The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-21
COURAGE IS TAKEN
BY UN|0N|STS
RESULTS OF POLLING IN ENG
LAND CAUSE PARTY TO
FEEL CHEERFUL.

London. Jan. e0.-The status of the
parties. according to returns received
up tn date in the general election fol-
lows: Unionists. 1863: liberals. 49,:
iaborites, 90: nationaists. So. Returns
received today from s. seats. of which
So were polled Wednesday and Il
Thursday. show the following results:
Unionists. "a: liberals. IS: laborites.
:; nationalists. 9. Gains: Unionists. Is.
Thirteen of the unionist gains were
i'm the county seats, one in Scotland
gain % of the 1SS remaining seats.
the government will be dependent upon
the votes of the nationalists to legis-
late. The oldfashioned English coun-
try people. with their rock-ribbed con-
servatism. their reverence for the no.
bility and their prejudices against the
new fashioned socialism. were heard
from today and they gave decided
boom to the conservative stock. To-
night the unionistS. everywhere have
taken cheer.
The liberal government will return
to power with a less convincing man.
date for its policies from the country
than it counted upon. If the present
tendency prevails among the rest of
the voters the next few days. Its al-
lies. the laborites and nationalist.
practically will hold the balance of
power and the Irish party particularly
will be in ? position to dictate lesls-
lation.
counts Strongly. ...
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lords counted strongly among the
country people, perhaps more strongly
than did the tariff reform. Respect
for the old institutions is more deeply
rooted there than in the cities. with
their labor unions following socialis-
tic innovations, which are regarded
with suspicion in the rural districts
Scotland and Wales, where non-con-
formists abound, stand by the liberal
party.
The results of the polling for IS seats
yesterday were announced today and
A more seats were contested today.
but returns from less than half of the
latter have been reported tonight.
London's last borough gave its YER
dict In favor of a unionist, Westmin-
ster re-electing w. l.. a. Il. Burdctt-
Coutts. with his majority nearly
doubled.
The metropolis has 81 unionsts. &c
liberals and two laboritcs. whereas in
1906. IS liberals We're elected in Lon
don, q unionists and three laborites.
The popular vote in 1906 was: Union
list. EOS, l67: liberal. 25s,slo; labor. .5.-
Az
t.ts In II nj n
don Is unionist. 33s.173; liberal. Pol,
26l: labor. 30.04S. E
Retains Seat.
B. Hanniker Heaton. father of pen
ny postage" retained his Canterbury
seat by only q votes, having an indie
pendent unionist competing for the
party's support Sir James II. Dali
zrel. proprietor of the Reynolds news
paper. keeps his seat for the liberals
Arthur II. Lee. formerly military a.
tache of the British embassy at Wash
ington. retains his seat as a unionis
for the South Fareham division Of
Hampshire. Captain II. Spender Clay
ton, whose wife is a daughter of vii
liam Waldorf Aston. defeated the lat.
liberal member. A. p. Hodges. The
Right Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel. un
der secretary for the home office. was
returned in Yorkshire, North Riding
Cleveland division.
The Right Hon. 4. IRE. attorne,
general. was indorsed by his Linlth
gowshire constituents. Lief Jones
liberal leader of the extreme temper
ance party and largely responsible TO
the recent licensing bill. was defeate,
in the Appleby division of Westmore
land, and the trade" rejoices.
II am quite confident of the result.
said Chancellor Lloyd-George. a
Bangor tonight. Premier AsQuith, a
Fifeshire, declared that one thing wa
certain, the great industrial center
would not give to the new parliamen
any candidate to interfere with tn
system of free trade.
An enormous placard was displaye
at Hampton, with the inscription Il
the radical-socialists government
returned. in Is years England will b
under the power of Germany. Man
of you will be forced into the German
army"
Elections We're held today for
states. one In London. three in Englis
provincial boroughs, Is i'm Englis
counties. eight in Scotland. three il
Wales and six in Ireland.
Reports from only L. of these wer
received tonight.