408:. Stanton presented himself as a 'National' candidate "standing on a National platform, and respecting, as I am, the political truce, I am considering not only the opinion of Labour men but of all sections of the community. And hence I do not hesitate to say that my candidature is national in the truest sense of the term. Surely, it is obvious that the success of Mr. Winstone, which is unthinkable, would be a message of discouragement to our soldiers in the field".
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parties were free to support
Stanton: "There is only one issue, one duty before the people. So long as the war lasts and the party truce continues, there are neither Tories nor Radicals nor Socialists in the party sense. That issue is the war and that duty is the vigorous prosecution of the war. ...
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candidate before the outbreak of war, stating that there "was no foundation the rumour ... that the 'official' candidate must receive the support of all the great parties ... Such a contest as is being waged in
Merthyr is outside the terms of the party truce because it is essentially a domestic
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on 17 November stating that
Winstone's candidature was supported and approved by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the South Wales Miners' Federation, the National Executive of the Labour Party and the Merthyr constituency conference "representative practically of every organisation in the
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2,257). In May 1910, Stanton was selected as the Labour candidate for the seat by a trade union delegates meeting and, by July 1910, he was described as the "accepted Labour candidate for East
Glamorgan". However, Stanton was not universally popular among the leadership of the South Wales Miners
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Aberaman, the southern neighbourhood of Aberdare. The mob was surrounded and searched and a revolver was found on Charles Stanton of Aberaman, who was 21 and recently married. Stanton was charged and convicted of possessing a firearm without a licence and sentenced to six months imprisonment.
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Nicholas had taken opposite positions during the War. Nicholas, like Hardie, was a pacifist, and had opposed both the War and conscription. They were also opposed in their policies for the peace, Stanton supporting the policy of imposing heavy reparations obligations on the defeated
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Hardie's death, on 2 September 1915, a year after the outbreak of the war, caused a vacancy in one of the two
Merthyr Tydfil parliamentary seats. The by-election to fill the vacancy was called for 25 November 1915.
457:. In their capacity as citizens, however, they have the right to form their own judgement at this supreme hour in the fortunes of the country with regard to the support they must give the government."
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was by no means downhearted, as he realised that he was preaching a new gospel for which the electors were evidently not prepared, but the day would come when his views would be much more acceptable.
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difference among the members of one party and neither of the other parties in the State has any sort of right to interfere either with the one section or the other." Jones added that members of the
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credentials, a barrister who had represented trade unions in major cases, he was also active in organising trade unions and industrial action. Edwards was not a socialist and he opposed a separate
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candidate, by 1,445 votes. Sir Edgar Rees Jones had first been elected to Parliament at the January 1910 general election as one of the two MPs for Merthyr Tydfil.
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505:". He comfortably defeated the Labour candidate,
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34:. For the Adjutant General of Connecticut, see
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