New Britain herald., 1922-10-19

conservative party only those eonser- Native members of the house Of com mons who had supported the coalition together with the members of the house of lords who are members of the cabinet were invited 10 today's meeting,
 Lord Chaplin who Is 61 years old one of the oldest members of the party and the club, insisted on his right to attend, He had to be lifted l from his motor car and he mounted the steps with the aid of two canes, With several members of the house of commons not coalitionists however. Lord Chaplin was barred from goina upstairs in the club house to the ing held, Two or three of those ex- cluded protested helligerently, Chnmberlain's Appeal. Austen Chamberlain, the govern ment leader in the house, addressed the meeting first,
 He spoke strongly along the lines of his recent Birmingham speech, ap- pealing for the unity of the party he sS~ported along the lines of the pol icy suggested by its leaders.
 Stanley Baldwin, president of the board of trade, who leads the con servative members of the cabinet. op-
 posing MT. Chamberlain and Col. | Prettyman, opposed continuance of l the coalition, They suggested a de- cision should be postponed until the meeting of the unonists' association, Sir Henry Craig Scotch, unionist also l opposed an immediate decision of support of the coalition.
 Lord Balfour spoke in support of the government leader.
 Law Makes Plea.
 Mir, Bonar Laws plea for prevent ing the breaking up of the party is said to have made a profound tm- precision.
 | MT. Chamberlain says the best way to defeat the labor menace is to | continue the coalition with the liber- als," he is quoted as having said T say the best way is to maintain the party absolutely independent and you will defeat the labor menace in the end Otherwise you will split your | party just as the liberals are split" Cnionists To Meet. The announcement that the nation l al unionist association has issued a summons for an emergency confer ence of the party dropped with a bang into the troubled political arena and made everybody jump. 1 No one seems to have been more | startled than the government min l isters who learning only through the newspapers of the action taken by the association's executive committee | gathered hurriedly in Downing street last night to discuss the sensational l development
 Meeting Next Week. The emergency conference of the | unionist party is expected to occur either Monday or Tuesday. It is looked forward to by the anti-coal- tion tories with gleefu expectation. They declare the bold step of the executive committee under Sir George Younger has checkmated the threat to conservative unity involved in today's meeting and that it has STdNtly ulStuTDeQ the governments plans.
 They see distinctly brighter chances of a united conservative appeal to the country untrammeled by coalition influence and incidentally profess to be greatly heartened by the result of the Newport byelection which they contend is an indication of the flow ing tide of conservation. g.. The anti-coalitionists are entitled to derive whatever inspiration they can from this by-electon for the result is a far greater surprise to everyone 1t having been supposed the labor candidate was a safe winner in constituency which is largely indus trial and which had been ardently worked by the labor electoral ma chine.
 The anti-coalition tories whose can didate received the majority which labor hoped to capture now hail the result as the emancipation of the conservative party.