THE COMING ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 143, 21 June 1927, Page 9

THE COMING ELECTION

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, I6th June. ■ AH ■parties are rallying their forced for the coming election in New South 1 Wales. Peace between the opposing] Labour factions can be a patched-up' and superficial affair at the belt, and! those who have their fingers ok the! pulse of the moment view the prospects! somewhat' gloomily. One of the most, prominent of the Federal Labour mem-: bers does not give the party a chance. 1 Even if, as is felt to bo the case iai some quarters, the Nationalists are giv-; ing away more than the Country Party! under the' agreement between those two ) parties, they will present a united; front as long as the pact between them: is loyally observed. It will bo the un-; attached voters who will probably decide the issue. The true blue National-; ist will, of course, vote Nationalist; thej Country Party supporter, will, simil-1 arly, remain true to his political faith,j and the ardent Labourite will natur-i ally, vote for one or other of the Lab-; our faction candidates.

Not infrequently the unattached! voter turns the scale at elections, and} it is not improbable that on this oc-j casion ho will vote against the Gov-i eminent. In polite phraseology, the] Labour regime in New South Wales, j especially during the last few months,! lias produced in him a feeling of sat-} iety. In the vernacular, he is "fedj up." The Premiership, if it comes the I way of the Leader of the Opposition,! Mr. Bavin, will be a reward for the| sacrifices he has unquestionably made; on the altar of public service. . Hisj legal practice, if he had stuck to it,| would have meant far more to him,| pecuniarily, than politics. Mr. Bavin.' has ability and an abundance of energy; where possibly he lacks strong personalj popularity, because of an unintentional! aloofness, but the feeling in favour of. a change of Government appears to be! so strong that his dynamic activity, if backed by an attractive policy, willj more than outweigh any little personal; characteristics which are apt to keep; one .at a distance. Mr. Bavin is not, for example, the type of man whom one addresses by his Christian name. But he blends with ability and effectiveness as a debater a dignity and bearing which ought to make for success if, as is generally anticipated, the pendulumswings in his party's favour.