BRITISH ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 16912, 9 December 1918, Page 6

BRITISH ELECTIONS

MR CLYNES’S PROTEST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association ana Reuter. LONDON, December 8. (Received December 9, at 10.15 a.m.) Mr J. R. Clvnc-s, in a speech at Rochdale, said that a real distaste for an election was general throughout the country. It waa a mockery of the franchise to put on the register soldiers hundreds of miles from home, who were not acquainted wth tho candidates, circumstances,, or the qnes tions involved in the conflict. Whatever tho result of the contest, the Government could not be supported by a moral and lasting force. [Mr Clvnes is Labor member for Manchester, N.E., who recently resigned from the Ministry, in which he had been Lord Rhondda’s right-hand man, and whom he succeeded as Food Controller.] On the ground that representation, of tho Highlands has in the past been very unsatisfactory a joint committee of the Highland League and the Scottish Advisory Committee of the Labor party nas been formed to assist tho former body to run candidates for Highland county constituencies, with a programme essentially that of tho Labor party, particularly on land questions, insisting on the need for Home Rule for Scotland.