HOME ELECTIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12982, 25 January 1910, Page 5

HOME ELECTIONS.

SUMMARY. Total number of seats 670 Total returned 513 Returns to come ..... 157 Present Position. " Unionist gains 101 Liberal gains 15 PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES. Liberals 195 Labour 32 Nationalists 67 Unionists 219 EFFECT OF BUDGET REJECTION Forced Borrowing.

Press Association .—Telegraph .—Copyright. Received January 25, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, January 24.Mr Rnnciman, speaking- at Retford, said that owing to the rejection of the Budget the Government were obliged to ‘borrow five millions last week and five million the week before. They were arranging for three millions more. They were forced borrowers, and, therefore, were compelled to pay 3;) per cent, interest instead of 3J. THE LORDS’ VETO. LONDON, January 24. Mr Masterman, in a speech at Rcdliill, said the Liberals could do nothing until the Lords’ veto wa.s broken. It might •require another appeal to the country before many' months^ A UNIONIST VIEW. LONDON, January 24. Mr Acland Hood, sneaking at Taunton, said the county elections had shown that tlie Lords were absolutely justified in referring. the Budget to tlie people. It is certain that tlie Unionists will be the only solid party. INTEREST IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, January 24. Absorbing interest is being taken in the elections in India. Several newspapers are publishing special editions. NEW ZEALANDERS SUCCESSFUL. ; LONDON, January 24. Dr A. Chappie, who was elected for Stirlingshire, is a New Zealander, and Mr Alfredjßt. George Hamorsley, elected for Woodstock, was for a long time resilient in New Zealand._ GERMAN OPINION. BERLIN, January 24. German newspapers publish long reports of tlie polling. Some arc arguing as to the possibility of a good tariff arrangement with the Unionists. RIOTOUS RADICALS. Much Window Breaking. LONDON, January 24. J A procession of Radicals did much window breaking at Carnarvon, the cr<*wd objecting to tlie postponement of the declaration of' the poll after Cripps’ success. At Wycombe, the crowd took possession of the streets, and invaded the Unionists’ dumping shop, bonfiring tlie contents. Tlie Riot Act was read. A hundred police dis. parsed tlie crowd with a baton charge. FURTHER RETURNS.' LONDON, January 24. Romford.—Sir John H. Bothell (L.) 23,181, Williamson (U.) 21,224. As previously. -■ Crewe.—James Tomkinson (L.) • 7761, Harrington (U.) 5419, Rose (Lab.) 1380, As previously. Dumfries.—John W. Gulland (L.) 2303, Duncan (U.) 1730. As previously. Somerset Northern.—King (L.) 6568, Beauchamp (U.) 5768. As previously. Carnarvon.—Hon. D. Lloyd George (L.) 3183, Vincent (U.) 2105. As previously. Down (East). —Captain James Craig (U.) 4028, James Wood (L.) 3054. As previously. Banffshire.—Col. W. Waring (L.) 4066, Watt (U.) 2053. As previously. Norfolk, Southern.—Arthur W. Soames (L.) 4781, Kcrrison (U.) 3694. As previously. Torquay.—Sir F. Layland-Barratt, Bt. (L.) 5104, Lopes Hy. Yarde-Buller (U.) 5093. As previously. Carmarthen, Western.—John L. Morgan, K.C. (L.) 5684, Cremlyn (U.) 2059. As previously.

