The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-25
Winston Churchill Unseated as Member of Parlia~ ment by Unionist
 Candidate.
ASQUITH'S NEGLECT FATAL
His Failure to Endorse Church. i'll Accepted as Nullifying Guarantee of Irish Home Rule-Suffragettes
 Fought Him.

Manchester April 24.-To-day the
 North West division of Manchester, by
 the heaviest poll cast in twenty years
 reversed It's verdict of 1906 and by
 majority of i20 votes unseated as it's
 member of parliament, Winston Spenc-
 CT Churchill. liberal, who has just been
 made president of the board of trade 1 in the new AsquIth cabinet In that ayear Mir. Churchill brilliantly wrested
 the seat from W. Johnson Hicks, 6 unionist hls chief opponent of to-day saThree candidates stood for election,
 land the result was as follows:
 W Johnson Hicks. unlonist, 5,n7.
 Winston Spencer Churchill. liberal, % Mir. Irving, socialist, 276.
 The defeat of MT. Churchill is
 crushing blow to the prestige of the \ government and the young and confid- lent minister which Is bound to have a amarked influence on several other i'm Eipending bye-elcctlons. There will be .4 no difficulty fin finding for MT. Church H8ill safe seat elsewhere. The liberals s51lnay derive from their defeat to-day f ,what consolation is possible from the fact that prior to 1906 the North West 3nivision seat was held consistently by
 fhe conservatives.
 'I Among the many influences and cross 4trurrents at work in this extraordin- vhry contest, 1t is not wholly beyond !, yreason to suppose that Mir. Asaulth 1himself was partly responsible for the slefeat of his young colleague. It is 1. .fustomary for the leader of party 10 sned letter wishing success to any ' of his party seeking election To parliament In this case Mir. Bal { -Four sent MT. Johnson Hicks an unus- lally long and adroit letter which S71loubtless very materially assisted the campaign. On the other hand {. Dor some as yet unexplained reason. MT. %Asquith omitted to follow this custom, SaHhough he sent eltter to Walter Run S'imsn, president of the board of odu- 7: ,:Hatlon, who on Thursday contested and < won the seat for Dewsbury by ma Id3fprlty of LAS votes. It is impossible n1io imagine that the omission in the -~5sssase of Mir. Churchill was not inten- %4lonal; but in any case lt gave tho ssN3nionists an opening to insnuate that =-sshe premier either disapproved of Mir, tN N3hurchll's tactics in pledgng the gov tA{frnment on the Irish home rule and UsFther questions or that he would not z ssse unwilling to see the over-confldent &s oung minister receive a check #7 Contrary to expectation the socialist I% ote was so small that 1t had practi- xSbsly no effect on the election. Probably Gehore damage was inflicted on the llb- lklsfal cause by the activity of the suf- R ragettes. who worked with the utmost
 lhergy against MT. Churchill. It Is <.I so supposed that David bloyd-George VHI hancellor of the exchequer by break 3 Ag the custom that cabinet ministers 9 ostain personally from canvassine II ections, gave many votes of waverers
 W the unionists, while Mr. Redmond's \ Twice to the Roman Catholics to sup. brt Mir Churchill may have come toe
 te, the English Roman Catholic
 Eieets having conducted a very viz. < II ous campaign against MT. Churchill Ind the governments education bill.
 HINT. Johnson Hicks in an interview " ter the election attributed his victory ay kainly to the education and licensing
 Ills.
 fThere were scenes of intense excite \ IN sent here tonight when the result o
 se lection was announcd to an enorm Y ls crowd. Mir. Churchill was the frs congratulate his opponent. Mrs
 vprnwalis- West, MT Churchills moth
 was standing at his side. Later il I6,N e evening MT. Churchill said In
 leech Tt is useless to disguise tn let that we have had very heaV,
 ow. It's consequences will be gray
 i'd serious to all whose interests ar M lterwoven with the principle of ire 5s ade."
 k Mir. Churchill also complained bitter l, of what he declared to be an unfai s. huence entered against him by cer jt lin London newspapers.
 W Dundee, April 24.It is reported tha v e liberal leaders here tonight sent k2M egram to Winston Spencer Churchill M Nitng him to contest the scat in par ment made vacant by the eleVato the peerage of Rt Hon. Edmun yN bbertson, liberal, who has held tn
 sekAt since 1885,