Evening star., 1922-11-14
STRENGTH OFF labor
GROWS IN BRITAIN
Cooperating Parties, on Eve
of Election, Revise Early
Sanguine Estimates.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. November 1.-THE last
words In Great Britain's election CAM
paign will be spoken tonight. The
electorate will go to the polls tomor-
row and pick a parliament from the
1886 candidates seeking seats in the
house Of commons.
In 373 constituencies the fight will
be a duel between candidates Of two
parties. In 242 other constituencies
the battle is complicated by the pres
ence of three or more contestants.
The wisest political seers are un-
will be. Some newspapers publish
estimates of how they believe the
various parties will rank when the
voters have had their say. but none
OF the forecasters express great con-
fidence in his own claims. To the
unbiased onlooker none has much
value. as every calculation is tinted
with the political views of the man
making the estimate.
Sanguine Estimates Revised.
During the campaign events have
led to a revision Of some Of the more
sanguine estimates. This was nota-
bly, the case in Glasgow and western
Scotland, where the united front pre-
sented by the unlonists and Lloyd
George liberals originally induced
cons,derabl. complacency. But now
a Glasgow dispatch to the Times
says the greatest concern is felt over
seats which were regarded as safe q
fortnight ago.
Labor is making on Clyde Its most
highly concentrated efforts. and Is
pressing the attack with increasing
confidence" the dispatch reported
There is a general feeling that II the
cooperating parties escape with the
forfeiture Of only six seats they will
have done well. Municipal polls at
Glasgow, unlike those throughout
England. showed significant growth
are responsible for the attack Of
nerves from which labor's opponents
are suffering"
Although some doubts have been ex-
pressed regarding Bonar Laws safety
in his campaign for election from the
spondent says nobody seriously be.
lieves the premier will be rejected.
But 1t is certain that his two oppo-
n.nts-Sir George Paish. liberal can
didate, and the laborite. Bailie
Mitchel-will poll more votes than 1t
Horne Almost Certain Winner.
Sir Robert Horne. who was chancel-
lor Of the exchequer in Lloyd
Georges cabinet, is regarded as an
almost sure choice Of the voters In
the Hillhead division Of Glasgow. but
Sir William Mitchell Thomson Is less
safe in the Maryhill division. where
Annie s. Swan is making a powerful
appeal for the vote Of women with
liberal interests. Labor also has
shown increasing strength against
the reelection Of Sir William.
The situation throughout the popu.
lous Lanarkshire is much the same.
according to the correspondent. who
believes that only unusual energy
can defeat the laborites in several
places
plexing the organizers is how the
women will vote. It is the experience
Of canvassers throughout the country
that women are taking more prac-
ever before. although their interest was
frequently considerable even before they
had the right to cast ballots.
Puts Women in Three Groups.
The Daily Mail quotes a man who
has had more than twenty years ex-
perience in election canvassing al
saying it is easier to impress ninety
nine men than It is to impress Just
one woman. He classified women
into three groupe-those who regard
q request for their vote as imperti-
nence. those who take politics from
ther husbands and those who dtstrus'
politics altogether and regard can.
vassers in the same light as tax col
lectors.
The gentleman who thus classified
| the feminine voters confessed that
he did not know which Of the three
classes was the worst. He finds the
first naughty. the second indiHeren,
and the third resentful. Like thou.
sands Of others. he has given up the
attempt to estimate how the feminine
vote will go tomorrow. Every one
agrees that woman is the sphinx o1
the election. and the general inabil.
! ity to read her riddle makes fore.
casts difficult II not worthless.