Talk:Candidates of the 1910 Australian federal election

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Frickeg in topic Frederick Dent

Frederick Dent edit

Candidate for Oxley. I'm not sure how best to describe him. Currently he's listed as Ind Lab, but that's not right -- the Brisbane Courier reported him as Labour and corrected it the next day. In that linked article he's instead described as "standing in the democratic interest". I don't know if that's an actual party I haven't heard of or if it's meant in the sense of making a democratic contest instead of allowing Edwards a walkover. My best guess is to just call him an independent, but I'm finding myself quite unconfident with party affiliations in the early 20th century. Pappubahry (talk) 12:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

I suspect it's more a case of a descriptor - we might call him an Independent Democrat, I guess, but that would be pushing it. It's a bit like how people ran as "Independent Liberals" when there was no actual "Liberal Party". I think Independent is fine. (The Ind Lab is probably because there was no Labour candidate in Oxley for some reason.) Frickeg (talk) 12:43, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Reply