UNIONIST SUCCESS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 November 1907, Page 5

UNIONIST SUCCESS.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

POSITION OF LIBERALISM.

SOCIALIST REVERSES. BI TELEGBAPir.—MESS ASSOCIATION'— CqrYMGHT. (Km. Nov. 4, 10.18 p.m.) London, Novomber A. The Unionists won upwards oi 131 seats in the English and Welsh municipal elections. Tho great majority of tlmir victories wcro won m boroughs which elected Liberal members to tLo House of Commons. 'J he results so far go to show that the various parties have won seats as follow :— Unionists I^ l Liberals 22 labour 22 Socialist ... ... 5 Independent * Socialists secjking re-election in four boroughs woro ousted, arid they wcro severely defeated in twenty-saveu boroughs whero they attempted to displace Councillors seeking roelection. (Rce. Nov. -1, 10.30 p.m.) Londcn, November 4Mrs. Dr. Garrett, Andursan, and five other ladies have been elected municipal Councillors. \\\e " Daily Chronicle" . says the primary , caiiso of the Unionist victories at the muni' cipal olections was the fear of the Socialists, and the secondary caur-o was that the Angli* cans and tho Roman Catholics assailed the Liberals. It will not'bo a. bail thing foj' Liberalism,, the "Chronicle" remarks, if tlw Socialists continuo their Ishmaelito tactics, indiscriminately attacking both tho practical parties, as tho results at Huddersfield and elsewhere prove. The "Chronicle"'adds that the friendship of tho Socialists is more dangerous to. Liberalism than their hostility.

The municipal victories of Unionists! in Literal constituencies will no doubt be hailed ns ii sign of thu tunes by the present Opposition, n.i was tho defeat of luo Progressives ut. the London County Council,elections. Tho lirsseut reverse of the Socialists, who' had an army of canctidntce, will no doubt occasion joy to all Conservatives, imi! to many of the Liberals. Tho Hmldersneld election and byelection ,'iro cited by thu "Daily Chronicle" evidently as instances where a triangular contest— Liberal, Conservative, and Socialist—was to tho profit of Liberalism, in this case. Sir J. ,, .' , . Woodhousa (Liberal, G302) beat Mr. T. R, Williams (Labour, 5813), aud J'. Foster Eraser (Unionist, 4391); ;iM on Sir .'!. T. VVoodhouse being appointed a Railway Commissioner, the bv-cloctiou in November, iOOli, again resulted i A. She.nveli (Liberal). 57G2; T. R. Wiiliams, ■5142; J. V. I'ruser, -till. Hut at two recent by-ejoctioiifi, .farrow and Colno v Valiey, Labour or Socialist candidate:! beat the. selected of bo>.h the. other parties getting iu each time on ii. minority vote. .