ENGLISH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 5 November 1907, Page 3

ENGLISH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

EXEXPECTED UNIONIST VICTORIES 80CIAUSTS BADLY DEFEATED. J.,i Received Nov. 4, 10.18 pan. London, November 4. The Unionists won upwards of 133 (eat* in the English and Welsh municipal elections. The great majority of their victories .were in boroughs which elected Liberal Bamberg to the House of Commons. .' Liberals won 22 seats, Labor candidates 22, Independents 4, Socialists 5. Socialists seeking re-election in four twroughs were ousted, and severely deleated in 27 where they, attempted to Bispiace councillors seeking re-election.

LADIES ELECTED. NEWSPAPER. VIEW OF THE RESULTS. Received Nov. 4, 10.30 p.m. London, November 4. Mrs. Doctor Garrett Anderson and five Other ladies were elected municipal councillors. The Chronicle says the primary cause of tne Unionist victories at the Municipal elections was the fear of Socialists, and, secondarily, the Anglicans and Roman Catholics assailing the Liberals. It win not, says the Chronicle, be a bad thing for Liberalism if the Socialists continue their Ishmaelite tactics, indiscriminately attacking both practical parties, as the results at Huddersfield and j elsewhere prove. The Chronicle adds that the friendship of the Socialists is more dangerous to Liberalism than hostility.