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Show INTENSE INTEREST IN THE FINAL RESULT LONDON. Jan. 11. Tho Increasing conlldericc manifested at Unionist head-quartms head-quartms and tho enormous enthusiasm .aroused throughout tho country betoken a tremendous vote at thc coming elections. elec-tions. It Is upon iho "ordinarily indifferent" vole that both sides are depending to uphold their cause, and both sides appear ap-pear sanguine. Premier Aso,uith at Ipswltch tonight dealt at length with tho ourstlon of tariff reform. Ho asserted assert-ed that the advance of Germany and the United States was, -attributable to other causes than tariffs: that thc United States had an international free trade and that Germany had become a formld-blo formld-blo rival by reason of her education and organization. Among minor incidents of tho campaign. cam-paign. David Lloyd-Gcorgo, chancellor of the exehequer. hap drawn a handsome apology from Lord Rothschild for wrongfully wrong-fully attributing to thc eham-e.llor the det'laratlou that there was likelihood of Groat Britain having to expatriate thc Jl'WS. Thc late President McKlnley was ouol-:d ouol-:d tonight by a political lecturer as having hav-ing declared that If he were an Kngllsh-mau Kngllsh-mau he would be a fren trader. Karl of Crewe, secretary of stale for tho colonies. In a letter lo the press, holds out hope that a grant will he made from the Imperial funds to subsidize a j British cotton-growing association for a term of voars. . |