Now, however, the Government, and in particular the Fiscal Reformers, have had another blow in East Lanark. "This constituoncy has always been Liberal and it went Liberal in 1900, but a year later at a by-election the Conservative—Sir W. Rattigan, who was recently killed in 'a motor car accident—got in owing toa three-cornered fight. There wasa Labour as well asa Liberal candidate. This time the same thing occurred again but though the Labour man polled nearly four thousand votes, the Free Traders lis present time" would: giv majority larger than the Unionists el tained either in 1895 or at the "khaki election of 1900.
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