The annual Conference of the Scottish Liberal Association was concluded
at Peebles on Friday week, and signalised itself by a formal repudiation of Socialism. The last resolu- tion moved ran as follows : " That, while expressing the deepest sympathy with the genuine aspirations of Labour, the -meeting declares its belief that it is a primary duty of the
Liberal Party to present strenuous opposition to all candidates who are not prepared to dissociate themselves from the Socialist Party, the avowed object of which is the complete destruction of those principles of individual liberty for which Liberalism has always contended." An amendment expressing regret at the attitude of some representatives of Labour, but declaring that the proper reply of Liberalism was to proceed strenuously with its work of social amelioration, having been negatived, the resolution was carried by 55 votes to 34. At a luncheon subsequently held the Master of Elibank declared that he in no way regretted his previous attack on the wreck- ing policy of the Labour Party, while Mr. J. A. Pease, another Liberal Whip, stated that if the tactics adopted at Cocker- mouth by the Socialist section were to be repeated, " lie, as Liberal Whip, was quite sure that the Liberal Party in England, as well as in Scotland, intended to give that particular section of the Labour Representation Committee very little quarter."
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