INCALCULABLE FACTOR

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1924, Page 5

INCALCULABLE FACTOR

HOW WILL LIBERALS VOTE?

LONDON, 21st October. \,,"ft is practically only a week until t polling day; yet there is evidence in ill quarters that large masses of tho electors remain uncertain how to vote. Conservatives arid Labour are equally confident of increasing their, representation at Westminster. If they should do so it will obviously be at the expens» of the Liberals, yet it is ~b'y no meaiw certain that the Liberal vote will bo wiped out to that extent. On the other hand, some of the shrewdest critics are of opinion that many electors, wherever possible, Svill vote for the Liberal candidate, as" representing the' middlft party. : ■"•;■.' .: . '■„-' Curiously enough, the "Morning Post," which is out-and-out Conservative, has foreseen all along the danger from the Conservative point of view of driving the Liberals into the Labour camp,'and it records this morning a statement from' Liberal headquarters, given prominence in last night's "Star," that "the withdrawal of a Liberal can- ■ didate means only that the Liberal elector must vote according to his own judgment and and not neces-: , sarny for the old Coalition." Obviously, therefore, the Liberal vote must remain ah' important, and possibly a decisive, factor in the election.