The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
LIBERALS LOSE
SEATS,BUTA ARE
STILL IN LEAD
Elections Indicate That British
Cabinet Will Have Good
Working Majority
Premier Says Settlement With
Lords Will Be First Prob
lem for Parliament

decidedly the better of the elections to-
osy. or - seats contested they won
el. NJ which u were represented by
ministerislfsts in the last parliament
The elections today resulted in the
return Of the following:
Unionists. II NatiOnaIistS,
Liberals. ~ UniOnist gains. IL
LsboriteS. 3 Liberal gains,
The standing of the parties at the
conclusion Of today's polling was as
follows.
IBionisfs I20 UniOnist gains. 81
Liberals. - Liberal gains, 8
LaboriteS. 20 LabOrite gains L
NHtionaIists. -
tONSERNATTXES ADMIT DEFEAT
- With the exception of North Eng
land. Scotland and the big manufac-
turing towns. the result Of the polls
shows a steady trend toward the fiscal
policy Of the unionists, but. calculating
1eturns thus far announced, the polit-
i-sl oracles maintain that this will not
Ie sufficient TO overcome the big lib
-...8I majority obtained in 1906.
OF course. there are many side is
Sues such as the cry of d weakened
-avs which have influenced the voters,
larticli arlv at naval ports and in
countries where landlords WELD d
-reat influence more unionists gains
may he expected
Were viii have TO be big turnover
.ouever. before the government is put
.ut A conservative estimate now
places the Iiberal-labor majority over
le uniouists Al between so and go.
This. with compact party. would be
a working majority. but with the un-
reliable laborites, backed up by the
Irish when il suited them. the govern
ment would have 30 go warily to avoid
pitfalls.
LABORITES LOSE SEATS
The laborites. it is true, are not
Ikely to he so strong in the new par
1fament as I'm the last. They have al
ready lost several seats. and several
of their members have won by narrow
najoriries.
This loss OF ground by the work
mems party has been one Of the sur
prises of the election. After the sue
cesses of 1906 they thought they had
formed the nucleus of what promised
to be "A powerful group Suspicion that
hey opposed a larger navy doubtless
lad IT'S effect for a number Of other
opponents of the governments belsted
ction in meeting Germany's building
program also suffered defeat
The only consolation today for the
ibe rails was in their success in the
5ermondsey division Of Southwark,
.ulere the government candidate, H. J.
+ awhile ptured the seat which
Z ent over to the unionists in the bye
y ection last November.
-. several Of the liberal losses, as on
. preceding days, We're caused by three
-ornered contests. the Intervention of
Iabor or socialist candidate precluding
af 11a 1rT1n nj
porters.
GAINS BY UNIONISTS
Fourteen of the London boroughs re-
turned eight liberals and six union
lists. as compared with il liberals and
three uuionists in the last parliament.
The unionist gains include Miles
End q division of Tower Hamlets.
where Fl. l. ". Lawson, manager of
the Daily Telegraph. was elected. and
one division Of Liverpool Many of the
seats they won were unionist before
the great liberal victory Of 1895. and
are returning TO the conservative fold.
While there were not so many con-
tests today as on Saturday and Mon
day there were more prominent poll
ficians with fortunes at stake Two of
these-Colonel J. E. 3. Seeley, under
secretary for the colonies. and r. K.
C5auston, psyma aster general-lost their
seats. The loss Of Colonel Seeley was
especially severe for the government,
IS he has been the spokesman in the
house of commons for the colonial Of
fee and was one Of the younger men in
line for promotion.
CABINET MINISTER'S RETURNED
Three members of the cabinet-win-
ston Spencer Churchill, president of the
board Of trade; Sydney Charles Buxton,
postma ster general and Walter Runci-
af I'd nf
fiou-retained their seats.
Churchill, with his labor collea gue,
"a wilkins, incress ssed the majority
: usually given by Dundee. Sir W. S.
Robson, the attorney general, also holds
his old seat for South Shields
T. p. O'CoDnor's grip on the Scotland
: division Of Liverpool was proved by the
3. Increase of 500 which he received over
his big majority Of four years ago
;. on the other side among the prom
inent men who so back 10 Westminster
are Right Hon. A. II. Lyttelton for St
:. Georges, Hanover square; II. /. Law
. son. son Of Lord Burnham. who cap
. tured the Mile end seat. which he held
p. before 1906 and which he once occupied
..ss 2 liberal. J. h. Foster. the prominent
p; writer on fiscal questions, who won
n gainst Silss Hooking, the novelist. in
coventry.
SUFFRAGETTES DISAPPOINTED
The surprises which the suffrs gettes
were expected to spring have not yet
p. .lnsteris lfzed. They have been actively
. cs nvassing gainst the gov overnment and
they made 4 strong stand against Sgd
, ney Buxton today. but thus far they
have not engaged in militant tactics.
- Premier Asquith, addressing his con-
stituents at East Fife. said that the re-
: lnarkable feature Of the election so far
was that with two or three exceptions
: such gains as had been secured by the
% unionists had been in the small towns
.-of England. The great centers of In
..dustry were nearly all solid for free
cfrade and whatever might happen, he
said. one thing was certain-that in the
new Parliament tariff reform was a
political impossibility. No statesman
ship. however ingenious or audacious.
could attempt 10 construct tariff in
defiance Of the opinion of every one of
The great centers OF industry.
Questioned on home rule. the premier
said that he could promise no legisla-
fion Of any kind until they had settled
their conclusions with the house of
lords.
Lord Charles Beresford. in an inter
view. declared, as il was his belief that
the naval question was responsible for