THE VETO ELECTIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 14530, 5 December 1910, Page 6

THE VETO ELECTIONS.

ENGLAND (465 MEMBERS). LONDON, December 4. , The following are the results of contested elections: WEST HAM (NORTH). Misterman (L.) 6,657 Wild (U.) 5,760 [Previous election—C. F. G. Masterman (L.), 7,023; E. Gray (U.), 6,133.] WEST NEWINGTON. Captain Norton (L.) 4,038 W. Brookes (U.) 2,498 [Previous election—Captain C. Norton (L.), 4,350; Warwick Brookes (U.), 3,938.] NORTH CAMBERWELL. Dr Macnamara (L.) 5,038 Goldsmid (U.) 4,056 [Previous election—Dr Macnamara (L.), 5,593; S. Hoffnung-Goldsmid [{].), 4,511.] READING. Sir R. Isaacs (L.) 5,094 Wilson (U.) 4,995 [Previous election—Rufus Isaacs, K.C., (L.), 5,264; Major A. L. Renton (U.), 5,057. Sir Rufus Isaacs, K.C., was reelected Unopposed on accepting office as Solicitor-Generu in March, and was also unopposed when he was promoted to the Attorney-Generalship.] MANCHESTER (NORTH WEST). Sir G. Kemp (L.) 5,114 [Previous election—-Sir G. Kemp (L.), 5,930; W. Joynson-Hicks (U.), 5,147.] BRISTOL (NORTH). Right Hon. A. Birrell (L.) 6,410 Magnus (U.) 5,024 [Previous election—A. Birrell (L.), 6,805; M. Woods (U.). 5,459.] EXETER. H. St. Maur (L.) 5,786 H. Duke (U.) 4,782 [Previous election—H. E. Duke (U.), 4,902; H. St. Maur (L.), 4,876.] BRISTOL (EAST). Hobhouse <L.) 7.729 Hannan (U.) 4,263 [Previous election—C. E. Hobhouse (L.), 6,804; T. H. Batten (U.), 4.035; F. Shephard (Lab.), 2,255.] KINGS LYNN. Ingleby (U.) 1,765 Bowles (Inl. Freetrader) ... 1,665 [Previous election—T. Gibson Bowles (L.), 1,900; Hon. E. Cadogan (U.), 1,638.] GREAT GRIMSBY. ■ Sir G. Doughty (U.) ... 7,903 Wing (L.) ..." 7,205 [Previous election—T. H. Wing (L.), 7,772; Sir G. Doughty (U.), 7,450]. SALFORD (SOUTH) Barlow (U.) 3.666 Russell (L.) 3,459 [Previous election —Hilaire Belloc (L.), 3,952; C. A. M. Barlow (U.), 3,636.] WARRINGTON. Harold Smith (U.) 5,162 Crosfield (L.) 4.916 [Previous election—A. IT. Crosfield (L.). 5,256; 11. Pierpont (U.). 5.103.] WIGAN. Neville (U.) 4.673 Twist (Lab.) 4,110 [Previous election—H. Twist (Lab.), 4,803; R. J. N. Neville (U.). 4.293.] ASHTON UNDER-LYNE. Aitkcn (U.) 4.044 Scott (L.) 3,842 [Previous election—A. IT. Scott (L.). 4.039; H. Whitelev (U.), 3,746; W. Gee (Soc), 413.] DARLINGTON. Herbert Pike Pease (U.) ... 4.801 Maddison (L.) 4.775 [Previous election—J. T. Lincoln (L.), 4,815; H. P. Pease (I'.l. 4.786.] CAMBERWELL (PECKHAM). Richardson (L.) 5,027 Gcoch (U.) 4,986 [Previous election—H. C. Gooch (U.), 5,330; A. Richardson (L.), 5,247.]