ELECTION NOTES. AN INDEPENDENT RADICAL. The politics of Rev. C. Silvester Horne, who has been returned as the junior member for Ipswich, are described as “impertinent Radicalism.” He is the Congregational minister at Wliitefiokl’s Church, lottenham Court Road, London, and ranks as one of the most popular Nonconformist preachers in England. Eor some years efforts have been made to get Mr Horne to re-visit Australia, and arrangements to Unit end were actually made some time ago, bat eventually the trip was postponed. He is a comparatively young man, being only in his 45th year. “Who’s Who” gives Mr Horne s recreations as golfing, cycling, and “agitating.” To the promotion of extreme Radicalism in politics he iidds the advocacy ol modern Puritanism. Mr Horne (ills the breach made, in the Liberal ranks by the death early in December ol Mr P. T. Cobbold, who had been one of the members for Ipswich from 1900, when he wrested his seat from the Unionists, and who had been selected to carry the Liberal- flag again. At that election the returns were:—D. P. Goddard (L.) 0595, F. T. Cobbold (L.) 0290, Sir C DelJ'ymplc (C.) 4591, S. J. G. Hoaro (C.) 4232 Tins victory .was the first one of that memorable contest, and for many days after the battle-cry, “Ipswich leads the way,” resounded throughout the country. SR Daniel Goddard, Mr Horne’s senior in the representation of the constituency, has held one of the scats since 1895. Ho has boon prominently associated with the Ipswich Gas Company since 1877, has been Mayor ol Ipswich, and lie founded and built the Ipswich Social Settlement at a cost of ,£II,OOO. The Liberal majority of 1906 at Ipswich was reduced on Saturday to less than a fourth—43o—on Saturday. A BAGMAN’S REPRESENTATIVE. Mr Toni E. Wing, Liberal, wno ousted Sir George Doughty, Unionist, from the Great Grimsby seat by 332 votes in a very heavy poll, was for many years parliamen-

tary secretary to the Commercial Travellers’ Association. He now lives at Grimst by, where he took a most active part in the affairs of the Town Council, and' in Liberal and Labour work. PARTY UPS AND DOWNS. ' The elasticity of British political party opinion is shown by the ups and downs of the two great , parties during the past. 25 years. In 1885 the Liberals gained a majority of 172 seats, but in the following year the Unionists swept the polls, with 116 representative votes to the good. Six years later the Liberals were again returned to power, their majority beino- 40. There was another election in 1895,° and the sce-saw continued. The Unionists came back with a majority of 152. After five years there was another appeal to the people, who still expressed .confidence in tlie Unionists, but reduced their majority to 134. The 1906 contest gave the JAberals the largest majority of recent times 354, a number reduced to. 336 before the close of 1909. In-1906 3,394,346 electors voted for the Liberal and associated parties, and 2,557,928 for the Unionists, a phi- ' rahty of 836,418. UNIONIST WORKINGMAN CANDIDATE. Mr E. A. Bagley was one of the unsuccessful Unionist working men candidates whose presence in the electoral held was made possible bv the fund collected by the London .Standard. That newspaper appealed for money to enable, working men on the Unionist side to contest certain ssats, and as a result a sum of £6OOO net wa.s obtained. When the last mail left it had been decided, in connection with, the fund, that Mr Tom Smith, bootmaker, of Burnley, should oppose Mr Shack]eton (Lab.) in the Clithroe division of Lancashire; that Mr Robert Campbell, fitter, of Plumstead, should interpose in the contest between Sir D. Brynmoor Jones (Lib.) - and, Mr. T. Griffith (Lab.) for Swansea, and that Mr Bagley should seek to wrest one of the Leicester scats from Mr Ramsay Macdonald, the secretary of the Labour Party, whoso visit to Australia some years ago is well remembered. Mr Bagley is 32 years of age, and a moulder by trade. He was chosen in 1905 to represent bis union on the Labour Representation Committee, but resigned because of his fiscal views. For some time he has been carrying on tariff reform propaganda, work in Lancashire. Mr Foster Fraser, who is associated, with Mr Bagley in.-the fight for Ueieoster, .and in the action against Mr Ramsay Macdonald, is, of course, the. well-known . author and lecturer who" was rccntly in Australia.' ■ Says the Feilding Star:—“We are genuinely pleased'to see that Dr. Chappie has won the Stcriingshiro seat for the Liberal Party. The ex-Wellington medico is a New Zealander .by-birth and upbringing, a native of Dunedin and a product qf its University. The fact that he had had colonial experience, plus his Scottish descent and Edinburgh academic education, must have appealed to the Home electors, for they gave him a thumping majority—--10,122 votes to the Unionist’s 6417. It will be remembered that he sat for a time in the New Zealand Parliament as the member for Tnapokat Ho was defeated at the elections in December last, and has been touring the Old Country' with' his family since. His will be an intelligent voice on colonial affairs in the Commons, and New Zealand will always' have an ardent advocate and watchful friend in Dr. Chappie.