Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-01-20
POPULAR VOTE GOES STRONGLY
AGAINST the LIBERAL
FORCES.
SIR GILBERT PARKER BARI
RETAINS HIS SEAT FOR
GRAVESEND.
LLoYD-GEoRGE COMPELLED TO
FLEE FROM WRATH OF
POPULACE.

for tariff reform, for a great navy
and the supremacy of the lords, as
against free trade, reform OF the
house of lords and home rule ended
with neither party in a commanding
position. The results of yesterdays
polling tend to confirm the forecast
that the liberals will retain control
of the government with a greatly re-
duced majority. The unionists
gained an encouraging number OF
seats, although less than the 20 which
they expected to take from the liber-
ais out of the "A ballored for. The
popular vote goes strongly against
the liberals. The liberals who hold
seats won them yesterday by major
tiles ranging from thirty to sixty per
cent below their majorities in 1906,
except in q few boroughs where spe
cial conditions figure. The popular
votes polled by the liberals for the
twelve London seats show a stronger
hold on them than in the provinces.
The majority in the London boroughs
ham has been strongly conservative,
largely the result of Joseph Chamber
lains crusade for protection. and yes
terday the unionists carried the city
solidly by increased majorities, near
ly 5000 larger than in 1906
In Manchester the unionists in.
creased their votes, for while the lib.
erals still have five Of six seats, the
liberal majorities were decreased
nearly 5000.
The most sweeping change in Lon
don was in Fulham borough, where
the middle class population went en-
Enthusiastically for tariff reform, giving
Fisher, the unionist candidate, a ma
jority of 1000. Fulham in the last
election went liberal by 500. Daven-
port, where the big navy issue was
predominant, wiped out the liberal
majority of 1900 and returned two
unionists by 500. Sir Henry Norman,
liberal journalist, who recently was
appointed assistant postmaster geneG.
al, was beaten at Wolverhampton,
south, by a small majority. In order
to retain his place in the cabinet he
will be nominated for another Dor
Ough.
Waldorf Astor, and Sir Mortimer
Durand, former ambassador to the
United States, who contested two
Plymouth seats as a unionist, were
defeated, but cut that city's liberia,
down from 1857 in 1906 TO
SAC.
Davidson DalzieI, promoter, running
as a uniOnfst, turned out j. H Seay-
ems, liberal, former American from
his seat for the Brixton division or
Lameeth
w. Representatives, the unionist
who beat Winston Spencer Churcnin
in the Manchester bye-eIection III
1908 by 429 votes, loses his seat to
Sir G. Kent, liberal, by 1888. wynG-
ham, who will be governor general OF
Canada if the unionists secure the
government carried his seat by the
slightest increased majority.
The liberals cut thousand votes
from Sir Gilbert Parker in the
Gravesend district, but he retains MIS-
seat as a unionist. The famous bar
rister, Rufus Tsaacs, keeps Reading
for the liberals by a small majority, !
but Russell Rea, the ship owner who
was prominent in the recent peace
loses Gloucester to the
II Terrell. Lincoln, liberal. |
busted H. Pike Pease, one OF the
most prominent unionists, from Oar
lington by % votes. Premier AS
luiths brother-in-Iaw, Sir E. Ten
nant, lost his seat for Salisbury to
the uniOnist, Locker-Lampson, by 5I5 |
The most exciting scenes occurred |
at Grimsby, where a menacing crowd |
Lloyd George, chancellor OF
.he exchequer, to fee from the hall |
where he had been speaking, under |
police protection.
A part of the hostility was caused |
)y the chanceTlor's unusual course OF
the voters on polling day
n the course of his speech he de-
;lared: 'If the German fleet in d
moment Of madness ever attacked
Great Britain it would be at the bot
ON Of the German ocean in a very
ew hours"
When the chancellor was leaving
he hall the crowd shouted traitor"
'pro-boer" He returned within the
and Gordon of police Eept
Jack the crowd. An escort Of po-
ice conducted Lloyd-George out Of the
Jack door and the party retreated a
quarter of a mile along the railway,
where a small station was used as a
efuge. An automobile was tele-
,honed for and the chancellor rode to
own by a circuitous route.
Grfmsby shifted $500 votes and it's
eat from unionist to the liberal col,
mn 7. z. Wing defeated Sir G.
one of the foremost unIonist
rators
The streets in the center of London
we're so thronged that they were al
lost impossible last evening. Many
Greens were erected wherein the re-
ults were bu11etiDed Reports were
cad in the theaters.