CONSPIRATORS AND PLOTTERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1712, 31 December 1919, Page 5

CONSPIRATORS AND PLOTTERS.

MR HUGHES’S AFTER-ELECTION SPEECH. The final result of the Bendigo election was announced by the returning officer, and was as followsHughes (Nat,), 14,291; Hampson (Lab.), 11,676. Mr Hughes motored from Melbourne for the occasion; At a social eveuing at Bendigo Town Hall subsequently Mr Hughes said the Nationalists had won a great victory throughout the Commonwealth. When they remembered the forces that were working against them the election had been not a defeat of Labour, but of disloyalty. It had boen the complete overwhelming of conspirators and plotters in our midst who were seeding to undermine our national interests. Only when Labour had fouled itself in filth and allowed its foot to slip from the broad step on which it had stood, and had sold itself for thirty pieces of silver had it met with the fate it deserved. The election figures spoke for themselves. The writing was on the wall. It was the Sedan, the Waterloo, the Marne, or whatever they liked to call it, for the infamous and unholy combination that had for its object th<> disruption of the Empire and the destruction of everything we loved m ; revered.