IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2600, 7 September 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

GENERAL ELECTION POSSIBLE.

EX-BOER OFFICER RETURNED

FOR IRISH SEAT

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LONDON, Sept. 5. The newspapers are discussing the possibility of a general election in January. A great meeting of Liberal agents was held yesterday to discuss the outlook.

‘ LONDON, Sept. 5

Mr Arthur Lynch, an ex-Boer officer, has been returned unopposed for West Clare seat in the House of Commons, in place of Mr J. lialpin (deceased).

REMARKABLE SPEECH BY WINSTON CHURCHILL.

A TAUNTING AND DEFIANT UTTERANCE.

(Received September 6, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6.

Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at Leicester, said that tho great difficulty that confronted a speaker at Budget League meetings was that he had nobody to reply - to. It was true that Mr. Balfour, from time to time, omitted four or five columns of inspired equivocations, which the chief newspapers hastened to acclaim as another epoch-making pronouncement, and that the small fry of the Tory party had been splashing actively in their proper puddles. . He only hoped that their performances had given satisfaction to their employers, the brewers and ground landlords. The millionaire newspapers wore so painfully conscious of the absence of a ToTy spokesman capable of answering Mr LloydGeorge’s Limehouee speech on August Ist, that they were inclined to take up Lord Rosebery. The Government did not ask the rich how much they had, but how they got their riches. Taxation according to the origin of wealth was a new idea, and no wonder that it raised a great stir and caused heartsearching.

THE STRUGGLE WITH Ta.E LORDS —A FIGHT TO A FINISH.

(Received September 6, 10.50 p.m.) Mr. Winston Churchill continued: “If the Lords win, they will have asserted thoir right to control the finances of the country. If they lose, -»e will smash their veto to pieces. The fight will be a fight to a ( finish, arid the fullest forfeits will be exacted from the defeated foe.”