Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-01-21
LORDS GAIN IN
ENGLISH ELECTION
UNloNIsTS HAVE RATHER BET.
TER OF OPENING CLASH
AT THE POLLS.
MAKE BEST GAIN IN PROVINCES
Liberals Retain Control, However,
With Reduced Majority.-Neither
Side in Struggle Gains Posi-
ton.
MAKE BEST GAIN IN PROVINCES

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 COM
handing position The results of the
that the liberals will retain control
of the government with greatly re-
duced majority. The Unionists have
gained an encouraging number of
seats, although less than the 20 which
they expected to take away from the
Liberals out of the "a balloted for.
At the close of the elections
the standing of the various part
les, including uncontested seats,
was as follows:
Unionists 43, Liberals 81, La
borites 6. Nationalist 5.
Unionists gains IS, Liberal
gains 8, Labor gains over Liber-
ais 1, no change So.
OF the ~ seats contested in
London the Liberals hold sevent,
the Unionists five. three of the
latter being gains in North Lam
beth and Fulham.
In the provinces the Unionists
gained southwest Manchester.
stalybridge, Salisbury, Rochester.
Burnley, two seats in Davenport,
Cambridge, Yarmouth, Gloucester,
Northampton. West and South
Wednesday, and two seats in
Bath.
uyNn Mannh0Ctnr
(northwest) Darlington, and
Grimsby. The labor gain was in
East Manchester.
The popular vote goes strongl,
against the Liberals. The members
of that party who hold seats wor
them this year by majorities ranging
from 80 to 60 per cent below thei
majorities in 1906, except in a few
boroughs where special conditions fig
ured in the campaign. The popula
votes polled by the Liberals for tn
twelve London seats show a stronge
hold on power than in the provinces
The majority of the London borough
were labor districts. OF these tn
Unionists carried five, three bein
captured from the Liberal column
but by small margins.
Manchester and Birmingham Civ
heavy Unionist gains. Birmingham
has been strongly conservative, large
ly the result of Joseph Chamberlain!
crusade for protection, and this yea
the Unionists carried the city solidl.
by increased majorities, nearly 500
larger than in 1906.
In Manchester the Unionists In
creased their votes, for while the Lii
erals still have five of the six seats
the Liberal majorities were decrease
nearly 5000.
The most sweeping change in Lor
don was in Fulham borough where tn
middle class population went for tart
reform, giving w. Hayes Fisher. tn
Unionist, majority of 1000. In thi
borough, in the last election, the sea
went to a Liberal by 600.
Davenport, where the big navy il
sue was predominant, wiped out tn
Liberal majority of 1900 and returne
two Unionists by 500, Sir j. Jackso
and Sir C. Kinloch Cooke Sir Herr
Norman, the Liberal journalist VIII
is well known In America and VIII
recently was appointed assistant pos
master general was beaten at Wolve
hampton South, by small majorit,
In order to retain his place in tn
cabinet he will be nominated for ar
other borough
Waldorf Aston and Sir H Mortime
Durand, the former ambassador to tn
United States who contested the tw,
Plymouth seats as Unionists were d.
feated but cut down that citys Libel
al majority from 1857 in 1906
Grimsby furnished a great surpris
for it casted $500 votes and its sea
changed from the Unionist 10 tn
Liberal column, T. E. Wing defeatin
Sir G. Doughty, one of the foreemos
Unionist orators.
The streets in the center of LonG-o
were almost impossible after the Oil
ner hour from cheerful tnrona
swarming in from the suburbs to gt
the election returns. The newspape
Offices in Fleet street were erocte
on street corners, one wheye the r
suits were bulletined
Unionists, being the party of tt
rich, had by far the greater numbt
of motors at their command The
were decorated gaudily with flags ar
posters.
Turkey On Verge of War.