Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-18
UNlONISTS GAIN
NINETEEN SEATS
GOVERNMENT PARTY EXCEEDS
EXPECTATIONS
LIBERAL POWER SEEMS ASSURED
OF CONTINUANCE
Scotland and Wales Still to Poll, and
Are SolidIy for Incumbent
Party-Day Yields
Surprises
Associated Press1


of today's polling in the general cleo
ton the parties stood as follows:
Unionists, 90; Liberals, n; Laborites,
16; Nationalists, 13. Net gain for the
Unionists, 30.
The government Jared much better
today than the most ardent supporters
expected. The Unionists gained 10
seats, the Liberals and the Lakorites
/, making q net gain for the UniOniSts
for the day of IA, one less than they
gained in fewer elections on Saturday.
This practically returns the return of
the Liberal power with a fair majority,
for among the places still to poll are
those in Scotland and Wales, which
always are solidly Liberal.
There were few surprises today.
Some expected that John Burns, presi-
dent of the local board, would be de-
feated, but Burns himself never had
any doubt.
other state officials who had to fight
for their seats and were successful
We're Augustine Birrell, chief secretary
for Ireland and c. e. Hibhouse, finan
cial secretary to the treasury in Bristol,
and DR.. T. j. MacNamara, secretary to
the admiralty, in Camberwell. Their
majorities were greatly reduced.
Majorities Reduced
This happened all through the coun
try, the huge majorities secured in 1905
showing big reductions in almost all
cases.
Many Liberals who became members
of the house of commons by the grace
of the landslide that year have been
sent back to private life.
Among them is Homer Greenwood,
q Canadian, who represented York and
was considered a prominent candidate
for high office. Another Canadian,
Joseph Martin, former premier of Brit
ish Columbia, was more successful
winning the seat for st. Pancreas, east.
Other prominent members defeated
included l.. G. Chiozza- Money, apostle
Of free trade who lost his seat for
North Paddington, and Will Crooks,
labor leader, for Woolwich. Sir II.
Robson, Liberal, for North Kensington,
failed to get a majority, as also did Sir
John Gorst, a former minister and at
one time member of the fourth party,
whose leading. spirits were A. j. Bal
four and Lord Randolph Churchill.
On the other side Lord r. Cecil and
George Stewart Boles, who ran as free
trade Unionists, failed to overthrow
Philip Snowden, Laborite, and Sir
Thomas Barclay Blackburn.
Doctors Defeat Him
Doctors had much to do with the
defeat of Claud Hay Unionist, in the
Horton DIVISION of Shoreditch His
OpDOnent was Dr. =. 8QulSOll, IL IdIIlOuS
consulting surgeon. Hay on the plat
FORM made dsparaging remarks about
the profession, and as a result the
whole fraternity turned out to assist
DR. Addison.
Unionist leaders who ran today in
Guiding A. J. Balfour, A Bonar Law,
Walter Hume Long and Sir William
Bull hold their seats by increased ma
jorities.
The polling was remarkably close
however, in many constituencies. H.
b. Duke, noted barrister, for example
won Exeter from the Liberals by the
narrow majority of tWenty-siX, while
in the Beacham division of Camberwell
Henry Cubitt Gooch, who secured a
majority of more than 1000 in the re-
cent by-election, retains his seat by a
bare hundred. One Liberal retained
his seat by a majority of only ten.
The general view of today's battle
bears out the forecast. The north is
solid for the government; the mid
lands section, and especially Birming-
ham, favors tariff reform.
The victory of the Unionists at Wall
sail points to an extension of the in
fluence of Joseph Chamberlain.
The metropolis, which was expected
to make a clean turnover, is display
ing a remarkably slight variation in
representation, although the Liberals
are not returning the majorities of
1906.