THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXV, Issue 4454, 19 January 1910, Page 2

THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

The Suffragettes Busy.

Writs for Slander.

London, Jan. 16

The local Unionists strongly resented Mr Lloyd George speaking at Grimsby during the polling. A hostile crowd surrounded the hall and cried “Traitor” and •‘pro-Boer.” The police assisted Mr Lloyd George to escape along tire railway line to the first station, whence he motored to Louth.

During his meeting at Louth in the evening suffragettes secreted between the ceiling and roof compelled Mr Lloyd George to cease speaking while they were ejected, Mr Foster Fraser and Mr Bagley, the Unionist workingmen candidates for Leicester, have issued writs against Mr Ramsay Macdonald for slanderously alleging that they bribed the electors with drink.

The suffragettes were active in all constituencies. They stood outside the booths and urged every elector to keep the Liberals out or write across the voting paper “ Votes for women.” Mr Churchill, at Dundee, incidentally stated Mr Gladstone bad tried prison methods of forcible feeding with whole meal to test the suffragette grievance of cruelty, and it was found that so little inconvenience was caused that those under treatment talked throughout the operation. Will Crooks Arrives in Time, but Too Late.

London, Jan. 17.

Mr Will Crooks received an ovation on his arrival at Woolwich, after his tour of the Colonies. He declared he brought from Canada and Australasia a message of hope to the world regarding the solidarity of labor. Mr Crooks declared that the people of New South Wales complained bitterly of the 5 per cent tariff, under which the price of commodities had been raised 16 per cent. He added that all Colonials repudiate with scorn and derision the suggestion to give them preference. An orderly Unionist demonstration attended by a hundred thousand people was held at Liverpool against Home Rule. When the Rev Sylvester Horne (who has been returned as the Liberal member for Ipswich), entered the pulpit at Whitefield’s tabernacle the congregation cheered and waved theirhats and handkerchiefs.