"COERAGE LIKE DRAKE’S."

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15972, 14 November 1919, Page 3

"COERAGE LIKE DRAKE’S."

LADY ASTOR’S CAMPAIGN: SLIM, PICTURESQUE FIGURE. LONDON, November 7. Lady Nancy Aster's lively electioneering at Plymouth, is providing one of the most entertaining topics in the press. Correspondents sent to watch the campaign describe her speeches as combining scintillating wit with an American accent, thongh lapsing easily into broad Devonshire dialect, delighting her audiences. Her slender, picturesque, figure, attired in black velvet, radiates energy, and plays a whole gamut on the emotions of the people, who, alternately cheering and laughing, relapse again into the most serious silence. She declared; ‘T am not a sex candidate. It took a courage like Drake’s and a spiritual faith like that of the Pilgrim Fathers’ to induce me to stand for the sake of the less fortunate.” Lord Astor, Ignoring electioneering etiquette, supports his wife’s - candidature, and point® out that if she wins the electors will be represented in both Houses.