FEDERAL ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 68, 14 December 1931, Page 11

FEDERAL ELECTION

Issue Narrowed Down

MR. THEODORE’S FIGHT

Sydney, December 12.

With only a week to polling day the Federal election campaign has narrowed itself down to one vital issue—inflation or no inflation.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Scullin, Is now a frank supporter of Mr. Theodore’s financial policy aiming at the nationalisation of banking and changing the monetary system. The newspapers openly charge Messrs. Scullin and Theodore with being inflationists, and public interest centres upon this aspect

The Prime Minister is travelling across Eastern Australia at a great rate, and, is being well received in the larger centres. He insists that he is totally opposed to uncontrolled inflation, and declares that his opponents are wage cutters and enemies of arbitration awards.

Mr. Theodore is fighting a strenuous battle in his own electorate —Dailey— against a rival Beasley candidate who, it.is believed, will run him verv close. Mr. J. A. Lyons, on behalf of the anti-Laboiir forces, has visited. Victoria and Tasmania, and is now back in New South Wales. While in Victoria he sought the held of his old colleague, Mr. Fenton, in Maribyrnong, but organised hooliganism prevented Mr. Lyons from getting a hearing. Nominations for the Senate in Tasmania and Western Australia closed yesterday, the number of candidates offering in Tasmania being 12 and in Western Australia 8.