MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8872, 5 November 1907, Page 5

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

GREAT UNIONIST VICTORY. Received November 4, 10.18 p.m. LONDON, November 4. The Unionists won upwards of 135 seats at English and Welsh Municipal elections. The great majority of their victories were in boroughs which elected Liberal numbers to the House of Commons. The Liberals won 22 seats. Labour candidates 22, Independents 4, and the Socialists 5. Socialists seeking re-election in four boroughs were ousted. Socialists were also severely defeated in 27 boroughs where they attempted to displace councillors seeking re-, lection. SIX LADIES ELECTED. COMMENTS BY THE "CHRONICLE."

SOCIALISTS' ISHMAELITIC TACTICS. Received Norember 4, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, November 4. Mrs Dr. Garrett Anderson and five other ladies were elected Municipal Councillors. The "Chronicle" says that the primary cause of the Unionist victories at the Municipal elections was the fear of Socialists, and, secondly, because the Anglicans and Roman Catholics were .assailing the Liberals. It would not be a bad thing for Liberalism, says the "Chronicle," if the Socialists continue their lshmaelitic tactics of indiscriminately attacking both practical pa-ties, as the results at Huddersfield and elsewhere prove. The "Chronicle" adds: "The friendship of Socialists is more dangerous to Liberalism than their hostility."