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Dribbling returns early showed the expected trend. In numerous constituencies where the Labor candidate won two years ago because a Conservative and a Liberal candidate split each other's votes, the Labor man faced this week only a single National Government candidate and lost to him. First big Laborite to lose his seat thus was famed Ben Tillett, onetime chairman of the potent Trade Union Council...
Last week the four rivals Dunster, Eliot, Lowell, and Winthrop split up, on account of the darkness which made a quadrangular race risky, and Dunster and Winthrop barely managed to nose out their opponents...
Today Mr. MacDonald, having split the Labor Party, has the solid support of all Conservatives, numerous Liberals (for he has also split that party), and finally will swing many Labor votes to a new party which he organized last week, the National Labor Party. By extremely simple arithmetic British vote dopesters could figure Scot MacDonald triumphantly returning to Parliament supported by Conservatives, split-Liberals and National Laborites who had polled together a total of from 10.000.000 to 12,000.000 ballots. But voters have a habit of fooling dopesters. Example: the last German election was called in hopes of obtaining...
...Most Wanton Election!" David Lloyd George, nominal Leader of the Liberal Party from which so many Liberals have split off, stormed from his sickbed last week: "This election is the most wanton and unpatriotic into which this country has ever been plunged!" (i. e. Scot MacDonald has broken and ruined the Welshman's party...
...Mayor of Washington" for two years. For the past ten years he has served on the '"exclusive" Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, so called because a member may serve on no other committee. He dropped his support of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 when the G. 0. P. split, but has voted Progressively for the Norris Muscle Shoals bill. No Congressman spends more time on the nation's business than Representative Mapes. He has a little law office in Grand Rapids' Widdicomb Building, seldom gets home...