The Archive · 1924

A RED OR AN ANTI-RED ELECTION

Disorders at Méetings: The Soviet Treaty: Labour's Ridiculous Promises on the Eve of the Polling" ba Frost Our Own London, Oct. 23.

People are trying to find label for this election, We had the Khaki Election of 1900; the Chinese Labour Election of 1906, the Budget of 1910 and. the ' Lords Veto Election in "the sams Then we had the Coalition Election in 1918 and the Tariff Blection in 1922. Tt would be. uly fair to call the present election "The Unveracious Election," because I think more fictions are being told in connexion with it than at any previous contest of the kind. They. are being firstly, because fon some issues the lenders of the present Government do. not know anything and leave their followers to say what they like, without contradiction, and, secondly, because the Labour Party has undoubtedly had great difficulty in wrapping up. its ineffective measures during its term of office, For the first time this has frankly Geveloped into a. Red or Anti-Red lection, Mr. MacDonald travel a motor ear—the MeVitie Price motor ear—with the red flag in front of him, something like the flag Which used to precede the traction engines of old on the public roads, His audiences display the red flag and sing revolutionary songs, cluding one called "The Red Fi At Sheffield yesterday, when the Prime Minister addressed a meeting, there was a riot of red. There rms in large num-

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