ROCHESTER. Lamb (L.) 2.609 Ridley (U.) 2.456 [Previous election—S. Fordo Ridley (U.), 2,675; Ernest H. Lamb (L.). 2.543.] MANCHESTER (SOUTHWEST). Needham (L.) ' 3.590 Colefax (U.) 3,331 [Previous election—lT. A. Colefax (U.), 3.111; C. T. Needh.un (L). 3,004; J. M. M'Lachlan (Lab.), 1,218.] OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Sir W. R. Anson (U.), unopposed. Lord Hugh Cecil (U.l, unopposed. [Previous election—Sir W. R. Anson (U.) and Lord Hugh Cecil (U.I, unopposed.] YORKSHIRE (BARNSLEY). Joseph Walton (L.), unopposed. [Previous election—Joseph Walton (L.), 12,425; A. W. Oroscr (U.), 5,055.] KENT (ST, AUGUSTINE). Right Hon. A. Akcrs-Douglas (U.), unopposed. [Previous election—A. Akers-Douglas (U.), 9,500; - Ling (L), 4,111.] SOMERSETSHIRE (WELLINGTON). Sir A. F. Acland Hood (U.), unopposed. [Previous election—Sir A. F. Acland Hood (U.), 5,216; W. King (L), 4,150.] .SURREY' (WIMBLEDON). Henry Chaplin (U.), unopposed. [Previous election— 11. Chaplin (U.), 14,445; A. L. Holland (L), 8,930.] NORTIIUM BERLAND (WANSBECK). C. Fenwick (L), unopposed. [Previous election—C. Fenwick (L), 10,872; C. Percy (U.), 4,650.] IRELAND (103 members). DUBLIN UNIVERSITY Sir E. Carson, K.C. (U.), unopposed. J. H. Campbell (U.), unopposed. [Provious election—Sir Edward Carson (U.) and James H. Campbell (U.), unopposed.] WATERFORD. John E. Redmond (N.), unopposed. [Previous election—J. E. Redmond (N.), unopposed.] RESULTS SO FAR. OPPOSED AND* UNOPPOSED RETURNS. LONDON, December 4. The following is the state of parties :

THE FIRST DAYS WORK LOSSES AND GAINS. LOUD ROSEBEEY AND "ASSES." MR ASQUITH'S BIBLICAL STORY. THE HOME SECRETARY TWICE MOBBED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

THE STREET CROWDS. WATCHINGRETURNS. LONDON, December 4. Dense and eager crowds congregated in many centres in London in drizzling rain awaiting tho results until long after midnight. WHAT LIBERALS STAND FOR. THE TORIES AND THEIR RACHEL. LONDON, December 4. (Received December 5, at 9 a.m.) Addressing 5,000 people at Newcastle, Mr Asquith said it was strange how the Unionists had suddenly shifted their ground and changed the cut of their uniform. Tho Liberals stood where they did last January for Frectrade and a free House of Commons. It was difficult to keep pace with the bewildering series of their opponents' twists, gyrations, and somersaults. The Tories had discovered it was unsafe to light the election on Tariff Reform and the Lords, hence they were disguising the one issue and side-tracking the other. A referendum was meant to prevent the Liberals, when they had a majority, carrying through any great scheme'of legislation without a fresh reference to the people. For that parody and caricature of democracy the Tarillites had already waited seven years, but, like Jacob, they were likely to wait another seven, and they would never get their Rachel. She would no longer bo in the first ilush of youth when they did get her. Meanwhile, the notion that the people required special protection against their own chosen representatives was the most fanatic that could be conceived. A MESSAGE TO LONDON. GIVE ENGLAND A LEAD. LONDON, December 4. (Received December 5, at 8.5 a.m.) In a message to the electors of London Mr Asquith asks them to give all England a lead. Ho adds that tho vital principle of representative government is at stake. If you establish it to-day it will bo beyond all possibility of future assault. .MR BALFOUR AT GRIMSBY. A FANCIFUL HOUSE OF COMMONS. LONDON, December 3. Mr Balfour addressed 10,000 people at Grimsby on behalf of Sir George Doughty, who was defeated last January. He said that men of moderate opinions were coming over to the Conservatives. If the Liberals' proposals were carried, the time when the House of Commons would be a place for free debate would bo gone for ever. The Government meant to give oneChamber rule, that Chamber working under the gag. The actions of the House of Commons under the group system might not in the least represent tho people's settled will. MR CHURCHILL'S RUSH. LONDON, December 3. Mr Churchill, who had spoken t.t Cheshiro earlier, took a special train toGrimsby in order to answer Mr Balfour, and spoke till midnight. Relays of motors carted fragments of Mr Balfour's speech to enable Mr Churchill to reply to it. He said that if tho House of Lords' reforms were supported they would create a new heaven and a new earth, and very likely a new something else also. They were to be thoroughly democratic, thoroughly impartial, and thoroughly Tory. [The Unionists have recaptured this seat.]

