Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-01-22
BRITISH ELECTIONS
LIBERALS SURE To SUFFER
GREAT LOSSES.
Unionists Make Gains-Lloyd- George
Mobbed by Big Crowd at Grismby-
He Sought Protection of the Police
Popular Vote Goes Against the Gov
eminent in Many Constituencies.

PrOFlucidl cOhStiJueucleb Indicate I'D
eral majority in the next parliament of
anywhere from 100 to $50.
The standing of the various parties,
including uncohtested seats, follows:
Unionists, 40; liberals, 81; laborites, 6;
nationalists, 5. Unionist gains, IS;
liberal gains, 3; laborites gains over
liberals, 1; no change, 60.
OF the 10 seats contested in Lon
don, the liberals hold seven and the
unionists five, three of the latter be-
ing gains in North Lambeth, Brixton
and Fulham.
Liberal Majority Reduced.
The results of the polling tend to
confirm the forecast that the liberals
will retain control of the government
with greatly reduced majority. The
unionists have gained an encouraging
number of seats, although less than 20
which they expected to take away from
the liberals out of the "a balloted for.
The popular vote goes strongly
against the liberals. The members of
that party who hold seats won them in
this election by majorities ranging from
30 to 60 per cent below their majorities
in 1906.
Manchester and Birmingham give.
heavy unionist gains. Birmingham has
been strongly conservative, the result
of Joseph Chamberlain IS crusade for
protection. The unionists carried the
city solidly by increased majorities,
nearly 5000 larger than in 1906. In
Manchester the unionists increased their
votes, for while the liberals still have
five of the six seats, the liberals, ma.
jorities were decreased nearly 9,OOO
The most sweeping change in Lon
don was in Fulham borough, where the
middle class population went enthu-
siastically for tariff reform, giving W.
Hayes Fisher, unionist, a majority of
1000.
Davenport, where the big navy issue
was predominant, wiped out the lib
eral majority.
Waldorf Aston and Sir H. Mortimer
Durand, the former ambassador to the
United States, who contested the two
Plymouth seats as unionists, were de-
feated.
w. Joynson-Hicks, the unionist who
beat Winston Spencer Churchill in the
Manchester bye-election of 1908 by 494
votes, loses his seat to Sir G. Kent,
liberal, by 1888.
Rt. Hon. G.. Wyndham, who will be
governor general of Canada if the
unionists take on the government, car
ried his seat by slightly increased
majority.
Premier Asquith' IS brother-in law Sir
E. Tenant, lost his seat for Salisbury
to the unionist, G.. r-Tapson,
by SIS.
Mob Menaces Lloyd George.
The most exciting scenes occurred at
Grimsby, where a menacing crowd
threatened Davis Lloyd-George, chan.
cellor of the exchequer, compelling him
to flee under protection of the police
from a hall where he had been speak
ing, much as he was driven from pro-
Boer meeting at Birmingham during
the South African war, when he es-
capped disguised as a policeman.
Part of the provocation for the hos
tility shown toward him was caused by
the chancellor unusual course in ad-
dressing the voters on polling day,
which has never obtained before in
England, and which is considered I'M
constitutional by many. His speech in
cluded a prediction of disaster to the
German fleet if it fought England
Referring to invincibility of the
British navy, he declared:
eff the German fleet, in a moment
of madness, ever attacked Great
Britain it would be at the bottom of
the German ocean in a very few
hours"
A big crowd waited outside the hall,
and when the chancellor appeared
raised shouts of "Traitor," "Pro-
Boer." The chancellor retreated with
in the building and a Gordon of police
kept back the crowd.
The polling was noteworthy from
the thousands of automobiles employed
in London districts to carry voters to
the polls. Unionists, that being the
party of the rich, had by far the
greater number of motors at their
command.
Several cabinet members spoke before
their constituents. Premier Asquith
Foreign Secretary Edward Grey and
Chancellor Lloyd-George devoted theii
speeches mainly to unfolding the gov
ernment's management of the navy
Winston Spencer Churchill, president OF
the board of trade, speaking at Dundee
denounced the party of privilege anc
class.