27 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 4

* * * * We wonder what- will happen now.

Very likely Mr. ■ Lang will ask the Governor for a fresh and still more swamping nomination. But by that time feeling in New South Wales will have grown even stronger than is now against Mr. Lang's passion for having a so-called; democratic State run by a Labour caucus. Mr. Lang. has a tiny majority in form only ; numerically he is in a minority ; yet he has tried to pass a startling series of measures which were not mentioned at the elections. How strange that such things should be done with a straight face in the name of democracy ! In our first leading article we discuss the tendencies of Labour here to behave like Mr. Lang only less so.

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