LORD ROSEBERY IN EDINBURGH. HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM. WHAT THE ELECTION WILL NOT DO. LONDON. December 4. (Received December 5, at 8.15 a.m.) Speaking to an enthusiastic audience of 4.000 people at Edinburgh, Lord Rosebery said that parties seemed changed. The platforms of the Unionists were wise and moderate, while the Liberals wero resorting to a Single Chamber Government. He added that the Conservatives bad come round to his views on the hereditary question. Tho man who never changed his opinions was an ass. The Lords question might have been settled, but for the, Government maintaining its hereditary and irresponsible character to suit themselves. What jot or tittle of reform had the House of Lords received from tho Liberals? It was mere cant to denounce what the Government aloilo were keeping in existence. Whatever tho result of this election, it could not settlo constitutional questions. MR A. CHAMBERLAIN'S PROMISE. LONDON, December 3. Speaking at Darlington, Mr Austen Chamberlain said that if a Unionist Government wore in power they would frame a measure of Tariff Reform which, if the electors disliked it and said "No," would be the signal for his retirement from the Government. LORDS AND THE COMMONS. LONDON, December 4. (Received December 5, at 8.27 a.m.) Speaking at Newcastle, Mr A. Chamberlain said that tho Unionists proposed, in matters of pure finance, that the Commons should have, besides the last, tho only word. MR CHURCHILL AGAIN MOBBED. AND REFUSED"A HEARING. LONDON, December 4. (Received December 5, at 8.5 a.m.) Mr Lloyd' George is suffering from a cold, and lias lost his voice. The appearance of Mr Winston Churchill | at Lincoln was the signal for pandemonium among tho crowd. Mr Churchill was twice refused a hearing, and there were several ugly rushes and free fights before he departed. The Unionist candidate (Sir RciTJert Filmer) was struck in the face, but he returned the blow. The representation of the city remains unchanged. [lf these last words refer to the City of Lincoln, the representative is (January figures) Mr C. H. Roberts (L.) 5,402, who defeated Sir B. Filmer (U.) by 2,166.] .

THE REFERENDUM. LONDON, December 4. (Received December 5, at 8.27 a.m.) In the course of a letter Lord Loreburn says that tho referendum implies that a direct question be put to the electorate over the head of their duly chosen representatives, in order, if possible, to secure their assent to the general principle underlying any such question, although thoy as electors may differ altogether on its details. A DIVIDED ELECTORATE. LONDON, December 4. (Received December 5, at 8.15 a.m. Tho Liberal and Radical Association at Bow have urged their members to support Mr Lansburv, the Socialist candidate for Mile End. MORE AMERICAN DOLLARS. NEW YORK, December 3. The American United Irish League have sont a further sum of £2,000 to aid the Nationalists in thei; fight in Great Britain. Subscriptions aro arriving from everywhere in tho United States. AN INSOLENT OFFER. LONDON, December 4. (Received December 5, at 9 a.m.) Speaking at Finsbury, and referring to the American offer to Mr Lloyd George to lecture in tho United States, Lord Ampthill said there was a time when such an insult to a Minister of the Crown would have been regarded as a national insult. THE SWINC OF THE PENDULUM. Tho following table will show whero. changes in parties have been made : (Jains Lib. Con. King's Lynn 1 Grout Grimsby 1 Sal ford South' 1 Warrington —■ ■ 1 Wiga.n ' 1 Ashton-under-Lyne 1 Darlington 1 Camborwell Div 1 Rochester 1 Manchester (S.W.) 1 Exeter 1 SOME FEATURES OF THE CAMPAIGN. Both sides seem to have made desperate efforts to capture Greater Grimsby. On tho evening before the poll Mr Balfour addressed the electors on behalf of the Conservative candidate, while Mr Churchill, after speaking at Cheshire, took a special train to Grimsby in the endeavor to harden up the electors in favor of the lato member. The election resulted in tho rejection of the latter by 698 votes. Last January Sir G. Doughty (who married <.n •U'struiian ladv some two vears ago) was defeated bv Mr T. 11. Wing by 322 votes, so that the Unionist gain represents over 1,000 votes. The Solicitor-General's majority of 207 at the bust election fell to one short of a hundred. Manchester remains trim to her Ireetradc principles. Mr Bonar Law, the most formidable advocate of Tariff Reform, has failed to win b;ick Manchester N.W. for )iis party, and Manchester South-west has given a victory to the Goveriunent. Mr C Fenwick, the Trades Union candidate, who refused to sign tho Labor party's pledge, has been returned unopposed for Wansbeck. The Irish Nationalist Leader again has a walkover for Watorford. The Torv Whip (Sir A. F. AelandHood), who during Mr Balfour's reign saved his party from many a parliamentary defeat, is not called upon to contest his seat.

