Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-20
LIBERALS STILL IN LEAD
Governments Majority 49 After
Loss of SO Seats.
BEATEN IN sTR0NGH0LDs
Liberals Are Defeated in David
Lloyd-George's District and in
Scottish Constituency.

LONDON January 20.-A wave of tar
iff reform swept over a majority of the
constituencies, mostly county districts,
which voted yesterday for members of
parliament and the unionists on COM
pleted returns show total net gain thus
far of IS seats.
The state of the parties as known at
5 o'clock this afternoon was:
Government coalition: Liberals. 13s..
Irish Nationalists. 80: laborites. D.
Opposition: Unionists 1os.
The total net gains of fifty-eight by
the unionists is of liberal seats. The ag-
gregate gains of the unionists from :s6o
elections complete were SO. while the lib
erals had 10 and the lahorites / gain.
Beaten in Strongholds.
Two gains in David Lloyd-George $
principality. the election of w. Ormsby
Gore for Denbgh, and c. T. Venables
Llewellyn for Radnorshire. are especially
treasured among the scalps taken by the
unioinists yesterday: while Sir NJ. J. Met.
Stewart, another unionist, put wedge in
Scottish liberalism by capturing Kirk
Cudbridghttshire
Other tariff reform victories We're the
elections of Arthur Fl. Lee. formerly mil
itary attache at the British embassy in
Washington who more than tripled his
earlier majority for the Fareham dis
trict of Hantz, and Capt. II. Spender-
Clay. who turned a radical majority of
1,2S3 for the southwest division of Kent
into unionist majority of 3,21O.
Sir Edward Grey, secretary for foreign
affairs, retained his seat for the Ber-
wick-onTweed division of Northumber-
land by substantial majority. though
reduced by nearly 600 from his earlier
figures. Alexander Ure, for Iinlithgow-
shire, the attorney general, against whom
a special onslaught had been made by the
unionists. won hands-down. with ma,
uel. liberal. Yorkshire. North Riding
Cleveland division, nearly doubled his
previous majority.
Contest at Westminster.
The contest at Westminster today
brings the London borough elections to
an end. sas the sitting member, w. l..
A. b. Burdett-Couts, unionist, is assured
of reelection. The metropolis in the
new parliament will have thirty-three
unionists. against twenty-eight liberals.
The proportion In the last house was
thirty mine liberals and twenty-five union
lists.
From now on interest win center in the
results in the provinces. The unionists
are not counting upon striking gains in
Scotland or Wales. but .Ormsby-Gore
unionist, son of Lord Harlech, made a
notable breach yesterday in the solid
radicalism of the princpaIity by winning
Denbigh district from one of the most
ardent of the Welsh nationalists, A. c.
Edwards.
Forty-seven constituencies balioted to-
day, among the more prominent candi-
dates being ]. Henniker-Heaton, unionist
for Canterbury; Timothy NJ Healy
nationalist, for Louth: Thomas w. Rus
sell. liberal. for Tyrone and Joseph Albert
Pease, liberal, for Essex. Saffron Walden
division, chief liberal whip.
Accused of Trickery.
The conservative papers today accuse
Premier Asquith of having tricked the
Irish voters on the subject of home rule
They declare that he promised home rule
before the election and that on the
strength of this promise the nationalists
issued their address to the Irish in Eng
land, asking support for the liberals.
AS soon as the Irish votes We're cast,
however. the premier. it is charged
hedged and practically withdrew his