The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-17
Majority Is Reduced But the Par9 Leaders Are Fair
 y We'll Satisfied
MORE VOTERS TURN OUT
 THAN USUAL AT POLLS
unionists Claim That Their Cause Profits Most by the Increased Vote, and Indicates Desire
 for Tariff Reform.

London, January 16-sunday has given a welcome respite from the strenuous work at the election stations and an op- portunity for calm reflection over the prospects of both parties striving to gain control of the government
 The greatest animation prevailed today at the clubs and other rendezvous of pol iticians and Saturdays results were ex- citedly discussed from every possible viewpoint
 Although both sides preserve a sanguine air of confidence. 1t was evident today that the conservatives have abandoned hope that their party was able to form the new government The utmost they dare expect, it is declared, is that the lib- eral majority will be so reduced in the next parliament as to place the liberals at the mercy of the nationalists.
 MT Balfour, leader of the opposition in the house of commons, in a speech some days ago said that the great politi- cal issues now in question would not bs settled by one general election, and per- haps not by two.
 Clearly the former premier accurately measured the situation. it is said and tha hopes of the tariff reformers must nov be centered upon some future general election
 An estimate made today after a care ful calculation of weil-inforfned union- ist advocate, based on Saturdays poll ing, gives the liberals and laporites a clear majority of 90 or 100 oyer all par vA irh f<4. ernment with a good working majority.
 Unonsts Are Hopeful.
 Many of the unionsts. however, it is asserted, are less Respondent They do not believe that the liberals will finish the election with so good a record as this.
 At the Liberal club great satisfaction Is expressed over the results so far in. some further losses are expected 3t Glas- gow and reduced vote in the English counties, where agricultural interests would be likely to benefit from tarin reform, and where the land interests have great influence, it is reported.
 The pollings tomorrow will include sl constituencies and 57 provincial boroughs will provide better index as to how the country is going. Should the liberals retain their hold on the metropolis, which they gained in 1896. their prospects will be regarded as much more improved than from a first glance
 The unionist gains in London were stat ed officially at half the number of seats they had counted on which will give them a victory if the other districts con tine to return gains in the same ratio. It Is said, however, the liberals will re- tain a majority of somewhere in the neighborhood of 90.
 Lloyd George Satisfied.
 Chancellor Lloyd George said might:
 We are winning England Is declaring emphatically against government by the peer and the beer. The north h over whelmingy with us.'
 John Burns. president of the local xov- crnment board of Ireland. said:
 All things considered the fight be- tween those who have too much, and those who have too little in Ireland, has been presented in new light. We have done much better than expected In my Judgment it is well. To win the seats that have been lost would havo required almost superhuman efforts"
 William Crooks, the well-kncwA labor leader, who was in Australia when the budget crisis began, and has been racing against time to reach London so that hs might take part in the election, arrived tonight. He represents Woolwich in the house of commons. and was received by his constituency with remarkable dem onstration at the wharf.
 The Rev. c. Sylvester Horn, Congrega- tional minister, won his seat at Ipswich on the liberal ticket. A. H. Paget. the unionist candidate for Cambridge, whose wife is daughter of the late William, c. Whitney, was returned a victor over his opposition.
 Winston ChurchIrs views.
 'The battle is we'll maintained at ev- cry point" said Winston Spencer Churoh- i'll tonight. Great victories cannot bo won without some slaughter. Manchester is magnificent London Is steadfast and the tories are on lee shore, and every tack or change of weather tactics will bring them nearer the reef"
 As aforesaid, the tremendous absorp- tion of the country in the election strug- gle brought an unprecedented number of electors to the polls, says advices. An average of 43 per cent of the registered electors recorded their votes. This h. crease in the voting strength seems e have been largely cast on the unionist side. In London the F seats contested gave an aggregate increase of 12845 in the unionst vote and a slight decrease to the liberals, while the provinces inc creased the unionist vote approximately 45 900 and the liberals only 4513.,
 This increase, 1t Is declared, Is source of satisfaction to the unionist press as showing the rapid growth in favor of tariff reform.