COMIC CANDIDATE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12021, 26 December 1924, Page 11

COMIC CANDIDATE

‘‘HUSH, NOT A WORD.” INTRODUCING HIS FAMILY. The Ecclesall division of Sheffield enjoyed a political pantomime twioe nightly during the election period. The chief comedian was Mr Albert Ttylor, who surprised the electors by his eleventh-hour appearance as an Independent candidate against the Conservative. Mr A. Harland. He had a deep-rooted dislike to the Bolshevik loan because he had pet proposals of his own for spending £lO,COO.OOO. Otherwise he was prepared to subscribe to the Socialist creed. His meetings were packed by people in search of free entertainment. He came out on the platform with his wife, five daughters, and a son, says the ‘‘Daily Mail’s” correspondent, j When the chairman stood up to speak,|Mr Taylor gently but firmly reseated | him and opened the meeting by intro. | ducing himself and his family-. This is how Mr Taylor addressed his audiences:— “I will let you people into a secret. Hush, you must not breathe a word, j I will tell you I can cure all the unemployment there is. I shall have subterIrnnean tunnels built linking- Sheffeld I with Leeds and all other cities with [each other- That-will keep the unemI ployed miners busy for years- They [lllll be useful for the next war as ! shelters for the people, i “I Must tell you these things be- | cause no one else will. -Of " course, I lam not Ramsay Macdonald, with a son |in America and a daughter fighting I for him. I am satisfied that when I [get fp Westminster I shall electrify [the whole nation. My wounded son—[come forward my lad —and five daught[ers will, open my'campaign. They all Iccme from Altercliffe. (A voice: ‘Oh, | my, what a lovely family.’) Don’t ! blush, dears. Look towards papa.” | When dealing with licensing questions Mr Taylor produced a flask and i stopped in the middle of his speech ! to' munis from it. ; r ...