacle was tho House of Lords. RIOTING IN CORK. RIVAL IRISH FACTIONS. (Rec. November 28, 3.30 p.m.) London, November 28. A riot occurred at Cork owing to the supporters of Mr. William Redmond attempting a procession in tho O'Brien quarter. Tho polico blocked the way, and tho processionists had to meet repeated baton charges. 'Eighty persons iwero taken' to the Hospital.