Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-13
CANADA BEGINS
 FIGHT FOR PACT
Opponents Of Reciprocity Are Dodglng Issue; Emphasiz- ing lingo Arguments
 to Defeat t
LAURlER REGIME ATTACKED

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 OTTAWA. Ont, Aug. 12-Read. lustment of political plans and prep aration for the Canadian Parliament ary election campaign involving. pri. marily, reciprocity with the United States, have characterized the past week since the Laurier government dissolved parliament. Tons of printed matter have been put into the mails the franking privilege having been extended for one week, but little election machinery is in running or der This is because the contest has been preeipitated a year before it's normal tine, which would have been after feur sessions of the eleventh parliament. instead of after thrso "a general election being required every i've years. Either party has enough convention named candidates h the field to begin extensive cam palgning at once. Nominating con- ventions are scheduled and the nam. ing of candidates will be completed m a month. Both party leaders will be well started on their speech making tours by that time.
 Would Dodge Issue.
 lt is the evident purpose of the op- ponents of reciprocity to divert at. tention from that issue as much as possible. But the government and it's supporters will keep reciprocity in the foreground Prominent members of the government express increased confidence that the new parliament 10 be opened in October by the new eovernor-general, the Duke of Con naughty will be so constituted by the reelection results as to be able to make it's initial act the raufca, ton of the reciprocity agreement The opposition forces. on the contra ", hope for sufficient conservative and French Nationalist. to keep reef ! procity where it stands-ratified at Washington bat not at Ottawa
 Actually to kill reciprocity the op- position will have to come back with twenty-five more members than they have now or a majority of five in the house. But as one of these would have to be elected speaker, the working majority would be but four. This small margin. however. would suffice. Parliament has a membership of 221. Today 133 are government supporters. and SS are opponents oi the government, the administration ! majority being 45.
 Governments Real Strength.
 The governments principal real strength lies east of Ontario, it's supporters from that portion of Can aVsl numbering 15, wniIe Ine 0ppO- sition has but 21 In the part of the DomiEjon comprised by the parties are now more evenly divided, there being e opposition and 64 govern 4 ment members
 Never before has the president of the United States been so eonspicu- ous figure in a Canadian election 2 President Taft is almost as great < a personality as Sir Witfred Laurierf in the present campaign, and it safe to say that his utterances ou reciprocity will be more often quoted . throughout the provinces these com ing weeks than those of Sir Wilfred ! or Finance Minister Fielding. AL ready extensive use Of them has been made by both sides iE Parlia- ment. The opposition will cover sev. ] eral acres Of billbOards with them The views Of Champ Clark and oth. CT American champions of reciproc- l ity also will figure largely in the speechmaking, as will the opinion of British statesmen relative to the effect reciprocity would have on British tariff reform and imperial preference.
 Annexation Bogey Weak.
 Despite impish cartoons and face tious speeches to the contrary, the annexation bogev is hardly alive. The opposition will probably renew its efforts to convince the people that reciprocity really means a parting of the ways" with that phrase vaif- . ously interpreted. But if Canadians believed that reciprocity would lead to severance of the British tie. or to absorption by the United States, the agreement. it is conceded would hardly get a fayoring vote.
 The tendency of the opposition, after forcing an election on rect procity, to depart from discussion of that issue and get the people to of other things which it holds are discreditable to the gov ernment is especially noticeable in the fact that the prairie provinces
  lament during the next four years, because the government brought or the election before completion of the census now being taken. The distribution would have given the west twenty additional members. Failure to take over the terminal grain elevator for govern ment management and to declare that the Hudson Bay railway. when will not be let to a private railway corporation for oper- stion are other factors in the vests 
 Navy As a Side Issue.
 In Quebec, which is largely French. opponents Of the. government are again attacking Dirreriy the thero unpopular naval policy of the Lairier .egiue to draw attention from re Obst-uction and the long iebate in parliament, however, have ,o focused attention upon reciprocity hat 1t is doubtful if it can long