The by-election in the Horncaatle Division of Lincolnshire resulted in
another success for the Coalition and another severe defeat for Labour. Captain Hotchkin, a Coalition Unionist, headed the poll with 8,140 votes. Alderman Pattinson, an Independent Liberal, came second with 6,727 votes. Mr. Holmes, the Labour candidate, was last with only 3,443 votes. In a typical agricultural constituency the Labour Party thus secured less than a fifth of the votes polled, although Mr. Holmes's speakers are understood to have promised the farm labourer the millennium—and something more. Tho truth is, wo imagine, that the extreme Syndicalist& who have intrigued their way into the councils of the party do their • cause more harm than good when they preach their mischievous doctrines to the stolid British electorate. Their violence is its own cure, and the natural reaction benefits the older parties which stand for law and order and for true democracy.
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