The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-01-20
|EDERALS Retain
THEIR HOLD UPON
THE GOVERNMENT
Majority May Be Reduced, but
Budget Will Be Approved
by Popular Vote.
TORIES IN MINORITY
OF MEMBERS ELECTED

II London. Jan. 19.-The known
|k results Of the election to the q
H. new parliament, today's count Il
|k ing Of the ballots not having &
Is been completed, are AZ follows: Il
Is Observation-Disclosures, -. Il
|A Ministerialists Liberals, So q
< Irish nationallsts, 10; labor. 6. &
|k Liberals, laborltes and Irish =
= n%ationalists are all supporters =
E of the budget. H
London, JAM. 19.-Clear weather and
thousands of motor cars and carriages
to convey delayed voters to the sta
lions gave promise of a record poll be-
ing recorded at today's elections for
members of parliament.
In doubtful districts the party orr
ganizers were reinforced by an army
of canvasse-s and few voters escaped.
day. OF these, 81 were London con-;
%stituencies and 73 provincial boroughs.
last year the u%nionists held SO of the
1O4, the liberals Sc and the laborites
16. The proportion for London alone
vas Unionists, II: liberals. IL. and
laborites, 2.
Although both sides preserve a SAN
guine air Of confidence, it was evident
today that the conservatives have aban-l
doned hope that their party will form,
the next government. The utmost they
dare to expect is that the liberal ma,
parliament 10 to place the liberals at
the mercy OF the n~ationalists.
1t must be remembered that Mr.. Bal
four. leader Of the opposition in the
house OF commons, in a speech some
days ago, said that the great political
{coyVac n1rry In -,,1-k{on o,11 ~oA ho.
settled by n general election and per-
haps not by two. Clearly the EXPIRE
mier accurately measured the situation
and the hopes of the tariff reformers
must now be conferred upon some fu-
ture general election.
disappointed hat the unionists gains Of
Saturday were no greater and the
dealings this morning caused the loss
of some advances registered last wee
In anticipation Of a tory victory.
Consuls fell b1-6, while rails
alizations. American securities re-
NAMED steady at ove parity.
London 10 Conservative.
II London were England, 1t would all
be settled nov, but London has not been
England for q long time, and is growing
less and less 80. London, politically, is
a. q country apart-an overwhelming
ocean Of cosmopolitan humanity that
thinks London, talks London. dresses
East. South America. the colonies. per-
haps ever Singapore and the south pole
but not the provinces. There are no press
associations which reflect the instant.
daily doings and feelings Of the coun-
ties, sven to the extent Is which New
ifornia. Nor 10 the feeling OF the man in
the country reflected. The motor in the
gray matter Of the man where you go for
the weekend may drive him to action;
may give out heat; but there 10 no light
attachment: his sentiments do not shine
forth. except when, under some special
impetus. he Is illuminated for the momen-
tary occasion. lei comes the only
chance n has of getting att him.
Moderate Against Radical.
In London the issues were welded into
one-the moderate man against the radi-
cal. Lord Cromef's speeches were not
without their effect, in view Of his change
Of attitude since he warned the peers in
his speech in the House of Lords. II
feel very strongly" he said at Sheffield.
that this ts going to be a fight to the
finish. in which on the one side are ranged
all the anti-conservative classes in the
country, with a strong socialist tail tackled
on to them, and on the other side those
who are conservative, in which term. I
think, ought to be included moderate lib
erals" To prevent the disruption of the
empire to maintain the union with Ire
land, to secure adequate national defence,
to secure the continued existence of the
Church of E~ngland-these were some Of
the reasons for which he asked unionist
votes. Such a speech shows how mixed
and broad the issues have become.
The Spectator, which in 1906 urged every
%unionist free trader to vote for the liber-
ais. 10 now begging every voter reclaim
able by reason and moderation to save
the union ard democracy and In the
course of comment on this the powerful
Daily Telegraph refers to the truly awful
consequences involved in the renewal Of
q vote Of confidence in the government -
compared with which the fiscal contro-
versy is but q family %squabble." This
newspaper also prints such a paragraph
as this: Should the radicals win, there
is but too great a likelihood that the en-
pire will disappear and the United King
dom sink to the level OF a fifth-rate Eu-
lropen Power" Day by day appear para
graphs announcing the detection from the
hence, but, of course, to the n who mat
tiers enough to print there are dozens, yes
Thousands, OF the humble who will not get
Into the papers, but will get into the bal
lot-box.
h ferocity Of the campaign has been
astonishing. For a few days after the re-
lection Of the budget by the House of
Lords a metropolitan radical newspaper
printed its main political news and COM
ment under the headline 1.-THE Revolu-
ton" Over a speech by Iloyd-George APP
pears in a dignifed journal the line En-
c%ouraging Class Hatred" In another
newspaper the speeches Of the previous
day begin in q column entitled The Cam
paisn Of Calumny-New ISLANDERS and Old
Lies.
WAR sLooP WRECKED.
Minorca, Balearic Islands, in the
Mediterranean, Jan. 1.-THE French
war sloop, Martial, was wrecked today
OF the coast OF Minorca island. Three
of the crew were drowned and -four
others were injured.
RuSSlA REIEcTc KNnY,c