Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-29
COALITION ELECTIONS
 UNANIMOUS
St. Pat1ick's Division Will
 Be Represented in Par
 lament by 8 Woman. 1

Londen, Dec 28.--The coalition government of Premier LloyG-George, has won sweeping victory, beyond all expectations, i'll the elections for the new parliament. Tn a house of ''' members. the prime nliniste" Will have more than 800 seats for his supporters.
 AmAng those who opposed the cOa. litlcnsts are the Sinh Feiners, who have secured 7j seats, but. as these members will refuse to go to the house Of commons. the strength Of the government will thereby be in. creased rOportionately.
 or fourteen women candidates, only one will be entitled to sit in the house of commons, namely. Sim Finer. Countess Markievicz, who was elected for St. Patrick di- vision of Dublin city. But as the sim feiners refuse to sit in Vest minister, the house of commons will, as hitherto, be composed entirely of males
 All the other women candidates, including many of the foremos. in the womG's movemasi, Were reject ed by the constituencies. Christa- bel Pankhurst came the nearest to these to being elected, being defeat ed only by narrow margin by a l.a5orite.
 The Sim F'einers, as expected, not cnly swept Ireland, but gained their seats with enormous majorltYes, leaving the Nationalist representa- ticn in the new parliament a pare seven members. John Dillon. the Nationalist leader was defeated by E. de Valera, Simn Feiner, for East Mayo. by a majority of over 4,000. Joseph Devlin, however, defeated de Valela for the West Belfast seat. De Valera also was candidate in the South Down constituency.
 A prominent feature of the polling revealed by the count, is the impera- tive sm9llness of the polls compar- ed with the registered number Of electors. No figures are available yet as to what extent the army and navy have voted. It should also be noted that defeat of the Asquithians, especially the former ministers, in most cases can be attributed in part, to split votes in three cornered con- sttuencies.
 Not only has not coalition minis ter been defeated. but most of them were reported by extraordinary ma Lloyd Georges majority is about l2,' iorities. For instance, Premier Ioyd- Georges majority is about. 12,- 900, Winston Churchill's 15,o00, and Andrew Bonar Laws 13,O00.
 
 quite common among the coalltlon- ists On the other hand, the Pacl- fists were almost in every case lg- nominously defeated by neavy votes. The rejected candidates nthls group included Phillip SnnWden, James Ramsay Macdonald, Wl'lan ' An. derson, Labor member ter Attercllft dvsin of Sheffeld); Arthur Hender- con the labor leader; Robert l.. Outhwaite. (I.iheral for Hanlay); Frederick w. Jowett, (Ilabor memher ] for Hanley); Frederick w. Jowett, 1 uabor member fo" West Bradfcrd} ! Georae Lansherv. ,former S0cla:.St member for the Bow an1 Brom'ey division of Tower Ramsets), ana Charles F. Trevelyan, formerly par { liam ,ntarv secTotary for etiucalion.
 Among the surprises of tfe cleo tion was the da'aat of Atrpeft n. Aserith the fouler pren"ar II. vas reiected mje in company with some of his ablest lieutenants, including, Sir John simon. former home secretary; Reg. uald McKenna, former chanceilot oi the excheuuer; Walter Ruuc'man, 'or- ,me mer president tof the Board of Trade; Her Her5ert Samuel, former postma ster aav, reneral: Charles F. Masterson, for 1nar chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- caster nd others. .~. o,oo+;on.
 Labor fared badly in the elections $ though better than .he e,,,et asquIesi at leasi 1on members, whereas they have only aupoximately aup 75. of whom ten are ,e appap1itionists. Even this however IS coar,' ,,uch larger representation than 1abor had in the old parliament.