Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-16
SITUATION AT CLOSE OF
BALLoTING YESTERDAY
Neither Party Can Claim to Be in
Commanding Position.
CROWD MENACEs CHANCELLOR
Is Compelled to Flee From Public
Hall Under Police Protection.
Surprises Develop.

LONDON. January 15.-At the close OF
the general elections today the standing
Of the various parties. including uncon-
tested seats, was as follows:
Cnionists. AZ: liberals. 81. laborites, q.
and nationalists. j.
tnionists gains. is: liberal gains. ?.
labor gains over liberals, i. and no
change, 60.
OF the twelve seats contested in London
the liberals hold seven, the unionists five.
three of the latter being gains in North
Lambeth, Brixton and Fulham
In the provinces the upionlsts gained
southwest Manchester, Stalybridge. Sails
bury. Rochester. Burnley, two seats
IN Devonport. Cambridge, Yarmouth.
Gloucester. Wolverhampton, west ana
south: Wednesbury, and two seats ia
Bath.
The liberals won Manchester tnorth-
west, Darlington and Grimsby The
labor gain was in East Manchester
The total popular vote OF Yesterday
stands: Liberals, 3O3,344; unionists, ::6g,
Sl1, labor, IU.39f. and socialists 9Ji4
Monday will be the heaviest day OF the
polling and the developments then ought
to indicate the final result more clearly.
Neither Party in Control.
The first engagement i'm the drht for
tariff reform. a great navy and the ST.
premacy Of the lords as against free
trade, reform of the house of lords anu
home rule ended tonight with neither
party in commanding position. The re-
suits Of the polling today tend 10 con-
firm the forecast that the liberals will
retain control of the government with
greatly reduced majority. The unionists
have gained an encouraging number or
seats. although less than the twenty-nine
which they expected 10 take away from
the liberals out of the seventy-four bal
| loted for.
The popular vote goes strongly against
the liberals. The members of that party
who held seats won them today by ma
jorities ranging from so TO 60 per cent be-
low their majorities IN 1906. except In q
few boroughs where special conditions
figured in the campaign.
The popular votes polled by the liberals
for the twelve London seats show a
stronger hold on power THAN I'm the prov
inces. The ma jority of the London boz
oughs were labor districts.
OF these the unionists carried five. three
being captured from the liberal column.
but by small margins
Heavy Gains for Unionists.
Manchester and Birmingham give heavy
unionist gains. Birmingham has been
strongly conservative. largely the result
of Joseph Chamberlain's c,l SADIE for pro-
lection, and today the u ionists carried
the city solidly by increased majorities.
nearly 5000 larger than in 1905.
In Manchester the unionists increa sed
! l,oir x-ntA for vxrhi tln her sfii
have five of the six seats, the liberia ma
jorities were decreased nearly 1000.
The most sweeping change in London
was in Fulham borough where the mid
die class population went enthusiastically
for tariff reform. giving w Hayes Fish
er. the unionst candidate. majority Of
900. In this borough in the last elec-
ton the seat went to liberal by eco.
Devonport. where the big navy issue
was predominant. wiped out the liberal
majority of 100 and returned two union
lists by 800. Sir j. Jackson and Sir &.
kinloch Cooke. Sir Henry Norman. the
liberal journalist. who is well known in
America. and who recently was appoint
ed assistant postmaster general. was
beaten at Wolverhampton, South. by
small ma jority. In order to retain his
place in the cabinet he will be nominal
ed from another borough.
Defeated, But Reduce Majority.
Waldorf Astor and Sir ii. Mortimer Du-
rand. former ambassador to the United
States, who contested the two Plymouth
seats as unionists. were defeated, but
cut down the citys liberal majority from
1857 in 1906 TO 946.
Davidson Dalziel, a promoter. and at
one time conspicuous in Wall street, rum
ming on the unionist ticket, turned out
J. H. Seaverns, liberal and former
\, lie fnr tho Dtixr
division of Lambeth.
w. Joynson- Hicks. the unionist who
beat Winston Spencer Churchill in the
Manchester by-election of 1908 by so
votes. loses his seat to Sir G. Kent, lih
eral by 7S:5. The Rt. Hon. G.. Wsnd-
ham. who will be governor general OF
Canada if the unionists take on the GOV
ernment. carried his seat by a slightly
away thousand votes from Sir Gilbert
Parker in the Gravesend district. but he
retains his seat as unionist. The
famous barrister, Rufus Isaacs keeps
Reading for the liberals by a small ma
jorty. but Russell Rea. a prominent ship
owner whose face was familiar at the
recent police conferences, loses Glouces-
ter to the unionist. III. Terrell j. T. L.
Lincoln, liberal. ousted II. Pike Pease.
one of the most prominent unionists,
from Darlington by twenty-nine votes.
while Premier Asquith's brother-in-law,
Sir +. Tenant. lost his seat for Sails
bury TO the unionist. g. Locker Lampson,
by 315 votes.
Crowd Threatens Lord George.
The most exciting scene of the cam
paign occurred at Grimsby, where a men,
acing crowd threatened David Lloyd
George, chancellor of the eKchcquer, conf
pelling him TO flee from hall where he
had been speaking, under police protec-
ton, much as he was driven from a pro-
Boer meeting at Birmingham during the
South African war. when he made his
escape disguised in policeman's uni
form.
Part of the provocation for the hostility
shown toward him was caused by the
chancellor's unusual course i'm addressing
the voters on polling day. which has
never obtained before i'm England, and
which is considered .by many TO he un-
constitutional The chanccllor's speech
included prediction of disaster to the