GREAT UNIONIST VICTORY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 223, 13 June 1908, Page 10

GREAT UNIONIST VICTORY.

INTENSfe EXCITEMENT AT ' MANCHESTER. The result of tho North-West Manchester election was declared on iipril 24 as follows: —Mr. W. Joynson Hicks, [1., 5417; Mr. W. Churchill, L., 4988; Mr. Dnii Irving, Soc., 276; Unionist majority over Liberal, 429; Unionist majority over Socialist, 5141. Manchester went mad with excitement when tho result of tho poll was made known. Vast crowds paraded tho streets oheering lustily, houses wero illuminatod, rockets fired, the wholo town ringing fr.om end to end with delirious joy. Inside tho Town Hall wore over five hundred people who had obtained special invjtar tions, and they were massed in. the; corridors like a public meeting, seething with oxcitement. I'ho ballot boxes were all in tho oounting room by. 8.15, and as forty counters, wero ongaged the figures were out at. 9.30— a.capital-piece of work. : Directly it was seeu that Mr. JoynsonHieks had won, Mr. Churchill was the first to congratulate him. "I must say you are a real brick to say what you have said," replied Mr. Jo.vnson-Hicks, and everyone felt that tho tension had been relieved by that manly, exchange of courtesies.

■ Outside in tho corridor the first hint of the result was obtained at 9.20, when some-' one came from tho counting room and whispered "Hicks." Tho whoia throng, which was hushed in its 'anxiety, burst into a long yell of victorious joy. The Lord Mayor's dignity' was disturbed by tbo turmoil; but he managed to road tlio figures, and a wild ru3h 'to the telephones of nil tho offices began. Everybody rushed pellrmell out of tho rootn into tlio corridors, shrieking with bxcitement. They wero met by the crowd in tho corridors, who' sprang upon tho reporters and nearly tore tho clothes off their backs. "What's tho majority?" "What 'are the figures?" they shouted, and then they yellod and cheered, and shouted the name of "Hicks" till their throats cracked. Staid old' gentlemen went half-frantie ;in their glee, stood on seats and waved their hats. Women waved handkerchiefs,, and. became almost hysterical. Such a _ scone the. Manchester Town Hall ' never witnessed before. ■ " - The peoplo waited for Mr. Joynson Hicks and welcomed him with a long, doafening roar ■of cheers. .They seized him in an instant and throw him upon thoir shoulders, and thon carried him along tho corridor, while tho wholo building rang with their song of victory. v