The age-herald., 1900-10-05
 CONSERVATIVES
 MAKE GREAT GAINS Latest Returns frnm the English
 Elections. WAR PARTY IS SUSTAINED Captured Twelve Seats as Against Three by the Liberals-Y Record = The Rural Dis
 tricts to Hear From !.
WAR PARTY IS SUSTAINED

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 London, October 5, ? a. m.-The 'khaki l pollings tell the tale of increased Minister l alst and diminished Liberal majorities. Tn returns from the rural districts today (Fri day) and tomorrow may do something t rehabilitate the Liberals, but the result 1 thus far have fully justified MT. Chamber l lain and the party organizers who ar l backing the movement in their choice 0 | the moment to dissolve Parliament. Fey l will doubt that an appeal to the country month or two earlier would have produced an even more remarkable Unionist out burst. Nevertheless, the Ministerialist' | may already congratulate themselves oI being returned with an increased majority Yesterday the Conservatives gained twelve seats, as against three gained by the Lib erals.
 The workingmen of the country have re piled in a very decided voice in favor o the war and of the annexation of the re- publics. Even the Liberal Scot is at las feeling the full force of the shock, the Glasgow Tories being as much astonished
  in winning two seats Andrew Dryburgt Provand, who was defeated by the Black Friars division, has set for Glasgow in thC Liberal interests since 1886, and the Bridge ton division was Sir George Otto Treve lyn's old seat Both had long been Libera strongholds.
 The result in Liverpool and other indus
 trial districts tell similar story of in creased unonist majorities. MT. Chamberlain, who was listening to
 the results over the telephone, sent the
 Following message to the people of Bir-
 mingham: This has been a good days work for the Empire"
 London itself felt the full tide of the Un- ionist victory. The Liberal representation from the metropolis will not amount to more than seven or eight out of sixty-two members Indeed the isolated Liberal sue cesses only serve to enhance the sweeping nature of the Unionist triumph In all di- rections the anti-war candidates have been defeated. Even MT. Cremers success al Haggerston is doubtful, as a recount has been demanded.
 Londoners were not slow last evening to testify to their delight. Wherever the re- suits were displayed, crowds collected to
 
 fayorites. In various polling districts the candidates appeared at windows or drove about, receiving tremendous oyations. At midnight returns showed the total number of elected to be S97 with the rela- tive strength of parties follows Ministerialists, 22S; Liberals, including Laborites 72 Nationalists 45. The Conservatives have gained altogether twenty-one seats and the Liberals fourteen The Daily Mail describes the elections as the result of the pro-Boers,' and the debace of little Englandism. John Morley, the Liberal leader who was | formerly chief secretary of Ireland, has written a supplementary manifesto 1T which he says he withdraws no word oi what he has said about the South African war and adds:
 l q regard it as a baneful incident of 8 ! retrograde policy. The incorporation of the 1 two Boer states Is one of the most eyi blunders of our history
 | Only one of the seven boroughs of Bir l mingham was contested but the Liberal: l organized an aggressive campaign to talk, l one seat in MT. Chamberlains city. H' 1 took an active part In the canvass in be l half of Sir J. Benjamin Stone, Conserya 1 tive candidate for East Birmingham, anC 1 the victory of the latter with a majority o 1 2154 is considered in part a personal tri umph for the Secretary of State for th' l Colonies. In the Scotland division of Liver l pool T. P O'Connor, who has represente, l that constituency since 1895, was reelected 1 In the other Liverpool boroughs the Con l servatiyes gained largely. In the centra 1 division of Leeds, Gerald William Balfour l Chief Secretary for Ireland and brother o l the First Lord of the Treasury, defeated l his Liberal opponent.
 | The Conservatives gained a seat in thu l east division of Leeds, which was repre- l scented in the late Parliament by T. B l I.euty, Liberal. H. s. Cautley, Conserva l tive, was elected.
 l Another Conservative gain has been mad | at Burnley, where w. P Mitchell, Conserv ative defeated Sir Philip Stanhope, Liberal l At Haniey. Arthur M. Heath, Conserva l tive, defeated Enoch Edwards, Liberal l The Liberals hold Whitechapel, where on l of the closest of the London contests ha l been fought.
 erals carried Whiteehapel by a majorit, ! of II. Lord Salisbury supplied carriage 1 10 take MT. Kyd's Conservative voters t 1 the polls, and Lord Roberts according u 1 the Standard sent MT. Kyd an encouraging ! message.
 l In the other East London boroughs tn, l Conservatives heavily increased their votes 1 gaining seats at Stepney and Hoxton. II l the former borough Major w. E. Gordon re | ceived 27S3 votes as against HIS cast for thu l Liberal candidate, w. S. Steadman, of tn l Barge Builders trade union, who captured l the seat by a majority of twenty votes a l the bye-election in March, 1S9S | At West Southwark Sir A. J. Newton 1 Conservative, Lord Mayor of London, wa | defeated by Richard K. Causton, Liberal | who has represented the constituency sine
 1888. The MinisteriAlists hive gained tw l seats in Glasgow-the same of the Black | friars and Bridgeton divisions
 l At Portsmouth the Conservatives hay | also gained two seats.
 In the central division of Edinburgh, Di | A. Conan Doyle, Conservative, was de | feated by G. M. Brown, Liberal.
 South Edinburgh was carried by the Lib l eral Unionists, as in 1885, In tha contes l their majority was 97. Today Arthu Dewar, Liberal, who won the seat the bye | election last year, was deSeated by Ill vote by Sir A. N. Agnew, Liberal Unionist.
 Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Liberal, carrie l West Leeds by majority of 521 votes, re
 ceivng 7O23 votes as against 6522 cast fo
 his Conservative opponent, Col T. W
 Harding.