The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-29


a minister of the interior; Premier Lau
rier Rudolph Lemieux, minister ma
rine and fisheries; and Dr. H. S. Be
g land, postmaster general in the prov
9e lnce of Quebec; A. G. Aylesworth
re minister of justice did not seek re
a. election, as he had decided to retire
" from public life, and Sir Richard Car
n tuth, minister of trade and commerce
a. who is a member of the senate was
+. not required to go before the electors.
v Although reelected in two constitu-
encies in Quebec, the defeat of the
p Liberal party also means the retire
ment from public wife of Sir Wilfrid
J. Laurier, who for nearly two decades.
: has directed the destinies of the Do
mlnlon Several times during the
o bitter campaign which preceded the
election, the minister said that defeat
OF his party at the polls meant the
end of his career.
! A liberal membership of fftv-tbree
from Quebec was cut down to thirty.
six, which, taken alone. seriously
threaened the supremacy of the marty
but 1t was in Ontario that the con.
servatives won their best victories
Spurred on by appeals to patriotism
ana the theory that reciprocity was
the entering wedge for annexation tba
conservatives swept nearly evervthine
before them. That province. which
IN the last parliament was represented
Dy thlrty-five liberals and fifty-one con
serYatives, will send a delegation to
the next congress of thirteen liberals
and seventy-fiye conservatives. A no
table feature of the defeat was the
opposition's carrying of two liberal
seats in Saskatchewan.
The returns at 10 o'clock last night
with few distant districts unheard
from were:
jacques Beureu, solicitor-general re-
naming as a semi-member of the ad-
mlnlstration, also was defeated All
though the majority of seats won bv +
the conservatives is over half a hun II
dred, the popular majority against tbe y
government and reciprocity is even
more lower. t
The election results indicate that
the Canadian electors were moved NV U
sentiment more than by material con "
g
Liberal speakers and the govern u
ment party press, in appealing for y
Ihe support of the government and
reciprocity, did so chiefly on economic Il
grounds, maintaining that it would hi
prove the prosperity of Canada and in
would never lead to annexation with to
ne United States or to any change tn
n the political status of the Dominion lea
The conservatives, on the other hand dc
Vhile arguing against the economic lie
advantages of reciprocity, dealt with tn
nore emphasis upon sentimental CON in
liberation, insisting that the eventual 10
esult of reciprocity would lead Canada 19
rom Great Britain and to the United in
tates. lilo
The people responded to that an 19
cal. Ontario, the largest province bill
[ all, in the most whole-heartedlv lal
'ay, and other provinces, with the ex- alb
option of Quebec, Albera and Sas- lar
atchewan, hardly less so Even the ha
ralrle west, which was supposed to cal
eslre reciprocity above all other
lings, and where American settlers full
ave gone in large numbers. did not nui
for the government. tbe
1t mas been an axiom that the gov me
nment party could stand without of
aJorlty in the Province of Quebec. in
It the results of yesterdays voting in
we destroyed this theory, for the sev
Vernment, though defeated, retained VIII
majority in Quebec. Many who be- litt
we'd the conservatives would win ex- hay
cted the majority to be compara- sin,
ely small, and the result would be exp
at the French nationalist group of vidi
opposition would hold the balance bile
power and that Henri Bourassa. thel
sir leader, would seek election, with ton
short time and make his appear q
&c In parliament to direct them. if for
had been the case they would have Tni
'upied the position which the Irish +bo,
'ty have some times held in the Cove
tish parliament, and would have won
de the position of the prime min Kin,
:, ." eA0eeuinely ulihcult one. (chi
he splendid majorities obtained by Az
den in the English provinces will Britt
ke him practically independent of to 7
French group, for he has work Bern
majority without them. The effect and
MS VIII be greatly to minimize the not
lonallst party which Mr. Bourassa tigue
been leading for eight years past. the
he retirement of Laurier now naor sa,,o,