IMPERIAL POLITICS.
STRATFORD BY-ELECTION.
THE DEFEATED MEMBER
United Press Association—Copyright
LONDON, May 6
Mr Kincaid Smith, who resigned his seat in the House of Commons, and sought re-election over tho policy of compulsory military, training, attributes his defeat in the Stratford-on-Avon byelection to the impossibility of fightng single-handed the two great parties, the electoral issue being tariff reform and the Navy. Ho adds that since the delivery of the Budget he has become, convinced of tho necessity of tariffs and now avows himself a fiscal reformer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2496, 8 May 1909, Page 5
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86IMPERIAL POLITICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2496, 8 May 1909, Page 5
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