The herald., 1895-07-15
THE ELECTION IN ENGLAND
Liberals Are Faring Badly
in the Returns
SIR william HARC0URT'S DEFEAT
Attributed to His Stand on
Local Option
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Uniouists Get Seventy.Six Seats With
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Unionists Get Seventy.Six Seats With
out Fight
The McCarthyites Yield a Seat Without
Any Contest
The narquis Of Lorne, Who Beat Him,
Called a Poplnjay-Other
Political Notes
Associated Press Special Wire.

LONDON, July l4.-S1r WuIam Ver-
non Harcourt's defeat in Derby was the
sensation in political circles tonight. 1t
is admitted on all sides that the Liberals
are beginning very badly. Of ITO mem
bers thus far elected 96 are Unionists, 10
Liberals and Parnellites. Eight Liber-
ais seats have been captured by the Un-
ionists. and the Radicals have captured
one Unionist seat that at Perth. AS far
as outward appearances go, the elections
are causing little excitement in London.
There are few idlers in the Strand.
where the Graphic displays representa-
tion of Lord Salisbury and Lord Rose
berry climbing ladders to indicate the
course OF the election returns.
The moral effect of Sir William Har-
couit's defeat will be great. as even the
most sanguine Conservative did not ex-
pect Liberal majoriy of 1900 to be con-
vered into Unionist majority o! HOO.
While Sir William Harcourt Jared so
badly Hon. A. j. Balfour, the new first
lord of the treasury, who is to succeed Sir
William as leader of the house of COM
mons, nearly doubled his majoriy in Man.
chester. After the result had been an
nounced IN Derby at midnight, Sir Will
lam Harcourt with his wife, drove to the
Liberal headquarters and made speech,
saying he had been defeated too often to
be either elated il successful or depressed
by reverse. But he did not wish to
conceal the magnitude OF the defeat
which had fallen upon his colleagues and
Sir william Harcourt's defeat is gener.
ally attributed to the prominence which
ne gave to the local veto, or local option
nj easure.
The Sunday Observer. Unionist. points
out that yesterdays returns OF unopposed
candidates are as significant as the re-
suits of contested elections. Seventy-six
seats have been handed over to the Union.
lists without fight, while the Liberals
were allowed to retain only five uncon
tested seats.
The ParneIlite total of unopposed re-
turns has been increased by the
uncontested election of John DAILY from
Limerick. Thus the McCarthyites have
yielded without contest a seat which
they were in actual possession OF. Judg-
ing both by the result of the contest and
the numbers which the Radicals had al
lowed to 60 by default. there can be but
little doubt of the final result.
r. 2. O'Connor's Sun says that yester-
days results were keen disappointment
but that 1t does not follow by any means
that the whole country is going against
them.
1.-THE substitution of popinjay like
'.for a politician so esteemed and a man
of science so honored as Sir Henry Ros-
coe, is discrsdi.able to Manchester"
Tomorrow fifty more seats will be de
cided, including many in London.
LONDON, July 15.-The Daily News,
the Liberal organ. says Of the elections:
A closer examination of Saturday $
6ou to bnO loco diooot1raoinO N fh hap N
they would seem. The result in Derby
surprised even the local Tories. Sir
William Harcourt and his colleagues were
hoated vut on beer. In other constituen
cies the efforts Of Republicans and brew
ers, with the alliance of the militant Sec
the same result There is plenty of cause
for the Tories triumph. But there is
little cause for Liberal encouragement
and none whatever for despair. We are
used to a bad beginning. There is not a
step of Liberal progress which is not
taken over the stepping stones Of defeat.
The Chronicle ascribes the Liberal de-
misrepresentation OF the government s
policy on Indian. cotton duties which were
made in leaflets sent broadcast through
the country. The Chronicle says:
"We coner atulate the Unionists upon
having drawn first blood at the empire $
cost. They have played anti-impeTial and
anti-national games for votes of Liberals
and have failed to win two seats, OWING
in some measure t' the action of the in
dependent labor party and the Socialist
federation, who gained no result for
themselves. Their polls were small and
contemptible.
The Standard, the Conservative organ.
sees In the results a remarkable testi-
mony TO the growth of Conservative sem
timent in the larger towns.
Archbishop Walsh wrote letter which
was read in all the Dublin churches yes
terday asking for prayers that the spirit
of dssension may be banished. and add
ing that the only prospect OF the country
is u national ruin and disgrace II an end
is not speedily put to the feud and dis
sensions which are going far to make Ire
land a word throughout the world.
The Times says: The unopposed re-
election of DAILY from Limerick is a Sig
nificant reminder of the sentiment which
animates all sections of the Irish Nation
alsts and anuiParnellites. In their own
constituency they shrank from opposing
SD popular a criminal. The Times then
proceeds to recite tile charges upon which
DAILY was convicted. The election of
course, it says. was not meant seriously,
but was only intedned as Il demonstration
OF sympathy with dynamite patriot and
demonstration of hostility to British law.
Both parties know that convict under
sentence is not capable OF being elected q
member OF parlia ment. The debate, how
ever, when the house takes notice of
Daiy's disabilities will afford the subdi-
visions of the Irish Nationalists and their
British allies an interesting opportunity
of expressing their views on patriotic
felony.
After dealing with wire. pulling and
clerical influence, the Times concludes as
follows: American journalists. meanwhile.
appear to be beginning to learn what the