Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-30
GEORGE WINS WITH
327 MAJORITY IN
COALITION SWEEP
Premier s Victory Amazes London;
Women Vote TO Uphold the
Nations S Great War Leader.
LABOR WAS BADLY ROUTED
nv Associated Press 10 Every Evening

BV aNsDCIafFT PRESS 10 Every fIVtNfaE
London. Dec % Prelnler lloyd
George and tho coalition government won
y more sweeping victory ~ the general
election than had been expected Not
only was Fl II tsquitll. former premier.
defeated. hut his personal following from
the House IF Commons has been reduced
t. thirty-scvcn. II is believed that h
new seat will hc found for him by one
of his follower rc~ignng III his favor as
soon as Parliament meets.
In the defeat ~ Reginald Mckcnna,
Walter Runicman Sir John Simon, Her
bert Samuel and Thomas MeklmeH
Wood the front Of the opposition hrneh
is deprived Of All its principal occupants.
There have been Suggestions that Nlr.
Asquith might retire from politics rs i
result of his defeat. but this view Is not
encouraged bv his personal friends Should
he retire however he would probably te
succeeded in the liberal leadership by Mir
Mckcnna. or Sir John Simon.
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Is hile fhc Labor party. as whole.
haS strengthened lis numerical following
in Parliament, sone ef its most prominent
members have lost their sea:s The most
notable defeat was that ii Arthur Hem
derson the Dc facto leader Of tie old
guard : II the lator parfV, The fact that
James Ramsay Macdonald and Philip
~nOwden lest IS also striking. The de-
fcatcd women candidates include Mss
Chr~tabc panFhurst. Mrs DeSpard sister
Of Field Marshal French. Mrs Fethiek
Lawrence. Aiies Violet Markham aud
Miss Mary Macarthur
SIM FFIN VICTORY pazING.
In Ireland the .ltceees ef the Sim Fcn
party was sweeping only seven members
ot the old nationalist party succeeding IN
escaping defeat Iohl Dillon, chairman
Of the Nationalist party lost his seat for
last Mavo fo Edward de Valera
Slnn Fc'ners after the announcement Of
the election results, blew up the monu-
menf erected by public subscription to
the Cork soldiers who had fought III the
South African war
Complcte returns from the elections
for the new House Of Commons give the
following results
Coalition Cnion!sts, 33i, Coalition
Liberals ~; Coalition Labor. 10; total
'coalitionists IL total Of other parties,
236: coalition majority. 235: coalition
majority WITH III | monIsts, 81 grand
total 7O7
All coaiitionstS with the tnionists
and the National arty may be re
garded roughly Is supporting Llovd
George The only opposition viii be
formed by the ASqlnthian Liberals La
boritcs and independents
One feature OF the returns Is the
dearth Of very small maIorities nder
the new Franchise act, every candidate
who tai. - obtain one-eiqhth of the
votes poled IN his constituency forfeus
!, .I.,-..5f4 ..f IN -4.rItffr Nj -.
I30 candidates are victims of this rule
Analysis shows that London has
gone almost sohdlv for the coalition
Only three Independent Liberals were
returned IN London and the two Labor
ties returned are both coalitomsts
Coalition leaders say the principal f;ic-
tors which contributed to Their triumph
were the votes Of the women and of the
soldiers. The former made the ma
jority secure, and the soldiers vote, ae-
cording to one leader. came later as a
tidal wage IN favor Of LLOYD George
An analysis Of the polling shows that
London aud Scotland p0iled less than
half Their total electorate, while English
horoughs und counties polled little more
than half and " aies just half
Most Of the east out ballots were those
of soldiers who wrote across them such
remarks aS NCnu lis nome and we VIII
vote. or we have no information ahoat
the candIdates
Labor secured on striking victory in
St IIelen~ Lancashire, where the can
ddate Of the dock workers, James Sex
ton, defeated Riphy + " Swift, Union
isl. for what always had been regarded
a safe seat MIR Swift had held the seat
since December 1910
The net result Of the election Is
summed up N the papers rs Il per-
Sonal triumph for Premier Lloyd George
in the disappearance Of two great par
ties. the Liberals and Irish Nationalists.
The papers without exception eni-
phasizc that the election is not merely
a great triumph. but great oppor-
tunity for Iloyd George, rs the country
insists on the carrying ont Of vast
program Of social reform They declare
that the governing classes IRE on trial
and that If they fail to satisfy tie coun-
try a painful reckoning awaits them at the
next election, which may come sooner
than Is now apparent. In thr connection
il is pointed out that labor largely voted
Coalition in the expectation that u policy
agreeable to labor would be pursued