On the whole, the municipal electors of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other large Scottish centres have voted in the manner expected of them. If they have not dealt a deadly blow to the aspirations of the Labourists, at least they have kept them from~ further encroachments. An eminently satisfactory feature of the elections generally is that the extremists, both in Edinburgh and Glasgow, have received little public support, so little, indeed, that their candidatures in most cases have been nothing short of far-, cical. The elections are not without their lesson for the ratepayers themselves. While Labour -votes its total strength on every occasion, or at least gets the credit of doing so, the majority of the other electors are usually too indifferent to go to the polling booths. Hence the miserably smal! percentages of votes recorded. As long as the margin over Labour was substantial enough to eliminate the chances of a snatch victory perhaps no great harm was done. It is within the bounds of possibility, however, that unless there is a change in their viewpoint, apathetic citizens may wake up some fine morning to find they are represented by a Labour Town Council.
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