Mr Hilaire Belloc, famous as an essayist and speaker, disappears from Sal ford, awl iiis successor in the choice of the official organisation loses the seat for Iho Liberals. King's Lynn, which of late years lias ben more frequently Unionist than Liberal, rejects Mr Gibson Bowles-, who threw up his party on the- question of Tar ill" Reform and was returned in January as an Independent Freetrader. Peckham (South London), where was fought the fiercest of the bye-elections in 1908, lias been wrested from the Unionists. Tho polls in some electorates are not so heavy as tlwre of last January. WHAT "WINSTON" HEARD. According to the, l/ondon ' Daily Express.' the Home Secretary was nno of a party at the Apollo Theatre, and for tho iirsl time had an opjwrtunity of seeing himself on the stage—in Hie Follies' "Polled I'ageant." 11l this lie appears as one. of the Kings of England, and speaks the following lines: 1 am Winston (loud applause). 1 am Winston (horrid pause). Tho only thing that hinders nie Is my infernal modesty. I often wonder what on earth Tho world was like before my birth ; And now I've wen tho kings of yoreIt only makes me wonder more. WHY UK LEFT POLITICS. Si; Horace Avory, shaking at a dinner given by the Municipal a.nd County Club in honor o'f his appointment as a judge of the High Court, told an anecdote of how lie was led to throw over politics. " I defended," he said, ''a huge number of strikers—at Miudslone, J think it was—who had fallen foul of the law, and they all got oil'. Within threo days of the verdict I was invited to stand as the Radical candidate for that part.—(Laughter.) A few months later I prosecuted a number of Socialists and extreme Radicals who had created a disturbance in the vestry hall in the same district. The men were convicted, and within a few days I was invited to stand as the Conservative, candidate.— (Laughter.) I considered the two offers, aid decided to refuse, to have anything moro to do with politics." A BISHOP'S TRIBUTK TO MR LLOYD GEORGE. Tho Binhop of Carlisle, preaching at the reopening of St. Nicholas Church, Flimby, said he was no politician, but ho would advise his hearers to read tho speech of the Chancellor of tho Exchequer in London. On that occasion a preal politioian became a- (great preacher. Humbler peoplo had been saying tho same things, but now that tho Chancellor had said them, due recognition would bo given to these truths. He did not think there was a. single thing in Mr Lloyd George's remarks that lie (the bishop) had not said many limes, because, they wero true. For instance, they knew that idleness was a curse, but idleness of the rich was a greater curse than idleness of the poor, and unemployment of the poor was less harmful than unemployment of the rich. Tho bishop referred to the faot that in the old Jewish Church there was a law that each boy had to loam a trade, and ho wished there was 6ome 6uch law in tho land in which we lived.

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