Over 200 Struight Fights Between Labour Candidates and Conservatives: Denunciation of Labour's Failure to Improve National Conditions London, Oct. 17.
The eandidasce selected for nomina Snowden charged Mr. Lloyd George swith ation have resiched 1,400, comprising 588 Conservatives, 7° Conctitutionalists, 840 Liberals, 485 Labourites, 9 Cooperatives, 8 Communists, A Nationalists and 14 others.
There will he about 210 three-cornered contests, nearly 60 less than ast year.
Later, A national agent of the Labour! Party to-day stated that the Party would have over 500 candidates at the election, including 21 women.
At present over 1,350 candidate for election have been adopted. Probably 43 will be returned opposed, including 25 Conservatives, 8 Liberals and 8 Labourites. It is Aikely that there will be 208 straight fights between Labourite and Conservative as compared with 99 last year, 40 between Labourite and Liberal as compared with 55, a between Conservative and Lib al as compared with 106, There has teen x notable fevease in the number of wom candidates for the coming elections which has swelled from 16 in 1918 and 84 Inst December, to 1112 Conservatives, 7 Liberals, 21 Soci lists and 1 Independent.
Oct. 18, The nominations ha been com: pleted except for the ish Comined Universities and the Uni sity of Wales Thirty-two were unopposed, com: prising 16 Conservatives, 9 Labour ites, 6 Liberals and 1 Nationalist, They include, besides Mr. Stanley Baldwin (Conservative: Bewdley), the Speaker, Mr. J. H. Whitley (Liberal: Halifax); the Postmaster-General, Mr. Vernon Hartshorn (Labour; Ogimore); and Mr. T. O'Connor (Nationalist: Liverpool) Oct. 18.
Election nominations have now reached a total of 1405.—Reuter. tives were ret majority the country would find self governed by a party led by Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Churchill and Lord Birkenhead,' with Mr. Asquith excluded. Mr." Snowden' further Aeseribed Mr. Churchill as the "Joh: coalition." the Baptist of another Liberal-Tory Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, at Barry, ked his opponents to. make a recent intellectual fight instead of sniffing like mangy dogs on a dung heap."
That the Liberals are selling. their sout is the theme of the Labovr platforms, where defence of the Russian Treaty and pride in the Government's achievements at home and abroad are the keynotes of the Mr, Wheatley, the Minister of Health, described Labour's opponts' utterances on the subject of urenaployment ax "sheer imperi wee" and declared that unemploy ment was a direct result of ths capitalist regime. He predicted that unemployment alone in a few years' time would lead to the return Westminster of Socialist Government pledged to establish a new social order as rapidly as. possibi Mr. MacDonald in' an election suldvess, appeals for support of th: which, he declares, the dream of a commonwealth of ser
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