Much Encouraged by Reports from Country: Winston Churchill in Role of Wellington London, Oct. 17.
The Liberals at Bewdley have decided not to contest the seat.
Consequently Mr. Baldwin will be returned unopposed.
Mr, Baldwin, on his way to Taunton from London to-day, declared that he was much encouraged by reports from all parts of the country. He was confident provided Conservatives turned up to vote on poll ing-day.
Mr. Winston Churchill appeared in the role of Wellington to-day at. Queen's Hall, where he vigorously: attacked the Labour Government, and declared that the prosperity of the Empire largely depended on the result of the election. The Socialist administration had been unutterably dull: It had not evidenced a single original idea, The British Socialists were the stupidest in the world. They borrowed their ideas from Germany and from Russia. The Socialist Party was not democratic. Tt was an enemy of freedom. Mr. MacDonald, while attacking the capitalist system, had inconsistent ly and insincerely embraced the frst) opportunity of becoming a capitalist. The Socialists were humbugs. At this critics! moment, he said like Wellington at Waterloo, "the whol me will advance." He believed that the whole line of Britain would advance together to a new realization of British national power and fame.
'Three cheers were given for Mr. Churchill as "the new Wellington.'—Reuter.
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