The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
ELECTION MOBS IN GREAT
 BRITAIN STONE CANDIDATES
 AND WRECK CLUBS AND MINES
Closeness of the Race is l"creasing the Violence - Unless Liberals Have Working Majority of More Than 40 They Will Not Take Over Govern' ment.
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.)
 London, Jan. 21.-It was confiden- tially announced at the Liberal head quarters today that unless the Lib- erals and Laborites without the aid of the Irish Nationalists, have a min imum majority over the Conservatives of forty, they will not accept the ministerial control The announce ment has occasioned great excitement as present indications are that the Liberals and Laborite majority over the Conservatives will not reach this figure.
 The opposition of the Liberals makes it equally impossible for the Con- servatives to accept ministerial con- troI under such conditions, thus caus- ing a reelection almost immediately In the event of another election, the Liberals are confident of greater suc- cess, being sure the Conservatives have exhausted their political ener- gies and are on the verge of a col lapse.
 If the Liberals make good their threat the new parliament would prob ably sit about week, Herbert As quith retaining the premiership for administrative convenience.
 The most serious aspect of the new situation is that it will continue in- definitely the present paralysis of business. If the Conservatives con- tinue to gain seats as at yesterdays s race, the Liberals and Laborites coali- tion will have majority of only II over the Conservatives. Such scant margin is considered wholly made quate to insure the carrying out of any of the party's legislative pro- gram.
 Out of 3S2 members that had been selected previous to todays voting the Conservatives had made net gain of 70.
 The closeness of the race is increas- ing the violence attending the election and serious riots are now of almost daily occurrence. F. p. Acton, finan- cial secretary of the war office, was seriously injured last evening by be- ing stoned and knocked from his auto He was making a speech in behalf of his own Liberal candidacy in Yorkshire.
 w. l.. Boyle, the Conservative vic- tor in Deerham, fainted while being congratulated by the crowd about the polling booth.
 As he was being carried unconscious to his hotel, the same crowd attacked w. R. Lester, the defeated Liberal candidate. Lester was knocked down and badly beaten.
 Among the prominent candidates defeated in yesterdays election were J. A. Pease, chief whip of the Lib erals, a position corresponding to Congressional floor leader in the American Congress; Victor Grayson a prominent Laborite, and Lief Jones the National prohibition leader. Gray son was defeated by the votes of Lib erals who considered him too social istic to include in the Liberal-labor all liance. s>
 At Saffron Waldon, where Pease met defeat, a mob assaulted Pease who was finally rescued by police and es- corted to his home. Colonel Problyn, the winner over Pease, was carried to his home on the shoulders of the mob.
 Sixty-seven constituencies, entitled to one representative each, are voting to- day. Naval Secretary McKenna is up for reelection.
 The failure of the Liberals to make the expected gains in the rural dis tricts has caused wholesale accusa- tion of intimidation of voters.
 Sir Henry Norman, the Liberal cam paign manager, in published state snent says that the foremen of fac tories in his constituency superintend- ed the voting of the workmen and eX- torted pledges from them to vote for the Conservatives candidate. Those who refused, he says, were discharg- ed. Others were evicted from their cottages for displaying Liberal posters in their windows. Premiums of $50 were paid for breaking up Liberal meetings, Norman says.
 A mob attacked the Liberal club headquarters at Newmarket today, driving the members from the club houses and wrecking the clubrooms before the police arrived and dispers- ed the rioters. A number of the Lib erals were injured. At Louth mob attacked the Iresidence of Liberal Candidate Davies and was only dis persed by the arrival of police rein forcements from Grimsby.
 Three thousand coal miners smashed the windows of the Marton Collier near Scaham Harbor and attempted to loot the collier superintendent and managers offices, alleging that the manager had attempted to intimidate the miners in their voting. Sixty po- lice fought with the mob. A score of persons were hurt before order was restored.
 At Carnavon, the building occupied by the suffragettes as headquarters was wrecked by a crowd of men who also tried to run wagonette, con- taining a dozen suffragettes, into the public fountain, bece use they were in- terfering with an address by Chancel- lor Lloyd d-George.
 The Liberal press is imploring the voters to defy attempts at intimda- tion relying on the secrecy of the ballot for their protection. The Lib- erals say they will contest many of the seats won by the Conservatives on the ground of irregularity in the voting.