BRITISH ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 154, 25 March 1919, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

DEFEAT OF THE PACIFIST GBOUP.

.Referring to the British general elections the "Tablet" (London) enye:-Wo enall best understand tho motives which made so many men and women crowd to the polls to support the Coalition if we note the fate which overtook each and every member of tho Pacifist group on the late I'ahament. Not one escaped, homo, oi them sought safety under tho dispuso of new labels, but it availed them nothing all, for the electors in every constituency tracked them down ami pursued them till not one was left. ltua feeling that candidates, whatever their label and whatever tlisir promises for the future, should he judged bv their past in regard to the war, was so truly the keynote of the elections, that it is worth while to set out the immes of the whole group, with the adverse majorities which were piled up against them —it may servo as an awful warning— n i no ?r dcn -m% J - H - Whitel>. M. Mason... 14,235 house 6,«4 J. Kamsay Mac- T. Riohardsou . 6,201 T, do S al i d r V; #P }V\ O.Anderson. 5,76? S , m' t 1 ?" -UAU B.li.Outhwaito 5329 K T. John ... 11,815 A. Ponnonby ... 3,395 Sir J. E Barlow 9,114 H. B. Lees JI. G Chancellor 8/IC3 Smith 2 2'7 0. P.Trovolyan7.629 F. IV. Jowett""! '753 But thoiißh the retribution was ruthess it was also discriminating. Tliourli some pt tho most notorious of tho group helonßtd to the Labour Party, Unit was in noway allowed to .prejudice the chances of men belonsiuE to tho same party whoso war record was mod. Shcli wellknown Labour leaders as Mr. Barnes. Mr. Uoborls and Colonel Will Thome were returned Ly enormous majorities, ihc electors cared nothing for label or coupon-they had Ilieir own tfsl. Mr. Henderson, the len'der of the' Labour Party, could not ruihtly be described ns as a Pacifist, kit he had wobbled badly, and so he was opposed and beaten, arid with ridiculous case, by a man of his own party whoso war record was above suspicion. Other Labour men who went down before candidates belongine to the little croup describing itself as the Nαt'iom'l Democratic l'artr were Jl>. Untnsny Macdoiiald, Mr. Jowett and Mr. Onthvaite.