New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Strength of Radicals and
Weakness of Liberals
Are Biggest Surprises i'm
Wednesday, EIectio n
Conservatives Hold
Complete Control
Churchill Loses to a Pro.
hibitionist; 2 Members
of Cabinet Turned Down
By Arthur S. Draper

fFo37r me IT70hfe'S European BUre0R
Copyright. 1922. New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Nov. 16. - Premier
Bonar Laws government has re-
ceived national Endorsement in the
British general election. The result
was in doubt until tonight, when
returns from 603 out of 6I5 con-
stituencies showed a party standing
for the next Parliament as follorc:
Conservatives 346
LABOR ................ 1876
Asquith Liberals. ........., 62
Lloyd George Liberals. ........ "A
Miscellaneous ............... Is
This gives the Conservatives a
majority of at least SO votes in Par
Lament over all other parties-a
safe working majority.
Labor has gained sixty seats, in
creasing its representation from
seventy-six to 136.
King George will formerly omen
Parliament next Thursday. The new
House OF Commons will meet On Mon
day to elect a Speaker
Churchill and Henderson Lose
Winston Spencer Churchill, who with
Lord Birkenhead was ex-Premier L,oyd
Georges chief lieutenant. went down
to defeat in Dundee Arthur Henderson.
chief organizer of the Labor party.
, and Donald MacLean, herpert AS.
qulth's chief aid, were also beaten. So
were two of Premier Laws ministers.
q, F. Stanley, Lord Derby's brother,
and Sir Arthur Griffith Boscawen,
Minister of Health in the present
Cabinet. Churchill had the humiliat-
ing experience in Dundee of heinz
topped both by his Prohibitionist and
Labor opponent.
The real sensations Of the election,
however. are the strength denIon-
strated by the Labor party and the
weakness of the Asquith Liberals. The
Conservatives did, on the whole, Just
about as we'll as they were expected
to, but the Asquithians failed lament
ably to come back as most judges had
thought they would. If there is any
part of Great Britain which may be
called "red," the. election demonstrates
Tweed. where the Laborites and Com
munists registered sweeping successes.
The women showed tremendous in
terest at the polls, but they did not
lend notable support TO their own sex.
Viscountess Astor and Mrs. Wlntring-
ham. both of whom were members of
the late Parliament, being the only
women who are returned.
PHILIP Snowden Comes Back
Sir Hamar Greenwood, the former
Irish Secretary, was beaten, but Sir
John Simon, member of the old As
quith government and one of the ablest
lawyers in the countr.-, was returned.
Philip Snowden, the professed pacifst.
who was beaten in the general election
OF 1913 and also in later by-eiection,
also was elected. This, iraoea. to-
gether with the Labor strength and AS
quith weakness evidenced. is one OF the
remarkable features of the election
now returned to their pedestals.
e. Scrymgeour, who led in the Dun
dee constituency which toppled over
Winston Churchill and ran as a Prohi-
bitionist, will be the first man to sit
under the designation of Prohibitionist
in Parliament. On questions of gen
eral policy he will vote with the Labor
party. Two seats were filled by this
constituency. The second went TO Z.
D. Morel, the pacifist editor of "For-
eign Affairs" who was sentenced 80
distributing pacifst pamphlets.
The strength of Labor. which has
confcunded the prophets, who were un-
prepared for any such showing, has
come mostly from Scotland. On the
other hand, Labor's showing in the
London area, where all the power of
tne press tras focused against the
party's capital levy scheme, is dis
| tinct disappointment to Labor men. As
the second party in Parliament, how
ever, which as result of the election
Labor now is, it is bound to bring
much pressure to bear on the govern
ment and make its presence felt in the
enactment Of legislation.
| Labor Gains Debating Power
| Had the election been fought a year
ago there is little doubt that Labor
would have been in position to chaI-
lenge the other parties for the govern
ment OF the country. Furthermore. the
party is now much stronger in debaters
than 1t was in the last Parliament,
some of its newly retuyned members,
such as Ramsey Macdonald, Roden
! Buxton and Sir Arthur ponsonby. be-
| ing valuable additions TO It In par
iliamentary sense.
he amazing total OF the Labor vote
did not, however, come to 1t through
the country districts. Against the
Conservative strongholds It was able TO
make little advance. but in the indus
! trial districts, where there has been
much unemployment and an acute hous-
i ing shortage. its candidates have been
1 generally succes ssful. One of the an
i teresting features In this connection is
i The fact shat where a Labcrite was
matched against Georgian National
Liberal the Labor man almost inyari-
ably won.
Scotland has returned couple OF
4 Communists, as well as several Co-opy
orators, but generally it is the straight
Labor candidate who has carried the
/ industrial constituencies. Labor failed
however, to return s single one of rs
i women candidates.
Asauishians Top Georgians
i Ex-Premier Aaqnith's party has. IL J,
true. managed to increase Its paraa
7 nisntary representatien% q hut Ats ~as,,,