THE GENERAL ELECTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15273, 13 October 1911, Page 2

THE GENERAL ELECTION

Mr E. 11. Clnrk, M.l\ for Chalmers, is coming wnith this ovrninp, nnd will meet his Mosgiel Committee in tho local Borough Council Chambers a! 8 o'clock on Saturday owning. Friends and siimwrters from the surrounding portion of tlio electorate nro also invited to attend the meeting. Mr Clnrk hits charge of several imporLiat local bills, which arc in a more or I iff advanced stage, and as these may come up for consideration in the Iloiifo at nnv moment, his visit is a very brief one. He intwwls to return to Wellington on Monday morning.

Mr J. K. Mi'cMnnus, the candidate neleotod by tho Labour organisations, will otxm his campaign at tho St, lvilda Town I (all on Momhv evening.

Mr A. M'Cnrthy, tho I/abour candidate for Chalmers, gave an address at St. Leonards Inst evening. Ho stated lit tho outset that ho wished to outline tho ideal lying behind the Labour nlatform rather than indulge in the amenities usual nt a political meeting. He preceded to show that neither a shilling a day niore nor nn hour or to lens for unionists was of losio importance. Neither was there a desire to wrnst tlio political power from tho capitalists in order to exercise an equally hateful dominance over t.he people, but. lather to secure for all (includ.'ng tho children of capitalists) a full and perfect- life <m tho material plane, ami as a natural sequence full mental and spiritual expression, A voto of confidence wns aecoixlod the candidate.