MR SPEAKER
OPPOSED IN CONSTITUENCY AN ATTACK ON TRADITION (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, October 27. (Received Oct. 28, at 0.5 a.m.) The Labour Party has adopted Mr T. E. Barnes to contest the Daventry seat against Captain Fitzroy (the Speaker of the House of Commons) who, when adopted the Conservatives, read a letter signed by Mr Baldwin, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, Sir John Simon, Sir Herbert Samuel and Mr Lloyd George, protesting against the wanton ignoring of precedent and the attack on the tradition that the Speaker must be above polities.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 9
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93MR SPEAKER Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 9
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