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Premier Stanley Baldwin, Conservative candidate for Bewdley, made important speeches at Glasgow and Bradford. He said that he was taking the course advocated and approved by the late Mr. Bonar Law in calling a general election. Throughout, Mr. Baldwin based his protectionist policy on empiricisms calculated to prove that his policy was the only one which was capable of ameliorating the hectic economic troubles of the day. "We know how many industries depend on partly manufactured goods and raw materials ; we shall take no step without consultation with those industries. If any monopolies result they will be monopolies at home...
Margot Asquith. At a meeting in Glasgow which Mr. Asquith's brother, H. J. Tennant, was addressing, interruptions became so frequent that the meeting developed into a general uproar. At that point Mrs. Asquith, who was among the audience, ascended the platform and announced: "This gentleman is my brother. You have a perfect right to come here, but no right to do what you are doing now. Those who don't want to listen...
Rowdyism. At several points rowdyism assumed serious proportions. In Glasgow, H. J. Tennant, the Liberal candidate, was forced to seek police protection, while Miss Violet Robertson, Conservative for the St. Roller constituency, was spat upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings...
...Robert Home, at Glasgow, said: " What is the good of telling us that Free Trade won the War. It was won by the support of the finances of both France and America, both great Protectionist States, and we are still paying our debts to Protectionist countries...
...Even within the last few weeks, Lord Birkenhead in a speech at Glasgow referred to the Pope as the greatest priest in the world...