Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-29
BRITISH ELECTORS
GIVE WAR PREMIER
SWEEPING VICTORY
Coalition Government Has
Great Majority in
Commons.
FORMER PREMIER ASQUlTH
LOSES HIS SEAT IN HOUSE
Liberal Leader Beaten After 81
Years as Member From
East Fife.
JOHN DILLON ALSO LOSES RACE
Laboritc Leader and Associate, Philip
Snowdcn, Showed Under-WOmcn
Candidates Generally lose.
FORMER PREMIER ASQUITH
LOSES HIS SEAT IN HOUSE
JOHN DILLON ALSO LOSES RACE
Laboritc Leader and Associate, Philip
S'"wdcn, Showed Undcr-Womcn
Candidates Generally lose.
tBy Associated Press.l

LONDON. December 2s.-The broad
features Of the election results an
nounced to-day are the sweeping tri-
umph OF the Lloyd George coalition. the
complete rout OF the Asqui,hians, tn.
pacihsts and the women candidates.
Y %ho' perhaps most significant OF ali.
me victory Of the Sim teiners ali
fdlong the line
That the coalition government would
oe victorious had been foregone con
csuH!on. despite the rumblings OF ru-
NOR between the polling and the count
lns OF the votes that labor would
make an unexpected showing. But
mat Lloyd George would command com
pIcteiy an overwhelming majority in
tnc new house III the proportion Of
almost five TO one had never been con-
tcmplatcd. even by the most sanguinc
coalitionists. And since coalition. as
now operates. is distinctly more
conservative than Liberal in It's COM
position and tendencies. this result OF
ne nrst election under the extended
ir@nch!se and with the participation
OF millions Of women voters is most
suggestive
Premier Lloyd George. with only
touF results yet to be announced. has
~ seats for his coalition out OF 4
membership of 7O7 The Sim Feiners
Rave elected seventy members and La
Dor approximately scNcnt:-hvc.
-! fourteen women candidates. only
one VIII be entitled 10 sit In the House
81 Soinnons namely. Sim Feiner.
Countess Markicvicz, who was elected
!or st: Fatrick's Division of Dublin
city But as the Sim Fciners refuse
70 sit at Westminster. the House of
Commons Will, as hitherto. be composed
entirely Of males.
All the other women candidates. in :
Guiding many OF the foremost in the
women's movements. We're rejected By,
their constituencies. Christa bel Pank-
hurst came the nearest of those being z
..ecied, being defeated only by a mar
row majority By a Laborite.
SiNN FEINERs SWEEP
IRELAND AND GAIN SEATS
The Sim Feiners. as expected, not
seas with enormous majorities. leav-
ing the Nationalis; representation in
the new Parliament bare seven mem
bcrs. John Dillon. the Nationalist
leader. was defeated by r. De Valera.
Sim Feiner, for East Mayo. by ma :
Io:ity of over 1000. Joseph Deviin.
moWerer. defeated De Valera for the
prominent feature OF the polling
revealed oy the count is the compare
liNe smallness OF the polls compared
Win the registered number OF electors
III should also be noted that the de
feat OF the Asquithians. especially the
former ministers, in most cases can be
attributed in part TO split votes in
three -cotnered constituencies
Not only has no coalition minister
been defeated. but most of them were
reelected by extraordinary majorities
For instance. Premier Lloyd George S
majority is about 1900; Winston
Churchills. 1000. and Andrew Ronar
Laws, 1900.
NAJoRITII;S WELL. OVER
THE 10000 MARK
Majorities we'll over 10000 were quite
common among the coalitionists on
the other hand, the pacihsts were ul-
most IN every case ignominiously de-
feated. The rejected candidates in this
group included Philip Snowden. James
Ramsay Macdonald, William c. Ander-
son Labor member for Attercline Di-
vision of Sheitield). Arthur Henderson.
the labor leader; Robert l.. Cultivate
Liberal for Hanley), Frederick w
Iowett Labor member for West Brad
ford), George I.unsbury (former So
cialist member for the Bow and I3rom
ley Division of Tower Hamiets). and
Charles y. Trcvelyan, former parIia
mentary secretary for education.
Among the surprises Of the election
was the defeat OF former Premier AS
quith. He is rejected in company with
most of his ablest lieutenants, includ
ing Sir John Simson, former Home
Secretary; Reginald McKenna former
Chancellor of the Exchequer; Walter
Board OF Trade; Herbert Samuel
former Postmaster General: Charles r.
Masterman, former chancellor OF the
Duchy of Lancaster. and others.
Labor Jared badly in the elections
though better than the Asuuithians
They had expected to elect at least 100
members, whereas they have only. an
proSimateiy. seventy-rive, of whom ten
are coalitionists. Even this. however
is much larger representation tb,n
labor had in the Old Parliament