The results of the Borough Elections which were held on
Thursday, November 1st, may or may not be an index to the General Election, but they are at least a lesson to Unionists to take heed and throw off lethargy. It has often been said that, Parliamentary elections reverse the tendencies of Municipal elections. This may become less nu?. in future, as the municipalities unfortunately, but inevitably, are being permanently organized on political lines. The Socialists have made the municipalities their nursery and training ground, and men of other political complexion are bound to follow suit or to suffer. Where the anti-Socialists had prepared the municipal ground care- fully they did not fare badly last week. The general indifference of the electors, however, was proved by the smallness of the poll. In London, . for instance, only 35 per cent, of the electorate voted, as compared with 42 per cent, three years ago.
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