“DECLINED TO RUN AWAY"

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1931, Page 7

“DECLINED TO RUN AWAY"

MR. MACDONALD WEARIED

BRITISH ELECTION CONTEST

LIBERAL PARTY ARGUMENT

LABOUR AND WAGE CUTS J . - By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.45 p.m. London, Oct. 15. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at the Blackwell colliery made his first confession of strain. He admitted that he was feeling weary after two years in harness. A fight like the present was a tremendous test of mental and physical endurance. “I wanted the Labour Government to remain in office and face the facts manfully, but they would not and I declined to run away,” added Mr. MacDonald.

Sk* Herbert Samuel’s supporters continue to complain of Conservative opposition at Darwen. Liberal headquarters issued a list of 120 candidates, excluding the 37 followers of Sir John Simon. If all stand it will result in perhaps 70 three-cornered contests, but the list may prove to be optimistic. Money is not plentiful and the £l5O deposit may not be forthcoming in all cases. • ’

Colonel Tweed, described as Mr. Lloyd George’s political adviser, stated that the S'imonites by their own action had ceased to be members of the Liberal Party and were regarded as Lib-eral-Unionists.

The Independent Labour Party has issued a list of 10 candidates, stating that they will contest the election independent of any other organisation. Mr. J. H. Thomas at Derby said he had no hesitation in announcing that he would restore the unemployment cuts which affected 2,000,000 workers. The Daily Herald describes these as the meanest cuts of all. Rear-Admiral Dewar, late of the Royal Oak, has been adopted as the Labour candidate for Portsmouth North.

Mr. Lloyd George telegraphed to his wife, who is campaigning at Carnarvon boroughs: “I am prepared to support this or any other Government which I feel convinced is doing its best regardless of party advantage to advance the interests of the nation and to extricate it from its difficulties, but I decline to walk with my eyes wide open into the tariff trap.”