The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-22
RECIPROCITY
 DEFEATED
PREMIER LAuRlER AND REcl- PRocITY DEFEATED BY A
 LARGE MAJORITY
Liberals Win in Nearly Every Prov ince--Winnine Party Pledged to Expansion of Trade in
 the Empire.

government and reciprocity suffered Ian overwhelming defeat in the Cana dian elections today. By a veritable political landslide. the liberal majority of 43 was swept away and the conservative party se- cured one of the heaviest majorities upwards of 50-that any Canadian party had ever had. Seven cabinet ministers who have served with Premier Laurier were among the de feated candidates.
 The liberals lost ground in prac- tically every province of the do- minion. Where they wen their ma- jorfties were small. Where the con- Iservatives won their maiorities were tremendous. Ontario, the leading province of Canada declared almost unanimously against the administra- ltion and reciprocity.
 Robert l.. Borden, leader of the conservative party will shortly be- come prime minister of Canada. He will be supported in parliament by a working majority of far more than ample for his purpose.
 The government defeat means that the Fielding Knox reciprocity agree ment ratified by the American con- gress in extra session will not be introduced when the twelfth parlia- ment assemblies next month, and that a revised basis of trade with the United States looking to clos CT commercial relation will not be possible in the immediate future.
 The conservatives are committed to a policy of trade expansion with lin the empire and closed door against the United States. l Although reelected in two con- stitueneies in Quebec the defeat of the liberals means the retirement from public life of Sir Wilfrid Lau- rier. who for nearly two decades has directed the destinies of the domin- ion. Several times during the bitter campaign which preceded todays election the venerable premier said that defeat of his party at the polls meant the end of his career.
 A liberal membership of B from Quebec was cut down to 36, which taken alone, seriously threatened the supremacy of the party, but it was in Ontario that the conserva- tives won their greatest victories. Spurred on by appeals to patriotism and the cry that reciprocity was the entering wedge for annexation, the conservatiyes swept nearly every thing before them. That province, which in the last parliament was represented by 35 liberals and 51 conservatives, will send a delegation to the next composed of 13 liberals and 75 conservatives.
 A notable feature of the defeat was the opposition's capture of two hith- erto liberal seats in Saskatchewan
 The results at ten o'clock tonight, with few of the distant constitu- encies estimated were:
 Ontario: Liberals 13, eonserya tives 70.
 Quebec: Liberals s6, conservatives p.
 Nova Scotia. Liberals 10. consery- atives, 8.
 New Brunswick: Liberals 8. con- servatives 5.
 Prince Edward Island: Liberals 2 conservatives ?.
 Manitoba: Liberals 1, conserya- tiyes g.
 saskchewan: Liberals ', conserv- atives 3.
 Alberta: Liberals I, conservatives II.
 British Columbia: Liberals 0, con Iservatiyes 6.
 Totals: Liberals S1, conservatives I1s1.
 Opposition majority 30.
 There is no doubt that we have been ldecislvely defeated,' declared Sir Wilfrid Laurier early in the ev- ening at Quebec to a group of frlenci who had gathered with him to heal the returns. T gladly lay down the premiership, a burden which I have lcarried for fifteen years. We be.
 ieved that in making tine reciprocitl agreement We had done something (which would be greatly to the bene