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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 485, 19 April 1909, Page 5

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SCOTTISH. SEAT. RETAINED BY A LIBERAL. 1 WITH GREATLY REDUCED MAJORITY. lut .*r*r.iGE*rli'-i , hi»s ussocmticlk—co'pvit joiiiM (Rec. April 18, AAo p.m. , ) London, April 17. The by-election for East .Edinburgh, loausod by the appointment of Sir Geo. .M'Crao (Liberal) as Vice-Prosident and Chairman, of tlio Local Government Boaul foi Scotland, resulted in tho leturn uf the 'Liberal and frcetratle candidate b} a majority lof 45S votes over the Unionist and tanft I reform candidate. (Tho'Liberal majority in 1906 was 4174 ) Tho voting was asunder.— Mr. Clbson (freetrader) . . 4527 Mr. Herd 1 (tariff reformer) ... 40G9 . Liberal majority 458 TARIFF REFORMERS PROGRESS IN SCOTLAND. Tho 1908 election was, like the present one, a ■dual contest. The fall ,of the Liberal n.ajonty .from 1171 votes to 453 is, therefore, a icmar,';lable slump. It is apropos'to recall that in lanother great Scottish city, Glasgow, a Liberal ■ seat (Central Glasgow) ivas lost 111 Mt'cn last to n Unionist .md tariff reformer, thn Liber il '1006 majority 431 being converted into t Unionist iriajont} of 2113. At Haiuck Burghs last March the Liberal majoiity of 681 was reduce.l to 520. In recording the Unionists' capture of the (Central Glasgow seat, filio "Daily Mail" said:, '"The most remaikabln Unionist success in tho [whole series of by-electidiis has been pi ined «y Mr. Scott Dickson, ,the Unionist candidate, m Central Glasgow, who Has returned last nigh: by tho enormous majority of 2113, thus captur|ing the seat .for Fiscal Reform. This is tho fir-,t Isuecess winch the Unionists have obtained in a IScottish constituency since the general election, and gives them the largest majority e\er recorded in tho history of tho seat since the last Reform Act. Both candidates made Filial Re-1 form (the 0110 issue in tho election. "Central Glasgow rs the tenth seat gtined by Itho Unionists since the general olectioa. Tho others are Cockermouth, N.W. Brigg, Pudsey, Mid-Devon, Haggprston, and South Hereford, Newcastle. Peckhain, In every caso the ■victorious candidate has been ja Fiscal Roformer."