Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-20

| IIOnuon, Jan. 19.-All the returns OF
today's elections which are likely to
be received tonight show that the
Unionists gained five seats and the
Liberals one, leaving the present posi-
ton Of the parties as follows:
| unlonists 129, Liberals 119, Laborites
%, Nationalist A. Thus far, therefore,
| the Unionlsts have made net gain of
4o seats. They are required to obtain
at least 16S net gains to wipe out the
| Liberal majority in the last Parlia-
ment.
OF the elections for 81 members of the
new Parliament held in Great Britain
today. the result of less than half was
announced tonight, the others being
| in widely scattered districts where it
| takes considerable time to collect the
| ballot boxes. In London, where four
boroughs polled, two remained true to
the Liberals, one to Labor and the
| fourth went over from the Liberal side
| to the Unionsts.
In northern England the Liberals
generally hold the seats won in 1906.
| This also is true of Scotland, but tie
middlelands continue to go over to the
party of tariff reform. The London seat
which the government lost was Hack
| ney North, where Raymond +. Greene,
the Unionist candidate, defeated L.
Hart Davies. c. w. BoWerman.
prominent Laborite, retains his Dept
ford seat and Sir A. Spicer, president
of the London Chamber of Commerce,
and H. Bottcmley We're reelected for
Central and South Hackney respective
ly.
The Liberals also lost one of the
boroughs of Glasgow, that of Cam
lachie, where A. Cross, who was elect
ed as a Unionist in 1906, but went over
to the government side soon after ne
was returned, suffered defeat from a
Tabor candidates running. The Lab
eral and Laborite together received
5146 votes against 1927 for the sue
cessful Unionist, II. j. Mackinder. The
central division of Glasgow remains IN
the Unionist fold, re-electing. The
BIackfriar division OF Glasgow is again
in the Labor column, G. n. Barnes win
ming by an increased majority.
Glasgow, Treadeston, goes over to
the Liberals, A. Cameron Corbett, who
was elected as a Unionist in 1905, but
left the party on account of its opposl-
ton to the licensing bill, being elected
as a ministerialist. The other divisions
of Glasgow. including Strollox which
was represented by t. Mckinnon Wood
under secretary for foreign affairs,
gave increased majorities for the gov
eminent. Nottingham, like all the mid
dleland towns, shows a strong partiali-
tv for tariff reform. Sir H. Y. Cotton,
Liberal and A. Richardson, Laborite,
lost in their effort to represent the east
land south divisions respectively, al
though they had substantial majorities
in 1906. Sir J. H. YoXall however, re-
tanned the west division seat for the
government, but with a decreased ma
jority.
The Liberals were defeated in the
Denbigh boroughs by eight votes. The
Yorkshire, Lancashire and Scottish di-
visions. from which returns have been
received continue their allegiance to
the Liberal party Kildare returned
two Nationalists unopposed, and Newry
sends back a prominent young Nation
alist in the person of J. ]. Mooney,
one of John E. Redmonds lieutenants,
with a large majority over his Unionist
opponent.
Sir John Nicholson Barren, who mar
ried the daughter of the Rev. Leighton
Parks of New York, was again erected
to represent Hawick Burghs for the
Liberals, with almost double the vote
of the opposition candidate.
c. p. Trevelan, parliamentary secre-
tary for education. is another of the
prominent Liberals retaining their
seats He was successful in the Elland
division of Yorkshire.
The Liberals continue to lose
through three cornered fights, the La
Dor candidates invariably receiving
Just sufficient support to allow the
Unionists to succeed. Already this has
occurred in five constituencies and "a
more are thus threatened. The Union
lists faced the same difficulty in can
terbury, J. Henniker Heaton being OPP
posed by an independent Conservative
besides a Liberal. Judging from the
return received so far, if the Liberal,
Laborite and Nationalist votes We're
grouped there would be considerable
majority for the reform of the House
of Lords Many Unionists also are now
in favor of some change and the
Jynionist leaders are finding strong
current of feeling in the country IN
this direction. They have repeatedly
spoken in favor of reform on the lines
Of the report of the Roseberry COM
mission and, in fact. nave promised to
carry out some such scheme, which
would reduce the number Of hereditary
peers.
IT is almost impossible at present to
gauge popular feeling on Home Rule.
or while Premier Asquith placed it in
his platform many Liberal candidates
have been compelled to repudiate it.
Practically all the Tnionist candidates
are tariff reformers. but some would