Polling took place yesterday week in the West Hull division,
where a vacancy had been created by the succession of the late Member to the Peerage as Lord Nunburnholme, with the following result:—
Mr. Guy G. Wilson (Liberal) ...
... 5,823
Sir George Bartley (Unionist) .. ... 5,382 Mr. James Holmes (Labour) ... ... 4,512 Liberal majority over Unionist ... 241
The Liberal majority in 1892, 1895, 1900, and 1906 was 2,783, 5,237, 1,945, and 2,247 respectively, but on all the previous occasions except 1895, when the seat was contested by an independent Labour candidate, there was a straighb fight between the two chief political parties. The moral of the election, as we read it, is sufficiently obvious. Disunited from the Unionist Free-traders, the Tariff Reformers are shown to be incapable of taking advantage of the distractions of the Liberals. If they cannot win even when the Liberal vote is split in two, what chance is left for the party except on the basis of the reunion of the Unionists ?
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