The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-07
TIDE TURNING
TO LIBERALS
Will Have 100 Majority in
Next Commons
UNI0NIST CAUSE FAILING
Attempt to Defeat John Burns Results
in an Increased Majority for Labor
ite--2ee Seats Are Already
Filled.
UNIONIST CAUSE FAILING

London, Dec TAT the close Of yes
terday's polings, the complexion Of the
House OF Commons stood as follows
Government oalition--Liberals LOG,
Laborites 20, Nationalist 20, total l52.
Opposition nionists l47
A situation has developed almost phe-
nomenal In the closeness of the race
between the government coalition parties
and the Unionists. The pendulum swung
slightly toward the government yester
day, and the result of three days yot-
ing, in which 200 seats have been filled.
gives the coalition one more member
than they had in the last Parliament
from the same constituencies. Up to
Monday night, the Unionists had clear
gain of five.
The returns last night showed that
the Unonists had regained st. Helen's
from the Laborites. This borough, with
the exception of last election, had been
Unionist since 1908 The Liberals gained
Southwark tWest). Burnley and Cow
entry and the Laborites gained Wool
wieh and Whitehaven, all from the I'm
onists, while yesterday mornings re.
turns from Sunderland showed that the
liberal candidate, Greenwood, and the
Laborite, Gladstone, had replaced the
two Unionists there.
The turning of the tide toward Lib
eralsm is surprise for the Unionists,
who counted upon capturing half dozen
seats from the enemy The greatest
surprise was in Coventry because that
is the seat OF motor manufacturing, and
the protectionists have put great stress
on their plea that tariff reform would
prevent the growing competition from
American machines.
The Liberals hardly expected to win
Burnley, because the Socialist. Hvnd-
man, was in the field and hoped to take
part of the labor vote. The Southwark
contest was one of the most interesting
L. A. Straus, Liberal. winning by only
twelve votes. In Woolwich, VIII Crooks
who was turned out in the last election,
recaptured his old seat by majority
of 238.
The Unionists concentrated their heavy
fire on Battersea, but John Burns, presi-
dent of the local government board,
again surprised them, bringing up his
majority from 555 in the last election
to ] 1872, The Socialist, Shaw, whom Mr..
Burns enemies among the workmen put
up IN the expectation that he would di-
vide the votes, polled mere handful.
John Burns dashed around the constit-
ueney all day in an automobile Sir
John Harrington, the Unionist candidate,
and his wife, followed suit in another
Mr.. Burns appealed to his friends Don't
be taken in by the Establishments of fine
ladies who visit the mean streets only
when they want something"
Almost everywhere fewer ballots were
cast than in the last election. More
Liberals than Unionists stayed away
from the polls Excluding the districts
which changed their compilations, the
Unionists made relative gains in Is. the
Liberals in H. The Socialist candidates
in London did poorly, none command
ing 500 votes
An impression lesson OF the campaign
is how strongly British voters are we'd
ded to their parties, how slow they are
to break away, though the parties
change their platforms radically. The
newspapers appear exercised over their
surprisingly small influence Almost all
the most important among them ana
those with the largest circulation cham
pioned the Unionist cause, yet they were
unable to make material inroads in the
Liberal and Labor lines
The betting of the stock exchange be-
fore election was that the coalition ma
jority would drop TO 65. As the elections
progressed, the betting favored 50, then
90 II is now conceded the government
will have 100 majority