Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-30
Spencer Churchill
Kept Busy Telling GallipoliI
Campagn-Lord Birkenhead
Continues Attack on League
Nations-Lloyd George in
Thick Of Fray

London, Nov. 20 (By A. P.)zWith
election day only a bare week ahead
the political campaign is growing in
intensity. The chief candidates for
parliamentary seats are making
daily an astounding number of spec
ches to their constituents, with Da-
vid Lloyd George easily the leader
among them with a record of some
fifteen addresses daily in his whirl-
wind tour.
Mr.. Lloyd George. together with
Lord Birkenhead and Winston Spen-
Ger Churchill. easily is the most pro-
vocative of the election orators and
accordingly is being favored with the
greatest amount Of opposition. from
hecklers. The meetings of Lord Bir-
kenhead and Mr.. Churchill also al
ways prove most lively, and some
times rather noisy and even diSor-
derby. Mr.. Churchill constantly has
been in hot water with his opponents
because of his connection with the
famous operations ON the Gallipoli
peninsula and in the Dardanelles
during the world war, being called
or by his hecklers to defend his po-
sition. These attacks are considered
in some quarters as due largely to
the fact that only recently the for
mer first lord of the admiralty pub
lished his book on the war. Mr..
Churchill shas been fierce in his at
lacks on the labor party and the pro-
posed capital levy, although these
questions belong to the opposing par
ty, while Lord Birkenhead persists
in his jibes' at the League of Nations.
Today at Ashton under-Tyn Lord
Birkenhead asked during a meeting
the question: Does any one believe
the whole Of human nature will be
altered and that all controversies
will be settled by the League of Ma
tions?" and answered the question
himself with the statement, IF you
lend yourselves to that folly you will
be in, the same position as the Lib
eral leaders in 1914, when their blind
ness and folly nearly destroyed their
country and empire"
On Great Britain's European poll
cy, Lord Birkenhead insisted on the
necessity of accepting the French
policy for some time to come il Great
Britain wished to avoid q quarrel
with France. He predicted there
would be no improvement in the Eu-
ropean situation for four or five
years to come.
Mr.. Lloyd George. Lord Birkenhead
and Mr.. Churchill are taking good
care that labor shall have no chance
of keeping the unpopular capital levy
in the background. In fact, almost
al! the speakers from both the con-
servative and the liberal platforms
apparently are doing their utmost
to fan the public fear of an inroad
upon capital interests. Besides the
addresses of the leaders of the three
parties, thousands of speeches are
being delivered daily up and down
the country. with full use of the
radio loud speakers in order that the
largest possible audiences may be
reached.
Premier Baldwin is addressing big
meetings daily. He is making a less
snowy campaign than his opponents.
but according to the general opinion
expressed by his adherents he is
making good Roadway in his cam
paign. The premier confines himself
chiefly to solid arguments on the
main question in his platform-un-
employment, and his proposed rem
edy of protective duties. The same
may be said of ]. Austen Chamber
lain.
Perhaps the fiercest campaign CEN
tiers in Lancashire, because the cot
ton trade does not want a tariff. 1t
is in Lancashire that the free traders
are most helpful Of detaching con-
servative votes from the government.
AS an indication of the intensity of
the campaign in Lancashire. Sir
Charles NIAGARA, one of the most pro-
minent men in the cotton trade for
the past 20 years. but who never has
spoken from a public platform. has
been induced to broadcast by wire
less speech outlining Lancashire's
accomplishments in the last century
under the system of free trade.