The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-11
WEEK DEVOTED TO
ELECT|ONEER|NG.
Dogged Tenacity Shown by
Members of Each
Party.
VOTES FOR WOMEN COSTLY
Feud in Irish Ranks Leaves
Things as They
Were.
BY WILLIAM T. STEAD.

BY WILLIAM IT. STEAD.
lspeclal Cable to The Times-D Dispatch.
London December 1o.--The week has
been almost entirely devoted to cleo
tioneering. There is no need to refer
In detail to the returns. but some
general observations may not be out
of place.
One Of the extraordinary features
is the dogged tenacity with which the
unionists have voted Unionlst and Lib
erals Liberal. It would almost seem
as II In Britain some men were born
Liberals and others born Unionists.
and they vote as they were made.
without any particular arguments or
issues at any election.
There has been no landslide. Con-
stltuencies have voted on the whole
IN December as they voted in January.
| mo shelv1ng of tariff reform by the
referendum may have given Balfour a
le" seats IN Lancashire. but it has not
appreclaply affected the general re-
suit.
another notable feature of the cleo
ton has been the fact that although
great majorities OF votes were re-
corded for the Liberals in Glasgow.
shefield and Hull, owing to the divt.
SION OF these cities into single mem
ner districts, the Unionists returned
Nv Two members for Glasgow, three for.
Sieitield and one for Hull-six men,
| Ders In all. where they would not have
had one, had the cities voted as =
whole The narrowness of the mn
Joritles IN several constituencies de-
praves their vote of much Importance.
Inc Liberals carried Mile End bv
Two and Exeter by four while the
Unlonists carried Gloucester bv fonr
west Bromwich by five and West 81
cameras by eight. They lost a Lon
uoh seat by twelve, owing to the fact
| lhat the Liberal candidate. doctor
| was summoned from the polling booth
~ attend victim Of a railway COLI
sion at Willesden Junction
votes for Women, Fissco.
me attempt to run candidates on
the woran's suffrage platform was a
nasco. One polled twenty-five votes
IN London, another thirty-1ive in Glas-
cow AS the returning officers, costs
are heavy, each of these votes Tor
women cost the suffrage societies over
| 500 each. 80.
Beer seems to have played very
small part in this election. Water
was far more deadly element. Dis.
astrous floods in the Midlands kept
many voters from the polls.
Mr.. Asquith has definitely declared
that II is the Intention of his govern
tlent 10 grant home rule for ireland
h e. declaration prevents the opposi-
.ion from pretending that the voters
did not vote Liberal without fully in
tending that these REPRESENTATIVES.
should grant the Just claims Of ireland
But of course there can be no dues.
ton OF the production of home rule
Dill next session. There will be
resolution, but legislation cannot be
attempted at once.
II as seems probable, the Liberals
return with three-figure majority
there is little or no doubt but that
tho peers will pass veto bill. If thew
refuse the King would not refuse TO
act on the advice Of his constitu.
Honal advisers and use the royal
prerosauve to compel the submission
Q. the peers. OF this there is no doubt.
u the LIBERALS had come back with a |
greatly reduced majority he might
nave nesftated. AS things are, his
and the Commons the Lords are nowar
less -" 81
+
Morcton Frewen's Victory.
Feud In the Irish ranks has 50 20,
resulted In leaving things much as
they were. The only novelty is the
.uhopposed election OF Moreton FIRE.
Weu' blinetallist as an Independent
nationalist. AIoreton Frewen was for.
merry known as a Cattle King" In
wyoming, and he married Miss
Jerome, of New York, a sister Of win.
seon ehurchill's mother. He is an
A 'l landlord in a small way, and his
ADOPTION as an Independent Nation-
allst candidate Is political portent
In small way.
legislators at Washington who are
contemplating taking drastic action
against the white slave traffic will be
interested In a festival held on Thurs
!, uay n1ght IN Lincoln's Inn Hall to cele-
o.ate the twenty-tlfth anniversary Of
the formation of the National Vigil
lance Association. Lord Aberdeen,
vicerov or Ireland. presided, and
no was supported by the diplomatiol
CONSERVATIVES of all the great and
sniall powers OF Europe and the Min
lsl-I from Brazil. The banquet, which
was most successful, was an interna-
uonal declaration against the white
slave traffic. This association was
rounded twenty-five years ago. When
) published THE Maiden Tribute OF
Modern Babylon" twenty-five years
ago last Thursday, I was In jail for
the work. did In launching the move-
ment. This Thursday I was among
the guests 1t was well worth going
to prison ten times over to have con-
triouted to such great International
movement.
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