Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

tie and paCifist. was defeated The re-
suit there was: Sir Henry Normal, Goa
lition Liberal, 32.076: Lieutenant Com
mander Dean. Coalition Unionist, 30,15s {:
Philip Snowden, 1924. Blackburn has
two seats.
Five Women Defeated
OF the fourteen women candidates
only five SO far know their fate. and
they have been defeated
The first election return received to-
day shows the defeat of woman candi-
date. Mrs. Charlotte Despard, sister of
Nscount French, Lord Lieutenant OF
Ireland. She was defeated in North Bat
tersea by Richard Morris, Coalition Lib
eral. Morris received 1881 votes and
Mrs. Despard, who was Labor candi-
date, 5634.
In the Rusholm district OF Manchester.
Mrs. Patrick Lawrence. leading suf-
fragst, was defeated, the result being
r. b. Stoker. Coalition Unionist, 12,447 /;
W. Butterworth, 3699; Mrs. Lawrence.
Laborite, 2985.
In the Brentford and Chiswlck divi-
sion of Middlesex, Mrs. oliver Strachey
was defeated. The result there was :
Lieutenant Colonel Grant Morden. a
Canadian and Coalition Cnlonst. 9077 ;
Strachey, Independent, 1858.
Miss Mary Macarthur was defeated
in the Stourbridge division of Worces-
ter, the vote there being: J. W. Wilson.
Liberal. 9S20 Miss Macarthur. Labor,
1851 Victor Fisher, Coalition National
Democratic party. $3.50.
Miss Violet Markham MRS Carruth-
ers), sister of the late Sir Arthur Mark
ham, failed in her attempt to gain the
seat for the Mansfield division OF Not
tingham, formerly held by her brother.
The result was: William Carter, Labor
ite, 1857; G. w. s. jarrett. Coalition.
667S Miss Markham. Liberal. 1000; DR..
Tarachand. Independent, S7S.
j. Ramsay Macdonald, Socialist La
borite, has been defeated overwhelm-
ingly for e-election from the west di-
vision OF Leicester. His opponent was
Joseph f. Green, secretary Of the Inter-
national Arbitration and Peace Assocla-
tion and a Coalition Laborite.
FiTst Reform Parliament
The coming Parliament--the first
under tho new reform act-will have 7o7
members, or thirty-seven more than the
last or these 1872 have been returned
before today, either unopposed or fol-
the universities where conditions enable
an Immediate declaration. Those re,
turned comprised fifty-one Coalition
Unionists, thirty-one Coalition Liberals
| twelve Laborites, one independent one
Irish Nationalists and twenty six Sinr
| Feiners.
! Newspaper predictions OF a great vic
| tory for the Coalition Government were
based on the home vote. According to
some reports the soldiers ana sailors
abroad were mostly, Indifferent to the
election and did not trouble TO vote
Other reports differ and the estimates
| OF the number of soldiers and sailors
who voted were from 20 TO 10 per cent
OF the whole. r .r..
The I.aborites apparently banked or
tho poidiers' vote by the help OF which
some expect labor would have 100 seats
In the new Parliament. Other estimates
gave labor no more than seventy
OF the sixteen women Candidates three
were thought TO have a good chance OF
winning, including Cristobal PankhuTst
II was generally conceded that the Sim
Fein would sweep nonunlonist Ireland
some estimates giving them seventy
seats and the natlonalists only ten.
Posters will appear In every parish
in Ireland today announcing that the
Irish republic has come into being, says
the Express.
The newspapers adds that the Slnr
FeIners. In the recent election, swept
Ielnster, Munster and connaught.
Seventy members OF Parliament were
elected by the party, but they win not
take their seats. II Is stated by the Ex.
press that a Central Sim F'eln council
win call itself the Irish parliament II
the Government orders It's dlsbandnent
| Il is stated, II viii establish iteelf else
where and, ~ neeeHsery move from
place 20 place