While the middle class Pacifieists masquerading under the nerve of
" Labour " were repudiated by the outraged electors whom they had so long misrepresented, the real working-men candidates, patriotic to the core, found hearty support. Mr. Barnes, standing as an unofficial Labour candidate in one of the poorest working-class quarters of Glasgow, defeated by no fewer then 6,811 votes the recognized Labour candidate, Mr. Maclean, who called himself the Bolshevik " Consul," and was imprisoned for seditious utterances. It may be safely assumed, too, that must of the 7,436 electors who supported Mr. Maclean were Irish Roman Catholics and not Scotsmen. Mr. George Roberts at Norwich headed the poll with 26,642 votes, while his official Latour opponent was at the bottem with only 6,856. Mr. Hodge in Gorton polled nearly ten times as many votes as the mal- content Socialist who tried to oust the Labour Minister. Mr. Ste plum Walsh in the Ince division beat his Socialist opponent by 12,651. These results, typical of many, are reassuring but not sin prising. We were always confident that the nation would show at the first opportunity its distaste for the anti-democratic Polehevi,rn which a small knot of agitators has tried to spread under cover of the Labour Party organization.
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