Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-17
0SIONISTS CAIN EIGHTEEN
First Round in Fight for Control Of
Parliament Not Decisive.
LIBERALS WILL PROBABLY WIN
Oppouition Expected to Gain twenty
Mae seats observation-disclosures
OF Elected Candidates Are
Greatly Reduced.

LONDON. Jan. 16.-At the close Of the
general elections today the standing Of
the various parties including uncon-
tested seats was as follows:
Unionists, 40; liberals, 81; laborites. 81
~,natipnalists, 5; unionist gains l6; llberal
gains, Q; labor gains over liberals Il no
change, 50.
on the twelve seats contested in Lon
don the liberals mold seven. the unionists.
fivet three Of the latter being gains In
North Lambeth, Brixton and Fulham.
In the provinces the unionists gained
Southwest Manchester, Stalybridge, sails
bury. Rochester, Burnley. two seats in.
Davenport, Cambridge, Yarmouth, Glod-
cester. wolvefhampton West and South
Wednesday, and two seats in Bath.
Tbs liberals won Manchester, North
west Darlington, and Grimsby. The labor
gain was in East Manchester.
First Ro6nd Not Decisive.
The first engagement in the fight
for tariff reform, a great navy and
the supremacy of the lords as against
free trade, reform of the House of
Lords and home rule ended tonight
with neither party In a commanding po-
sition. The results of the polling today
tend to, confirm the forecast that the lib
erals wa, retains control or the govern
ment with a gfeatly reduced majority.
The unionists have gained an encouraging
number of seats, although less than the
twenty-nine which they expected to take
away from the liberals out Of the seventy
four balloted for.
The popular vote goes strongly against
the liberals. The members of that party
who hold seats won them today by ma
%jorlties ranging from 30 to co per cent below
their majorities in 1906. except in a few
boroughs where special conditions figured
in the campaign. The popular votes polled
b. the liberals for the twelve London seats
show a tronger hold on power than in
the province. Many of the London Dor
oughs were labor districts. OF these the
unionists carried five, three being captured
from the liberal column, but by small
margins.
Manchester and Birmingham give heavy
unlonist gains. Birmingham has been
strongly conservative. largely the result
Of Joseph Chamberlain's crusade for pro-
lection. and today the unionists carried
the city solidly by Increased maiorities,
nearly 5000 larger than in 1906.
Sweeping Change I'm London.
In Manchester unionists increased their
votes, for while the liberals still have
five Of the six seats, the liberal majori-
ties were decreased nearly 5000. The
most sweeping change in London was in
Fulham borough, where the middle class
population went enthusiastically for tariff
reform, giving w. Hayes Fisher, the un-
ionist candidate, q majority of 1000 in
this borough. In the last election the seat
went to\a liberal by 600.
Davenport, where the big navy issue
wuVaR -
majority of 1900 and returned two union
fists by 500, Sir j. Jackson and Sir C..
KInloch Cooke. Sir Henry Norman, the
liberal journalist, who is well known in
America and who recently was appointed
assistant postmaster general, was beaten
at WolVerhampton South by a small ma
Jority. In order to retain his place in the
cabinet he will be nominated for another
borough.
Aston and Durand Beaten.
waldorf Astor and Sir II. Mortimer
Durand, the former ambassador to the
United States, who contested the two Ply
mouth seats as unionists, were defeated
but cut down that city's liberal majority
from 2.sO7 in 1906 to GAG.
Davidson DalEiel, a promoter and at one
time conspicuous In Wall street, running
on the unionist ticket turned out j. H.
SeaVerns. q liberal and former American
from his seat for the Birthstone division Of
Lambeth.
w. J~oynson-Hicks, the unionist who beat
Winston Spencer Churchill in the Man
chester bye election of 1908 by 429 votes
loses his seat to Sir G. Kent, liberal. by
7Ss. The Rt, Hon. G, Windham, who will
be governor general of Canada IL the
unionists take on the government, carried
his seat by a slightly Increased majority.
The liberals took away a thousand votes
from Sir Gilbert Parker in Gravesend dis.
trict. but he retains his seat as a unlonist
The famous barrlster, Rufus S. Isaacs
keeps leading for the liberals by a small
majority, but Russell, a prominent shir
owner whose face was familiar at tht
recent peace conference, loses Gloucester
to the u%nionist. II, Terrell. J. T. Lincoln
liberal, ousted IL. Pike Pease. one Of tn,
most prominent unionists, from Darling
ton by % votes, while Premier Asquith',
brother-ln-law, Sir e. Tenant, lost hi.