News of the Week The Election Campaign I F there is
much less excitement and much less bitterness than in former election campaigns, it is because the issues are numerous and confused. Feeling is dissipated over many subjects requiring thought before a man can say anything, and the result is a "most: welcome tendency to prefer reflection to abuse.. The Times Parliamentary correspondent even "reports - thit Unionist candidates have discovered that audiences; are more interested in statements and justifications''' of what the Government have done- than in: "promises necessarily hazardous and speculative. -The -prophecies* that the huge new electorate would fie swept hither and thither on gusts of ignorant pasaliM have not been fulfilled. So far the signs seem to be-that Mr. Baldwin. has been right in his estimate of the state and quality of public sentiment. On Monday the nominations were made throughout. Great Britain and Northern Ireland, except for the combined English Universities, whose nominations followed on - Tuesday. " The number of candidates is unprecedented—Unionists 690, Labour 570, Liberals 512, Communists 25, others 82. * * * *
