QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 25 May 1915, Page 6

QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

LIBERALS DEFEATED

«t CAfltfi-fSEas A&ociATioS-cOPYEieHi

. BRISBANE, MayJ4, The latest returns . show a s'.i^itly improved Liberal position j ana indicate 49 seats for Labor and 23 for the Liberals, though a number are still capable of alteration. Apparently the only Ministers who will survive are Messrs Tolmie (Lands) and Colonel Rankine (Railways). The chances fcf the others appear beyoad hope, and Sftcognising the position as hopeless,, Mr Denham (the' Premier), sent .m the resignation of the Ministry. Th% Governor, on Mr Denham's advjee, fcent for. Mr Ryan, leader of fhe Laborites, 'to form a Cabinet "'

. Prominent politicians incline to the belief thac the disastrous debacle of the Liberals is chiefly* due to two factors, the nigh cost of living and hostility to the compulsory clauses of the Elections Act. A socialist candidate, while the elections were in progress, Tiad a paralytic sefeure, and died in a few hours.