PAPERS AND POLITICS.
A POLITICIAN'S PROTEST.
PRESS CRAWLING IN THE
GUTTER
[press association.]
MELBOURNE, Nov. 12. * In the House of Representatives tonight, Mr, BanVford, in supporting an amendment to the Electoral Bill- in favor of prohibiting newspapers from commenting on . elections. : between nomination day and polling day, declared that previously the press stood for all that was good, and was the redresser of wrongs: now it had descended from*its "higK pedestal and was actually crawling in the'gutter. All the paper 3 were on the Ministerial side. The Labor Party was like an 8-stone man going into the ring to fight a 12-storie opponent. ,
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 13 November 1909, Page 3
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103PAPERS AND POLITICS. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 13 November 1909, Page 3
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