QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 6

QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS

A determined struggle is proceeding in Queensland between those who support the Labour Government, now in power, and those who are endeavouring to oust it. The sins laid to the charge of the Labour Government of Queensland are many, and some of them are called by very ugly names. Public expenditure persists in exceeding revenue, and the Public Debt continues to grow. Notwithstanding these obstacles to progress, the latest reports from the State go to show that there is plenty of money available for spending on unessentials, and returns from wool and sugar have put a large amount of cash into circulation. During the last twelve months there have been no commercial failures of any magnitude. The elections take place to-morrow, when the majority of the people of the State will decide whether Mr. Theodore and his supporters shall continue for another three years to occupy the position they have held for the past six; or whether there shall be an entire change from a frankly Labour and emphatically one-class form of government. It would not be surprising to see Labour again returned, for there has been nothing but wrangling among its opposing forces. There are at least twelve seats in which therei will be threecornered contests, and in one electorate there are four candidates — viz., at Murrumba. In the remaining electorates, numbering fiftyfive, there will be straight-out fights between Socialist and antiSocialist candidates. The results of the elections have an importance far transcending that of the State in which they are to be held tomorrow; They will show that the solidarity of Labour will have to be emulated by iis opponents if their common enemy is to be defeated, and that the cause will have to dominate the man; If Mr. Theodore and his associates are put out, then it will be evident that the people as a majority are sick of them, and, notwithstanding the quarrelling among the anti-Labour organisations, have risen superior to their professed leaders.