The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-01-18
.BR|TISHELECT|ONS
Conservatives Give Up the
Contest.
LIBERAL MAJORITY ABOUT 90
Protectionists Claim Andrew Car
negie Contributed S5,00O,0O0 to
Fight Protection in Inter
est Of Steel Trust
LIBERAL MAJORITY ABOUT 90

London, Jan. H.. Sunday gave a
welcome respite from the strenuous
work at the election stations. and an
opportunity for calm reflection over
the prospects of both parties striving
10 gain control Of the government
The greatest animation prevailed at
the clubs and other rendezvous OF pol
iticians. and Saturdays results were
excitedly discussed from every posi-
BILE viewpoint.
Although both sides preserve a san
suine air Of confidence. /, was evident
that the conservatives have abandoned
hope that their party will form the
next government The utmost they
dare to expect is that the Liberal ma
jority will be so reduced In the next
parliament as to place the Liberals at
the mercy of the Nationalist.
An estimate was made after a care
full calculation by a well Informed
Unionist based on Saturdays pollings
and gives the Liberals ard Laborites
a clear majority OF 80 or ~ over all
parties. which would provide the Lib
cral government with a good working
majority Many of the Unionists how
ever. are less respondent They do not
believe that the Liberals will finish
the election with so good a record
as this.
Small Show For Urionists.
At present. To sum up. nothing
could be predicted with absolute GER
tainty. but only very great increase
In the Unionist gains over Saturdays
results. when they gained only half the
number of seats they had counted on
will give them victory. II the Union
lists continue to gain in the same ratio
the Liberals will still retain ma
FORTY somewhere in the noighbOrhood
OF ninety
Chancellor Lloyd-Georg' said
1--WE are winning En- land is de-
claring cmphatically aga INST govern
ment by tho peers and beer The
north is overwhelmingly with us"
John Burns. president OF the local
government board said:
"All things considered in the fight
between those who have too much and
those who have too little. Saturdays
results are exceedingly good. Lon
don has done much better than I ex-
pected. In my judgment il has done
supremacy we'll To win the seats that
have beea lost would have required al
most suporhuman efforts
That Andrew Carnegie has contrib
uted secretly over e1.OO0 600 5000
000) to the cause of the LIBERAL party
for the purpose Of fighting a protec-
tive tariff COR Great Britain in the In
terest OF the American eel trust is
the story freely circulated by the
British Protectionist parlv to support
its contention that the free traders are
really the tools of Ensla1d's bitterest
commercial rivals.
Lord Claude Hamilton standing for
the Kensirgton division as a Tory,
ventured to publicly assert that his
free trade opponent, CO 9tain Macll-
yaine. a retired naval Off ar was hav-
ing his campaign finarced by "an
American multimilionai~e who re-
Quilted British hospitality by dumping
his highly protected steel products
upon our shores
In response Captain Macllvalne stig-
matted Lord Hamilton's statement as
being absolutely untrue. whereupon
his rival replied that the tharge might
have been taken as banter In spite
OF this the story has bee most indu~
triously disseminated. arl it has oh
tanned many believers.