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Show ajflSTS CAIN, f ! IMMLS RULE m Government Considers St Fared Better Than H 'as to Be Expected. Gal Prominent men ieiflRED TO PRIVATE LIFE rms and Nationalists Get SFew Members for the h1$Next Parliament. m rDN. Jan- ! At the conclusion i polling in the general election fcft&lM stood as follows: vrdsjj.jtg 3-'; Liberals, 77; Laborltes. onallsts. 13. Net gain for the eSftvernmcnfc fare! much better to-HUtt to-HUtt their most arflcnt supporters ?rf The Unionists gained nineteen Liberals four and the Labor-ii" Labor-ii" making a net gain for the ' M b for the day of fourteen, one less VcSfy sained at fewer elections on practically assured the return of HKrftl power with a fair majority, jffengtho places still to poll are Scotland and Wales, which al-wjro al-wjro solidlv Liberal. There were Mny surprises today. Some e.-Mhat e.-Mhat John Burns, president of the Eard. would be defeated In Bnt-Elvlslon Bnt-Elvlslon of Battersca and Clap-Tit Clap-Tit Burns himself never had any '13 to the result. JgK Some Closo Fights. wf state officials who had to fight lrr seats and were successful ere itnlno Blrrell. chief secretary for Ire-ibjjnd Ire-ibjjnd C. F. Hobhouse. financial sei.-fTto sei.-fTto tho treasury In Bristol, and Dr. sMacNamaro. secretary to the ad-uln ad-uln Camberwell. Their majorities MJreatly reduced. Tntt. tills happened all through tho fit the huge majorities secured in ,nowIng big reductions in almost fee. Indeed, (many Liberals who uJ&membcrs of the house of com-iSJy, com-iSJy, the grace of the landslide- that Tlfeve been sonl back to private -jlrnong them Is Hamar Greenwood, 'idlan, who represented York and ?ftiEldered a prominent candidate for vwflce. Another Canadian. Joseph j-Sjforrner premier of British Colum-,a.tJjis Colum-,a.tJjis more successful, winning the jlr, St. Pancreas. East, upromlnenl members defeated in-SjlU in-SjlU G, Chlozza Money, apostle of Tide, who lost his seat for North VJiton, and Will Crooks. Labor lead-'sXWoolwlclJ. lead-'sXWoolwlclJ. Sir H Robson. Llb-Bfodidate Llb-Bfodidate for North Kensington, jffb get a majority, as did also Sir r3brst, an ex-minister and at one Smembcr of the fourth party, Reading spirits were A. J. Bal-'Md Bal-'Md Lord Randolph Churchill. 'Wle other side. "Lord R. Cecil and ll-feStewart Boles, who ran as free Unionists, failed to overthrow !)GjSnowden, Labor leader, and Sir "KBarclay Blackburn. Doctors in the Game, uiirs had much to do with the de-ltClaud de-ltClaud Hay Unionist, In the Hor-imfcjslon Hor-imfcjslon of Shore Ditch. His op-hcjas op-hcjas C, A. Addison, a famous con-Ceapurgeon. con-Ceapurgeon. Hay, on the platform. ifFllsparaging remarks about the tteon, and as a result tho whole 6yy turned out to assist Dr. Addl-ratut Addl-ratut eJIborals also won back tho adjoln-iqWelltuency adjoln-iqWelltuency of Haggerston, rcprc-"w&y rcprc-"w&y the Hon. R. Guinness. Union-leswbelng Union-leswbelng defeated today by S. G. icriflor. cqiwst leaders who ran today. Includ-weM Includ-weM Balfour. A. Bonar Law, Wal-. Wal-. tftme Long and Sir William Bull lUotllam being the man who caused imtfelon by engaging In a fist fight rlDj&'with A, Heckter at Hammer-wnold Hammer-wnold their scats by Increased mated! ma-ted! gSome Narrow Margir-.s. polling was remarkably close, how- n many constituencies. 11. E iuoted barrister, for example, won :rom the Liberals by the narrow THIi of i twenty-six, while in the r& division of Camberwell. Henry io KGooch. who secured a majority -atU?, than 2fl00 ln tnc recent by-elec-" i'alns his scat by a bare hundred, spheral retained his scat by a ma- 2!(ony ten general view of today's battle bears out the forecast. The north is solid for the government: the midlands section and especially the vicinity 'of Birmingham Bir-mingham favors tariff reform. Tho victory of the Unionists at Walsall points to an extension of the Influence of Joseph Chamberlain. The metropolis, which was expected to mako a cleaji turnover. Is displaying a romarkably slight variation ln representation, repre-sentation, although the Liberals are not returning the majorities of 100G. With tho exception of three constituencies, consti-tuencies, results of all today's polling were announced tonight. Great crowds gathered ln all the main streets of London, Lon-don, particularly Fleet street and the Strand, where results were shown In front of newspaper offices. One of the newspapers, a Liberal organ, adopted the novel device of throwing a searchlight on Gladstone's statue In tho Rand when the returns showed that tho Liberals wore assured of victory. Victory for Burns. John Burns of Battersca comes back to parliament with flying colors. Although Al-though in the great landslide of 100G he won by 1600 votes, his normal majority Is about 200, and in today's hard-fought battle he beat A. Shirley Benn, Unionist, Union-ist, by Goo. Defeat has been predicted for "Honest" John perennially In tho last decade and Mr. Burns's friends wero frightened