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Tall, tired Ramsay MacDonald finished his bitter campaign last week with four final days in his own Seaham constituency. His opponent was a plump 47-year-old schoolmaster, William Coxon, who until last month was Scot MacDonald's campaign manager. It was hard going. Everywhere along the line he was faced by snarling, short-tempered crowds. At Shotton he faced a booing crowd of miners...
...roared the crowd. Booing and stamping increased. Scot MacDonald threw wide his arms...
Stupidest move of the MacDonald campaign were the arrangements for his speech at Seaham colliery. If Schoolmaster Coxon had still been the Prime Minister's campaign manager instead of his opponent he never would have allowed Scot MacDonald to make a speech the very day that unemployed miners were drawing their reduced dole. He never would have chosen as a meeting place the same hall that had just been used as a dole pay office. Black-faced miners drew their pittances and cursed while unconscious campaign workers tacked MacDonald posters up under their noses. Fortunately there was no rioting...
...Seaham hurried Eldest Daughter Ishbel MacDonald, no candidate herself, to organize her father's campaign in advance of his arrival. On his 65th birthday the tall, tired, silver-haired Scot breakfasted at No. 10 Downing Street, then dashed to Seaham, began the bitterest campaign of his life. "Blackleg!"', a few hostile Laborites shouted at him (equivalent to U. S. union men crying "Scab...
...Most Wanton Election!" David Lloyd George, nominal Leader of the Liberal Party from which so many Liberals have split off, stormed from his sickbed last week: "This election is the most wanton and unpatriotic into which this country has ever been plunged!" (i. e. Scot MacDonald has broken and ruined the Welshman's party...