NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 20 October 1924

20 OCTOBER 1924

Nominations took place on Saturday for the General Election.

Stanley Baldwin, speaking at Cardiff, said Labour leaders forgot that the joint-stock system had taken us far away from the system of our grandfathers, and that the control of industry could be obtained in practice by anyone.

Winston Churchill, in the Epping Division, said the Unionists had definitely adopted a national platform, and they were the only party around which a stable Government could be built.

In a concluding speech of his Carnarvon campaign, David Lloyd George said that of a Government which had failed more conspicuously than any Government which had ever existed, Mr Wheatley had been the most portentous failure.

Replying to certain allegations made against the Socialist Government, the Premier at Aberavon said if he could not win on affairs of the State and his political policy, then let him fail.

Speaking in the Seaham Division of Durham. Mr Sidner Webb said that this election would rank in history as the funeral of the Liberal party.

Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame replies to the Prime Minister’s defence of the Russian Treaty. He states that the effect of the Prime Minister’s policy would be to bolster up those very conditions in Russia which make the development of trade impossible, it would also be a disastrous example to the rest of the world.