"NOW IS THE DAY"

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11960, 15 October 1924, Page 7

"NOW IS THE DAY"

MR MACDONALD CONFIDENT “WE HAVE COME TO STAY.” Reuter’s TelegramLONDON, October 13. A crowd of 500 Labour ‘supporters gave a hearty send-off to Mr Ramsay Macdonald from Euston this morning, when ho left for Glasgow to commence his whirlwind electioneering tour of Scotland andi .Wales. He is accompanied by his daughter Ishbel, his son Alistair, Lord Arnold, and Mir William Graham. The Premier, iq a speech, said: “This is tho biggest fight the Labour Party has ever had. They have never begun a fight in ‘better spirits. The Campbell case had nothing to do with the Government’s defeat. The other two parties decided that the life of this Parliament must be ended, because a Labour Government was in power, and was doing so well. . TO DO THEIR WORST. “Tho Labourites are now challenging them in tho country to do their Waist, We have come to fgtd

I am perfectly certain that by a san# appeal to all the patriotic elements in the State we are going to return substantially strengthened. I never felt more like ‘now is the day and now is -the hour; see the front of battle lower.’ ” The crowd eang, “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” and “The Red Flag,” and Mr Macdonald was presented'with a bouquet of red geraniums. The Prime Minister sent a message to London Labour supporters saying: “Fight hard and fight well, and keep your principles high. They will hit below the belt all the time, but don’t you do the same.”