The electors showed no mercy to the Preificists or to
any politicians who were half-hearted about a Peace with Victory. MI the Liberals who had shown more concern for the feelings of the Germans, the Bolsheviks, or the conscientious objectors than for the success of our arms in a just cause, were beaten at the polls: Mr. Trevelyan, Mr. Ponsonby,31r. Lees Smith, and their like were rejected ignominiously by the men and women electors. The Labour Caucus had foolishly decided for peace by conciliation with a treacherous foe, and most of the Labour and Socialist candidates, numbering nearly four hundred in all, were open or disguised Pacificiste. They had their reward Almost every Labour candidate whose patriotism seemed doubtful was beaten Mr. Henderson himself, who tried to be a patriot and a Pacificist at the same time, was' placed at the bottom of the poll in
three-cornered fight in East Hans. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, his evil genius, who from the first days of the war to the present time has done his utmost to stir up domestic strife end blacken his country's reputation, was beaten at Leicester by a majority of 14,223. Mr. Snowdon, another mischief-maker whose speeches have been the constant delight of the German propagandist, was defeated at Blackburn by a majority of 14,884.
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