The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-17
AST0R IS DEFEATED.
But He Made Big Inroads on the OPP
position Majority.

London. Jan. 1.-THE known results
| of the election to the new parliament,
today's counting of the ballots not hav-
ing been completed, are as follows:
Observation-Disclosures, A.
observation-disclosures, 81; Irish Ma
tionalists, 10; Labor, 6.
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 and the laboriteS
16. The proportion for London alone
was: Unionists II. Liberals II and
laborites 2. The city of London itself
is quite safe for the uniOniStS and A.
j. Balfour and Sir F. G. Banbury
doubtless will receive majorities even
larger than they had at the last cleo
ton.
Burns Has Hard Fight.
There are a number of prominent
members of the last house, however,
whose seats are in danger. John
Burns, president of the local govern
ment board, is having a hard fight
against A. Shirley Bonn, the Unionist
candidate for Battersea and Clap
ham, Battersea division. In 1909
Burns had majority of 1900, but
that was abnormal his majority at
the previous election having been only
254
J. C. MCNAMARA. Liberal candidate
for Camberwell, North division; A.
Bonar Law, Unionist, for Camberwell
Dulwich division and w. H. Long,
Unionist, for the Strand, are quite Sc
cure. The Liberals doubtless will lose
Greenwich and other London districts.
Among the provincial seats con-
tested today are Blackburn held at
present by Philip Snoden, Labor. one
of the leaders of the Labor party;
Bristol, where A. Birrell, Labor, and
G. Hobhouse hold seats and in which
districts both sides profess confidence
of making a clean sweep; Hull, Leads,
New Castle-on-Tyne, Sheffield, York
and Portsmouth, where the Unionists
are depending upon Admiral Lord
Charles Reresford, the candidate and
their denunciation of the Liberal nav
al policy, to reverse the big Liberal
majority returned at the last election.
The candidacy of the socialist nomi-
nee will assist them.
Two WEIGH and four Scottish Dor
oughs, all heretofore Liberal strong
holds, will also poll today.
Disappointment on Change.
The stock exchange is inclined to
be disappointed that the Unionist
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. Consols fell 5-16 while home
rails ana hdII1rS were 1TdCllOHdlly
weaker on realizations. American Sc
curities remained steady at over par
ity.
Manchester and Birmingham gave
heavy Unionist gains. Birmingham
has been strongly conservative, large
~ the result. of Joseph Chamberlain
crusade for protection, and the I'm
ionists carried the city solidly by in
creased majorities, nearly eight thou
sand larger than in 1906. In Man
chester the Unionists increased their
votes, for, while the Liberals still have
five of the six seats, the Liberal ma
jorities were decreased nearly nine
thousand
Waldorf Astor and Sir H. Mortimer
Durand, the former ambassador to the
United States, who contested the two
Plymouth seats as Unionists, were de-
feated, but cut down that city's Lib
eral majority from 2,367 in 1906 to
946.
The most exciting scenes of the
campaign occurred at Grimsby, where
menacing crowd threatened David
Lloyd-George. chancellor of the ex-
chequer, compelling him to fee from
a hall where he had been speaking,