The Washington herald., 1922-11-16
Lloyd George Candidates
Crushed; Conservative.
Majority in Danger. .
LADY ASTOR WINS
BY 1908 MAJORITY
Conservatives L ose 20
Seats, With Total of
154i in Early Count.

LONDON. Nov. I6.-David Lloyd
George has been overwhelmed. the
Laborftes have made sensational
gains. and Andrew Bonar Laws
Conservative party appears TO have
emerged with only a narrow ma
jOrity as a result of yesterdsy's
general election.
Next TO the dramatic crushing Of
the Georgian Candidates. was the
amazing gain of the Labor party.
The virtual extinction of the for
mer Gusts Lloyd George from any
position he may have held or trad
ing with the government. The sue
cess Of the Laborites. indicating
the utter failure Of the anti-boIshe-
vik slogan raised aginst them.
threatens TO leave Bonar Law with
a most precarious majority in Com
mons.
The Conservatives. however. be-
lieve they will improve their posi-
tion when results from the PROV
inces become known.
Laborftes Gain N seats
At $3.50 this morning the party
standing was as follows:
Conservatives. 154; LaboriteS. Is;
Asquithians. Is; Georgians. 20. and
independents. s.
On the basis of these results. the
Laborites have made a net gain Of
80: the Asquithisns. 9. and the In-
dependents. /. The Conservatives
show a net loss of 20 seats and The
Georgians. 22.
The returns SO far come chiefly
from industrial districts.
North Bsttlesea. a suburb OF Lon
don. elected colored man. S. SAX
latvala. an Indian. who stood for
election on the labor ticket. de-
feated Asquithian and Georgian lib
eral opponents. He will be the
hrst Indian TO sit In the commons.
Four Leaders EIecteS.
The lesders of the four parties
were returned by their respective
constituencies. Premier Bonar Law.
leader Of the conservatives, was
returned to the commons from phe
Glasgow district.
Lloyd George, head of the ma
tionai liberals. was Automatically
reelected from the district Of Car
narvon. where he had no opposi-
tion.
Herbert Asquith. leader Of the
Wee Free" liberals. was seated by
the district of Paisley. and
r.. Clines. chief OF the laborites.
was returned by his Manchester
constituency.
Lady Astor Reelected.
Lady Nancy Astor. formerly os
Langhorne. Va, has been re-elected
to the house of commons at Piym-
outh.
The plurality Of Lady Axfor. who
stood for election on the Conserra-
1--WE platform. was 3.os3 over her
Laborite opponent.
She was elected at the faxt sen-
ersl election by a majority Of e.
203.
Complete returns gave Lady As
tor. l3.s2i: Brennan. Laborite. TO-
ssi: DR.. Bayly. 4.4s3.
Bonar Law was elected from the
Glasgow district. The returns
showed the following vote: Ronar
Law. Is.437: Mitchell. Labortte.
1888: Sir George Paish. Asquith-
ian. ISIS
The above returns show that Ro-
mar Law had four votes les, Than
the combined strength OF his two
opponents.
Dissatished with Coalition.
Having repudiated the coalition
OF Lloyd George for failure 20 .,t-
isfy the needs Of the present order
OF things. the vote against Lioyd
George may he considered as aim
ply a reiteration of dissattsfactton
with the coalitions performances.
The country. Judging from the
early returns seems TO have decided
that a more progressive and adan,.
,ole government Is scarcely pos H.
pie from the Conservative party.
which is generally consiiered re-
dictionary.
Therefore. the only outlet the
voters had to voice their disapprov.l
oi the Georgian LIberais and IRE
conservatives was to vote for the
Asquith and Labor candidates. Tn.
conservative government which
came into power under Ronar Iar-
follcwing the resignation OF IJovs
eeorge as premier. failed 70 develon
any policies that differed sharpiv
from those OF the Georgian cosli-
ton. There were no vital Issues IN.
vowed In the campaign. Bonar Law
only promising Tranquility