IMPERIAL POLITICS
THE CHESTERFIELD ELECTION. LONDON, August 21. Home Rule was hardly mentioned in connection with the Chesterfield election campaign. The chief interest centred in the split between the Liberals and Labour. Mr Harvey, at Chesterfield, criticised the Labour party’s action, and declared that he refused to live longer in such an atmosphere. He refused to submit to the party’s dictation as to which lobby he should vote in. The party were not so independent as they pretended to be. The following is the result of the byelection for Chesterfield : Mr Kenyon (Liberal) ... 7725 Mr Christie (Unionist) ... 5539 Mr Scurr (Socialist) ... 583 [The figures at the general election were:—Haslam (Labour), 7283; Radford (Unionist), 5055.] August 23. Mr Smillie (president of the Scottish Miners’ Conference) rebuked the Derbyshire miners for their disloyalty to the Labour party over the Chesterfield election. He said that if the party was not strong or active in the House of Commons Ministers were to blame. The Liberal party was not earnest in the proposed reforms which it was dangling before the people.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 27
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176IMPERIAL POLITICS Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 27
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