LIBERAL DEFEAT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1382, 7 March 1912, Page 5

LIBERAL DEFEAT.

BIG TURNOVER AT BY-ELECTION. Bj Telecrarh—Press Association-Coryrlchl London, March 5 The South Manchester by-election, ri ndered necessary by the appointment of Sir A. Haworth, the sitting member, n; a Junior Lord of the Treasury in succession to Captain Guest, resulted: Mr. Glazebrook (Unionist) ... 7051 Sir A. Haworth (Liberal) ... 6(72 ■ Unionist'majority ' 1079 (Rcc. March 6, 10.35 p.m.) London, March G. The result of itboitSouth Manchester election was chiefly due to the unpopularity of the National Insurance Act, The Liberal!;, while (hey liav« retained most of their seats at the by-elections since December, 1910, when tho present House was elected, have in most cases come back with reduced majorities. Sir Arthur Haworth was returned unopposed at tho last general election. The -scat has been strongly Liberal since 1906, when Sir Arthur Haworth (then Mr. Haworth) was elected by a majority of 4252. In the general, election of January, 1910, ho wns returned by a majority of 2152. Writing of the -difficulties confronting the Government in connection with tho Insurance Act "Auditor Tantum," in the "Fortnightly Review," said:—"Mr. LloydGeorge has had to persuade all the employed classes under the income tax limit to submit to the principle of compulsory insurance, and to pay contributions as well as to receive benefits. Their employers, of course, have also to pay their full shave, and the State helps to swell the joint contribution; but those are not tho features of tho scheme on which large sections of the democracy have fastened. What they are chiefly concerned about is fhat threepence or fourpence a week will bo deducted from their wages, whether they like it or not. And they have been so assiduously taught to look up to Mr. Lloyd-George as the bountiful giver of absolutely "free benefits, cunningly abstracted with Welsh adroitness' from tho pockets of the well-to-do, that there is a good deal of sullen resentment that they should be made—not asked—to pay. They did not expect it of him, arid they do not like it."