The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-07
ACHECK ON GLADSTONE
He Has Gained Only Fourteen
Tory Seats So Far.
LIBERAL UNIoNlsTs CRUSHED.
Stanley, Expecting Victory, Takes
His Defeat Very Much to Heart.
John Burns Elected by . Big Majority
Socialist CunnInshame Graham
Beaten-The Conservatives Likely to
Have . Small Majority.

| LONDON, July THE third days polling
| closed without determining in the opinion OF
the lead .rs OF either side what may be the ulsi-
| mate relative position OF the parties. The elec-
| tious yesterday were q surprise to both sides,
losses occurring where success was deemed Ger.
tam, and gains where there was small
| anticipation OF victory. The total returns re.
| ceived up to o'clock this morning show the
election OF lbs Conservatives, 90 Liberals 10 Lib
| erai Unionists and anti-Parnellites Up to this
| time the government has still majority. The
| total Liberal gain is fourteen.
| Among the defeated candidates is Cunning
hame Graham, the socialist John Burns is re-
| turned with majority beyond expectation.
| When the return OF Home Secretary Matthews
| was announced 1t was received with groans.
| When the announcement was made that Joseph
| Chamberlain was elected it was greeted with
| yelis and cries of "Judas." The return OF
| Charles Russell occasioned general congratula.
| tions.
| The most significant feature of the elections
| thus far has been the ruthless way in which the
| voters have dealt with such Liberal nionist
| members az have sought reelection. Sir
| Thomas Switzerland had 697 in Greenock,
Henage 333 in Grimsby, Coghill 14i in
Newcastle Under-Lyme, Fry $50 in Bristol,
and Richard Chamberlain 1902 in IslIngton.
They are all beaten now by an aggregate major.
ity OF over 5000. This unanimi of defeat gath.
ers importance from the fact that there are still
some forty of their kidney asking Scotch and
English rural constituencies to re-elect them,
and outside of Birmingham they are likely to be
answered in the same merciless fashion.
0It was a wonderful thing last night
to hear the wild outburst of cheering
when the news was received at the
National Liberal Club that Richard Cham
berlain had been beaten by something
over 1900 votes. There could hardly have been
more savage exultation if it had been his
brother Joseph who had been overthrown.
There was almost earnest cheering at the
took the result in utter amazement
Some one had provided a magnificent
bouquet to present to Mrs. Stanley when
her husbands triumph should be announced,
but somehow it never reached her. Stanley
himself sat staring blankly. When the figures
were read out and the successful candidate, ac-
cOrdtng to form, rose and made a little speech
moving a vote OF thanks to the returning Off.
GERS, Stanley's agent had to nudge him and ex-
plain that it was his function to second this mo-
ton. At first he refused. but finally he was in-
duced to get up but he only called out curtly,
81 move to second the motion"
The events of Tuesday among the provincial
boroughs were full OF surprises for both sides.
Nobody pretends, for instance, to understand
why Yarmouth, always heavily Tory, should
have Topped SO decisively the other way.
Equally unaccountable is other boroughs' de-
sertion of Liberalism. Only one of these equally
distributed dozen gains or losses evOkes any
special indignation This Is Perth, where, by
stupid vanity and bad temper, two inferior
Liberal candidates have thrown away one of tho
safest Radical seats in Great Britain.
GLASGOW, July 6-Gladstone addressed .
large and highly enthusiastic meeting in Corste-
shire today.
DUBLIN, July GA crowd of ant-Parnellites
today stormed platform from which Liberal
Unionists were addressing a meeting at Stran-
Gather, County Donegal. Among those on the
platform was Mr. Donaldson, justice Of the
peace. He was hit on the head and his skull
fractured. Herdman, Conservative candidate
for East Donegal, and McCormill, Conservative
candidate for North Donegal, were both pain
fully wounded.