OLD FASHIONED ELECTIONEERING.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 December 1926, Page 8

OLD FASHIONED ELECTIONEERING.

SMETH WICK B Y-ELECTIOM (Received Friday 5.55 p.m) LONDON, Dec. 17. Election scenes of the old-fashion-ed sort continue in Smethwick. The Conservative candidate, Mr Marshall-Pike, decribed in his nomination paper as a Secretary, says ne has done eleven years coal shovelling while Sir Oswald Mosley has been loafing in Mayfair drawing rooms. The candidates held a prolonged angry cross-talk from their respective motor cars, which nearly ended in % riot. Mr Ramsay MacDonald addressed a crowd of fifteen thousand In Smethwick Park in freezing weather, and during the proceeding a poorly-clad woman handed a baby to Lady Cynthia Mosley on the platform. One report says that she sheltered It in her fur coat and crooned to it happily. Another says that thi baby cried, and Lady Cynthia promptly returned it to its mother. The Conservatives complain that at elderly woman speaker was roughly handled and injured, while the Labourites say she fell accidentally In the crush. The real issue .of the election it is impossible to gather from the reports.