ONE MUST DIE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 October 1924, Page 7

ONE MUST DIE

THREE PAR,TY T SYSTEM. LABOUR LESS OPTIMISTIC. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 20, 1.20 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 19. Sidney Webb (President of the Board of Trade) told a South Hatton meeting that the election would rank in history as the funeral of one of the great political parties. Never again would there be a Liberal Premier or a Liberal Leader of the Opposition. Parties always perished of decay from gradual inanition. When political democracy was achieved Liberalism had nothing and it was clear now that the nation would insist on returning to the two party system, otherwise the British constitution could not work. ' Mr. Baldwin said they might as well talk of “a chilly hell" as Labour’s constitutional revolution. Sir John Simon said: “Socialism is rainbowlike : you never find the field where it ends.” The Conservatives claim that since Labour came into power the retail price of bread had increased from 8-)d to 9d, butter 2s 6d to 3s, bacon 16l|d to 18d, beef 17id to 18d. LORD YOUNGER’S PREDICTION. Received Oct 20, 11.40 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 19, Labourite,prophets are becoming less optimistic owing to the co-operation between the Conservatives and Liberals, but they are sustained by the remarkable enthusiasm of Labourite meetings. Opponents point out that Labour’s rapid increase during the four years were gained chiefly in the dense centres of population, where they now hold many seats. Therefore, there is less opportunity for further gains. Labour has made little progress in the rural constituencies, and would require a. country-wide landslide to obtain the additional 120 seats giving them a clear majority. Twenty-one Commoners are not contesting seats. Lord George Younger, who predicted Mr. Bonar Law’s sweeping victory in 1922 and Mr. defeat in 1923. believes that the Conservatives will return with a clear maioritv Sydney Snn Cable. FINAL FIGURES. 1414 CANDIDATES. Received Oct. 20. 2.45 p.m - m LONDON, Oct. 19. ih-e final figures show that 1414 cancudates were nominated on Saturday, including 32 who are unopposed, making with the previous nominations *for Cambridge and London Universities, - a total of 1421 candidates, comprising 533 GTratives, 7 Constitutionalists, c4l Liberals, 501 Labourites, 9 Co-op-eratives 8 Communists, 12 Independents, 7 Republicans, 1 Sinn Feiner, 1 Nationalist, and I Prohibitionist. Nominations for the Combined Universities and the University of Wales have yet. to be made. Twenty-three of 228 threecornered fights are in London. — Reuter. “NO MONKEY TRICKS.” Received October 20, 11 a.m RIGA, Oct. 19. Zmovieff’s speech (referred to on page 5), which was accompanied I by laughter, described Mr MacDonald’s situation as “affording the first cinema display of us on the international political screen.” He taunted Mr MacDonald with a statement on the eve of his acceptance of the Premiership that he was determined to have no monkey tricks from Moscow*. Mr MacDonald was now fighting with his back to the wall. He must, find sei'ious arguments in favour of Bolshevism and willy-nilly plead the Moscow cause and . defend Campbell.—Reuter.