this year. Since the most plcturesquo flguro in Westminster was sent to tho house of commons by the enthusiastic support of worklngmen and socialists of his home district, and since he held positions of increased responsibility, he has outgrown out-grown gradually 'his old radical Ideas. The John Burns of today Is a vastly different dif-ferent politician from the old John Burns who exhorted the worklngmen In Trafalgar square to rise against the police. po-lice. He has become one of the mosL conservative of Liberals and is said to be at heart a good Tory. John Burns has so far outlived his famous dictum that no man could honestly hon-estly cam more- than $2600 yearly that ho holds a $10,000 position and is likely to be promoted to a $25,000 position, although al-though his stylo of living remains as modest as ever. Independent on Stand. Tho "Czar of Battersca," as some worklngmen call him. has not hesitated to stand against some of tho demands of his old-time friends when he considered consid-ered them unreasonable. Ho has opposed op-posed tho unemployed" and has spoken plainly about worklngmen's tendency toward to-ward improvidence and drink. While he has gained the respect of all parties ln parliament and Is considered one of tho ablest, legislators, "traitor" and "renegade" "rene-gade" are some of the mildest terms applied ap-plied to him In tho labor camp. A. Sherlcy Bonn made a strong tariff reform campaign and received much outside out-side help, but "Honest John" in his familiar fa-miliar jacket and boots for ho still scorns the ministerial silk hat and frock coat has been seen everywhere, renewing renew-ing acquaintance with old followers. Hundreds Hun-dreds of automobiles, bedecked with the Unionist colors, purple and yellow, filled the Battersca streets today, taking voters to the polls, Long lines of them were drawn up outside the factories waiting for worklngmen. Poster Campaign. Bonn's placards In windows outnumbered outnum-bered the Burns's 10 to 1. Tho Socialist Social-ist posters reminded the worklngmen that John Burns had said that each of them spent six shillings a week on drink. One of them accused him of tuklng soup which some outcast should have had when he visited the bread line on the embankment. Another exhorted the voters to "Turn the canting hypocrite out." Still another represented him ln court suit, labeled "Tho Gilded Popinjay." Popin-jay." Bands of children paraded with Burns omblcms on their banners, which said that, under protection, the father would have to rob the cat of Its meat for his dinner. Like American Contest. Woolwich was another scene of excite-A excite-A th,s Jlace thc Labor leader, Will Crooks, had a dramatio reception on his return from Australia on the eve of the election. Crooks went about the streets followed by a great crowd. He was cheered everywhere and frequently stopped and made an Impromptu speech from the steps of some house. One of his addresses was delivered Jn front of the headquarters of his antagonist, Major W. A. Adams, Unionist, who looked on from a window. Numbers of Woolwich voters cmplovcd at the works of Vlckcrs Sons &. Max"lm. at Erlth. a few miles out, were brought to the town in automobiles to vote. Crooks was beaten by 300 votes, whereas, where-as, In previous elections, he defeated Major Adams by 2111. Tho result was no surprise, for the government had turned out many laborers by reducing the work at Woolwich arsenal and they wero sworn to get revenge. Ten thousand Durham miners marched into Gateshead to oppose J. Johnson, tho Labor candidate, for re-election. Johnson John-son has been against them on the eight-hour eight-hour act. On the way they attacked Marsley HIII colliery, wrecked tho offlcea and threw the books and other effectn down the shaft. Special police wero drafted to prevent another riot at night. Sir H. Klrnber. the Unionist candidate for Wandsworth, the result of which will bo announced tomorrow, had a disagreeable disagree-able experience, being pelted with mud and vegetables as he drove through tho district. A more serious affray occurred In Northwest Month, Ireland, where a hostllo crowd attacked the sneakers, severely se-verely Injuring J. P. Phllipps, Nationalist National-ist candidate for South Longford. Press Comment. London morning papers on the Unionist Union-ist side concern themselves' more with the personal victories at the polls than the general results, which arc ndmltted to be scarcely up to expectations. Tho Dally Graphic sees looming the danger of socialism in the heavy pollings of the working class constituencies, which It says, ought to serve as a lurid warning to the middle classes. Liberal papers, on the other hand, arc Jubilant and predict that tho government majority, while it will be smaller than ln 190G, will bo larger than Gladstone's Jn 1SS5. The naval question had a -rcat effect In the dock yard ports. Portsmouth nave the Unionists two gains, Admiral Lord Charles Bcrcsford and B. G. Falle being elected by huge votes. |