The San Francisco call., 1910-01-17
LIBERAL PARTY
LIKELY TO WIN
Election Returns Seem to Indi-
cate Return of Cabinet With
Good Majority
Lloyd=George Says England Is
Against Government by
Peers and Beer


1 opportunity for calm reflection over the
prospects of both parties striving for
control of the government The great
est animation prevailed today at the
clubs and other rendezvous of poll
ticians, and Saturdays results were dis
/ cussed from every possible viewpoint.
Although both sides preserve a san
guine air of confidence. it was evident
today that the conservatives have
/ abandoned hope that their party Will
form the next government The ut
most they dare to expect is that the
/ liberal majority will be so reduced in
] the next parliament as to place the
/ liberals at the mercy of the national
! lists.
UNIoNIsTS ABANDON HOPE
1t must be remembered that Arthur
! Balfour, leader of the opposition in the
house of commons. in 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 former
! premier measured the situation accu-
rately. and the hopes of the tariff re-
| formers must now be centered upon
some future general election.
An estimate made today by a well
! Informed unionist, based on Saturdays
! pollings gives the liberals and laborites
clear majority of 80 or 100 over all
parties. which would provide the liberal
! government with good working ma
| jority. Many unionists, however. are
| less dependent. They do not believe
! that the liberals will finish the cleo
| tion with as good record.
RESULTS PLEASE LIBERALS
At the National liberal club great
! satisfaction is expressed over the re-
suits so far. Further losses are eX-
| pected at Glasgow and a reduced vote
| in the English counties where the
! farmers would be likely to benefit from
tariff reform and where the landed
interests have great influence.
The pollings tomorrow, which include
81 London constituencies and 81 provin-
cial boroughs. will provide a beeter in
deX as to how the country is going
Should the liberals retain the hold on
the metropolis which they gained in
1906 their prospects viii be regarded as
much roster than they appear now.
AT present to sum up. nothing could
be predicted with absolute certainty
but only great increase in the union
ist gains over Saturday, when they
gained only half the number of seats
they had counted on, will give them
victory.
LLOYD-GEORGE Is CONFIDENT
If the unionists continue to gain at
the same ratio the liberals still Will re-
tain majority of about 80. Chancellor
Lloyd George said tonight:
I'VE are winning. England is declar
ing empha tically against government
by the peers and beer. The north is
Overwhelming gly with u.s.
John Burns, president of the local
government board said:
"Al things considered in the fight
between those who have too much and
those who have too little, yesterdays
results are exceedingly good. London
has done much better than l expected
In my Judgment it has done supremely
well. To win the seats that have been
lost would have required almost super
human efforts
LABOR LEADER WELCOMED
VIII Crooks. we'll known labor leader,
who was in Australia when the budget
crisis began and has been racing
against time to reach London so that
he might take part in the elections, ar
rived tonight. He represents Woolwich
in the house of commons and was re-
ceived by his constituency with re-
markable demonstrations.
Among the interesting members elect
ed yesterday were the Rev. c. Sylvester
Horne, congregational minister, who
won on the liberal ticket at Ipswich,
and AlIneric 1dSel, uulOHISl cdH-
didate for Cambridge, whose wife is
daughter of the late William c. Whit
ney.
CHURCHILL PREDICTS VICTORY
"The battle is. we'll maintained at
every point" said Winston Spencer
Churchill tonight. Great victories can
not be won without some slaughter.
Manchester is magnificent; London is
steadfast and the tories are on lee
shore and every tack or change of
weather will bring them nearer the
reef"
AS forecasted, the tremendous alb
sorption of the country in the election
struggle brought unprecedented
number of electors to the polls. An
average OF 81 per cent of registered
electors recorded their votes.
In London the II seats contested gave
an aggregate increase of 1885 in the
unionist vote and a slight decrease to
the liberals. while the provinces in
creased the unionist vote 1922 and the
liberal vote only 4,513.
This increase is a source of the great
est satisfaction to the unionist press,
as showing the rapid growth in favor
of tariff reform. Editorials in the morn
ing papers take up an attitude of tenn
pered enthusiasm on both sides regard
ing Saturdays results as "a good begin
ming" which should serve to provoke
the adherents of the respective parties
to renewed energy
representative example on the
tory side is the Daily Telegraph,
which says that results on Saturday
were a good days work, alike in what
was actually accomplished and in its
encouragement and stimulus to further
energy on the part of those fighting
for the cause of liberty justice and
prosperity against the iniquitous on
slaughts of grasping and rapacious
junta of reyolutionists."
VIEWS OF PRESS
The Telegraph considers the progress
of tariff reform in the last four years
positively astounding and says that the
urgent business of the unionists Is to
press the advantage and convert the
partial defeat of the enemy into COM
plete rout.
The Chronicle, typical of liberal
opinion, says: The election of 1906
was a landslide. Nothing short of a
corresponding landslide could have de-
feated the liberals and Saturdays
polling shows that there is not going
to be such a landslide nor anything ap-
preaching it, There is, indeed. GER
tain swing of the pendulum since 1906,
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