The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-01-20

London. Jan. 19.-Clear weather and
a host of workers on either sid using
thousands of motor cars and carriages
to convey delayed voters to the sta
tions gave promise of a record poll be-
ing recorded at today's elections for
members of parliament.
In doubtful districts the party or
ganizers were reinforced by an army
of canvassers and few voters escaped.
In all 104 seats were contested to-
day. OF these, 81 were London con-,
stituencies and 73 provincial ~boroughs.
Last year the ~unionists held SO Of the
104, the liberals SO n the laborites
16. The proportion for London alone.
was: Unionists. IT; liberals, IL, and
laborites, 2.
Although both sides preserve a SAN
guine air of confidence, it was evident
today that the conservatives have aban-
doned hope that their party will form,
the mex 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 ~nationalists.
1t must be remembered that Mr.. Bal
four, leader of the opposition in the
house of commons, in a speech some
days ago, said that the great political
issues now in question would not be
settled by one general election and per-
haps not by two. Clearly the EXPIRE
mier accurately measured the situation
n he hopes of the tariff reformers
must now be conferred upon some flu
ture general election.
The stock exchange is inclined to be
disappointed that the u%nionists gains Of
Saturday were not greater and the
dealings this morning caused the loss
of some advances registered last week
in anticipation Of a tory victory.
Consuls fell 51-6. while rails
Kaffir were. f~ractionally weaker on re-
alizations. American securities re-
manned steady at over parity.
London Is Conservative.
If London were England, it would all
be settled now, but London has not been
England for a long time, and is growing
less and less so. London. politically, is
as a country apart-an overwhelming
ocean of cosmopolitan humanity that
thinks London, talks London. dresses
London. 1t also reads Paris, Berlin. the
East, South America, the colonies, per-
haps even Singapore and the south pole
but not the provinces. There are no press
associations which reflect the instant.
daily doings' and feelings of the coun-
ties, even to the extent &c which New,
York hears of Chicago, or Texas of CAL
ifornia. Nor Is the feeling of the man in
the country reflected. The motor in the
gray matter of the man where you go for
the weekend may drive him to action:
may give out heat: but there is no light
attachment; his sentiments do not shine
forth, except when. under some special
impetus. he is Illuminated for the momen-
tary occasion. Then comes the only
chance one has of getting at" him.
Moderate Against Radical.
In London the issues were welded into
one-the moderate man against the radi-
cal. Lord Cromer's speeches were not
without their effect, in view of his change
of attitude since he warned the peers in
his speech in the House of Lords. II
feel very strongly" he said at Sheffield,
that this is going to be a fight to the
finish. in which on the one side are ranged
all the anti-conservative classes In the
country, with a strong socialist tail tackled
on to them, m on the other side those
who are conservative, in which term, I
think, ought to be included moderate lib
erals" To prevent the disruption of the
empire to maintain the union with Ire
land, to secure adequate national defence,
to secure the continued existence OF the
Church Of England-these were some Of
the reasons for which he asked. unionist
votes. Such a speech shows how mixed
and broad the issues have become.
The Spectator. which in 1906 urged every
~unionist free trader to vote for the liber-
ais, is now begging every voter reclaim-
able Dy reason ana mOQeratlOn 10 save
the union and democracy" and in the
course of omment on this the powerful
Daily Telegraph refers to the truly awful
consequence involved In the renewal Of
q vote of confidence In the government, -
compared with which the fiscal contro-
versy is but a family ~squabble." This
newspaper also prints such a paragraph
as this: Should the radicals win, there
Is but too great a likelihood that the en-
pire will disappear and the United King
dom sink to the level Of a ffth-rate Eu-
ropen Power Day by day appear para
graphs announcing the detection from the
liberals OF this or that man of promi-
nence, but, Of course, to the one who mat
ters enough to print there are dozens, yes
thousands, of the humble who will not get
into the papers, but will get into the bal
lot-box.
Thu ferocity of the campaign has been
astonishing. For a few days after the re-
lection of the budget by the House Of
Lords a metropolitan radical newspaper
printed its main political news and COM
ment under the headline THE Revolu-
ton over a speech by Lloyd George ap-
pears In a digniied journal the line En-
~couraging Class Hatred" In another
newspaper the speeches of the previous
day begin In a column entitled 1.-THE Cam
paign of ~Calumny-New Slanders and Old
Lies.
WAR SLooP WRECKED.
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