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Show First Woman to Take Seat in House of Commons. LONDON, Nor! 28. News cf the result re-sult of the election at Plymouth caused a mild sensation In the house of commons today. Members of ail ihe parties expressed ungrudging praise of Lady Astor'.s fighting qualities and of the manner in which she had conducted Iter cam paign. The ceremony attending the counting count-ing of the ballots began in the historic Plymouth Guild hall at 9 :80 o'clock. Lady Astor's philanthropic endeavors endeav-ors here during the last ten years brought hei considerable suppoi t as well as hpr espousal of ami liquor leg-islalion leg-islalion which won hof a large vote among the women, she drove about the constituency on a speech-making tour this afternoon and evening. The Campaign attracted wide n t f fD-;ion, fD-;ion, due m large measure to Lady Astor's nationality, her unconventional if lecuoneerinc method:' and her barbed and witty replies to questioners. Mrs. Lloyd George and other prominent po utirai personages Bpoke in her behalf Lady Astor became a candidate after ' 'he death of Viscount Astor. Sr. left her husband hell to the title and necessitated ne-cessitated his leaving the lower hoi.se I Of parliament. Mrs Astor, who was formerly Miss Nanna Langherne of Virginia, is the mother of six children, a fact of which she boa:. ted at one time during the campaign Lad Astor will be the first woman to take a seat in the house of com imons. Countess Markiovicz was elected elect-ed a member from St Patrick's division divi-sion of Dublin in the general election i Inst -nr hut iitl, Iko Olw.. I ! ' cmi.ii Fein members elected in Ireland, ha never taken her seat. The vote showing Lady Astor to have a majority over all 07 Uu,l and a plurality of 5203 compares with the 1 majority of S269 and the plurality of I 11,577 obtained by her husband, then 1 Major WaldorfAstor at the Kst general gen-eral election. I Gay, then also the labor candidate received 5334 votes in that lection tu 17,09! 1 hi Major Astor, while Capttin S. Ransom, tiu liberal candidate, re- elved 3488 votes. Forty-eight per eent of the absent vote was estimated by a Libera count er to, have been cast for Lady Astor. jThe vote of this class was largely that j of soldiers and sailors Gay Concedes Defeat. Gay, the Labor candidate, conceded 1 his defeat bofore announcement of ihe result, roote, the Liberal candidate, conceded tun weeks aeo that he was ;out ot the running I The announcement of Lad) Astor's 1 election was greeted with cheers bj thousands of people in front of the Guild hall 1 Lady Astor. garbed in the hlack 1 : mourning which she wnre throughout the campaign, went to the Guild hall while the counting was in proeress.l accompanied by Viscount Astor and Cynthia Curson, a daughter of Earl Curzon She said she was deeply -: ati ful to the electors. Mr Foote remarked that Lady As-, tor"s election was due to her remarkable remark-able and deserved popularity Lady Astor will take her seat Monday Mon-day next Scores of prominent mem-, hers of parliament, anticipating the re-: suit, had requested that she allow them to be her sponsors. Lady Astor'6 Statement. "Although I cannot say 'the best: man won.' I can say that thr- best pol : ; icy won. I . "Theip are certain people who seem 'to forget what the fight for the last j five years haa been about, n was for, 'right, nol might, and for fair plaj in tile widest sense. ' There i n new spirit, both in pub-i pub-i lie and in private life, which Is struggling strug-gling to get through. By this I mean, 'the spirit of citizenship and service j 'Which was brought about by the 'war. .... ' I believe that the great bulk of the people is willing and want to do what Is right, but I also believe 'hat the) spirit of the war profiteer and Bolshe-1 ' vism, if they have their way, would make the country not the home of he j rot bul a den rf ilii.-. s The profl J ti er took advantage of the patriot during dur-ing the war and the Bolshevist revolution revolu-tion is tninc to take advantage of the! broken and untettled patriot now thai the war is over. Neither Is right and neither represents the great heart de sire of the British nation. Both mut 1 be fought and defeated." |
