The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-29
CONSERVATIVES
WIN VICTORY.
Returns From English Elections
Show Big Majority.
Party Secures 43 Out of SIS
Members
ELECTED THUS FAR.
'LECTED THUS FAR.
Joseph Chamberlain Comes i'm
Without Opposition.

| London, Sept. 29.-One hundred and
sixty-seven constituencies returning
1 one-fourth of the membership of the
| house of commons made their nomina
| tions today. Up to l o'clock this after
noon, IS members had been elected I'M
opposed comprising 43 Conservatives, 8
Unionists, Liberals and 2 NationaIsts.
| Among the interesting personalities on
| the government side returned today
without opposition were Joseph Cham
berlain, the secretary Of state for the
colonies, CWest Birmingham). George
Wyndham, the parliamentary secretary
for the war office (DoveD, Charles L.
Ritchey, the president of the board of
trade (Croydon), Sir John c. r. Clomb,
| (Great Yarmouth), Jesse Ceilings, under
secretary for the home department
| Berdesley division of Birmingham). Sir
| Francis Sharp (Wigan), Joseph Powell
| Williams, the financial secretary of the
war Office South Birmingham, Colonel
Sir Charles E. H. Vincent, the founder
of the United Empire Trade League
Central Shefield), John Henniker Hea-
ton Canterbury, Charles Beilby Stuart
Wortley, formerly under secretary of
state for the home department Q1aliam
division of Shefield), and Sir Edward
Albert Sassoon. The five Liberals re-
turned unopposed include William Court
Gully speaker of the house of commons,
(Carlisle), and Sir Henry BARLEY Fow-
ler, formerly under secretary of state
for the home department and secretary
of state of India CEaSt Wolverham ptOn)-
An interesting feature of the election
sthe intervention in the colonies, for
the first time in the election OF the
motherland- A dispatch from Hopert'
Tasmania, announces the adoption of a
resolution by the Tasmaniar assembly,
proposing a joint Australian cablegram
congratulating Mr.. Chamberlain on the
hoping the electors of Great Britain will
ennpha tica1ly insist the fruits of VIC
tory being effectually secured.
STILL MUCH UNCERTAINTY
New York, Sept. ga dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
Public Interest is now centered upon
the elections, to the exclusion of every
thing else There is still a good deal Of
uncertainty about nominations for as
many as eight county divisions but the
results of the uncOnteSted elections Will
not differ materially from those in 1895.
The UniOniStS then had, outside OF Ire
land, majority of 110 on uncontested
seats. They cannot have a majority of
more than $50 now on uncontested seats,
outside of Ireland and it will probably
be cut down below 120.
The Liberals have not been without
resources for bringing candidates into
the field and Herbert Gladstone has
Liberal imperialists, who are prominent
figures in the Liberal campaign. Capt.
Lambton, at Newcastle is the most con-
spicuous candidate on the Liberal side
and his speeches are delivered with the
authority of the quarterback and are
supported by his unique experience ON
the ramparts of Ladysmith. Even at
Northampton the imperialist lion and
the Radical lamb are lying down to-
gether and at Caithness DR.. Clark is
hotly opposed by a Liberal imperia1ist.
The Unionists have been disconnected
by this sudden access of Liberal spirit
and find the opposition candidates in
the majority of the contested boroughs
and districts as fully committed as
themselves to the annexation of the
Dutch republics. The effect would be
paralleled if half of the electors and
candidates for congress on the Bryan
side were suddenly to accept Republican
principles of finance and McKinley's pol
icies for Cuba and the Philippines.
Whatever may be the Unionist ma
jority in the next parliament there will
be no reversal of policies in South AZ
rica for the Liberal imperialists will be
in control Of the opposition benches