The San Francisco call., 1910-01-18
Return of Cabinet by Fair Ma
jOrity Now Declared to
Be Certain
Government Fares Much Better
Than Expected by Most
Ardent Admirers
Days Polling Results in Net
Gain of Fourteen Seats for
the UniOnists
Honest John" Burns Re-elect-
ed to Parliament Over Tariff
Reform Opponent
oNDoN. Jan. 1z-At the con

r ONDON. Jan. 17-At the con
/ clusion of today's polling in the
- general election the parties stood
as follows:
Unionists %, liberals IL, laborites
10, nationalists IS. Net gain for the
unionists %.
The government Jared much better
today than its most ardent support
ers expected The unionists gained
l9 seats, the liberals 4 and the labor
ties l, making net gain for the
unionists for the day of 14-one less
than they gained at fewer elections
Saturday.
Liberals Return Assured
This practically assured the return
Of the liberal power with fair ma
jority, for among the places still to
poll are those in Scotland and Wales,
which always are solidly liberal
There were not many surprises to-
day Some expected that John Burns,
president of the local board, would
be defeated in Battersea division and
Clapham, but Burns himself never had
any doubt as to the result
Other state officials who had to fight
for their seats and were successful
were Augustine Birren. chief secretary
for Ireland. and C. L. Hobhouse. fnan-
cial secretary to the treasury in Bristol
and DIR. T. ]. MacNamara. secretary to
the admiralty in CamberweIL Their
majorities were greatly reduced
Big Reductions Shown
In fact, this happened all through the
country the huge majorities secured in
1906 showing big reductions in almost
all cases. Indeed. many liberals who
became members of the house of COM
mons by the grace of the landslide that
year have been sent back to private
life Among them is Hamar Green
wood, a Canadian who represented York
and was considered a prominent candi-
date for high office. Another Canadian,
Joseph Martin, former premier of Brit
ish Columbia, was more successful.
winning the seat for St. Pancras. East.
Other prominent members defeated
included L. c. Chiozza Money, apostle
of free trade. who lost his seat for
North Paddingtons and VIII Crookes.
labor leader, for WooIwich. Sir H Rob-
son. liberal candidate for North Ken
sington, failed to get a majority, as
did also Sir John Gorst, former min
lister and at one time member of the
fourth party. whose leading spirits
were A j. BaIfour and Lord Randolph
Churchill
Doctors Defeat UnioniSt
On the other side Lord r Cecil and
George Stewart Boles. who ran as free
trade unionists. failed to overthrow
Philip Snowden, labor leader, and Sir
Thomas Barclay Blackburn.
Doctors had much to do with the de-
feat of Claud Hay. unionist, in the Hor-
ton division of Shoreditch. His oppo-
nent was DIR. c. Addison. a famous con-
sulting surgeon Hay. on the platform.
made disparaging remarks about the
profession. and as result the whole
fraternity turned out to assist Doctor
Addison.
The liberals also won back the ad-
joining constituency OF Haggerston.
represented by the Hon r. Guinness.
unionist. he being defeated today by S.
G. Chancellor.
Unionist leaders who ran today. in
cluding A j. Balfour. A Bonar Law.
Walter Hume Long and Sir William
Bull, hold their seats by increased ma
jorities.
Polling Is Close
The polling was remarkably close.
however, in many constituencies. H. E.
Duke. noted barrister, for example. won
Exeter from the liberals by the narrow
margin of IS. while in the Beecham di-
vision OF Camberwell Henry Cubitt
Gooch. who secured a majority OF more
than 1000 in the recent bye election,
retains his seat by bare hundred. One
HharoI retained his oaaf hv q no fo~ifxr