Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-22
RECIPROCITY is OVERWHELMINGLY
DEFEATED BY CANADIAN Voters
SENTIMENTAL CONSIDERATION ULTIMATE ANNEXATION
OVTR-sH iDOWED WEIGHT or PROSPECTIVE ECoNO
MIC ADVANTAGES.
EVEN RURAL Communities DISFAV0RED AGREEMENT
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who is a member Of tho Senate was
not required to go before the electors.
Although reelected in two constlt-
uencies in Quebec, the defeat of the
Liberal party also means the retire
ment from public life Of Sir Wilfrid
| Laurier who for nearly two decades,
has directed the destinies Of the Do
minion Several times during tho
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 flfty-three
! from quebec was cut down to thirty
six, which, taken alone, seriously
threatened the supremacy of the par
| ty, but II was in Ontario that the
conservatives won their best victories.
| Suprred on by appeals to patriotism
and the theory that reciprocity was
the entering wedge for annexation,
the conservatives swept nearly every
thing before them. That province,
which in the last parliament was rep
resented by thirty-hve liberals and
ifty-one conservatives, will send a
delegation to the next congress of
thirteen liberals and seventy-fve con-
servatlyes A notable feature of the
defeat was the opposition's carrying
of two liberal seats in Saskatchewan.
The returns at 10 o'clock tonight.
with a few distant districts unheard
from were:
remaining as a semi of the
administration, also was defeated AL
though the majority of seats won by
the conservatives is over half hum
dred, the popular majority against
the government and reciprocity is
even more lower,
The election results indicate that
the Canadian electors were moved by
sentiment NEE than by material con-
sideration.
Liberal speakers and the govern
ment party press, in appealing for
the support of the government and
reciprocity, did so chiefly on econom-
ic grounds, maintaining that it would
prove the prosperity of Canada and
would never lead to annexation with
the United States or to any change
in the political status Of the Domln-
ion.
The conservatives. on the other
hand, while arguing against the eco
nomic advantages of reciprocity.
dealt with more emphasis upon SEN
tmenlal consideration, insisting that
the eventual result of reciprocity
would lead Canada from Great Brit
ain and to the United States.
The people responded to that ap-
peal. Ontario, the largest province
OF, all, in the most whole-heartedly
way, and other provinces. with the
exception of Quebec, Alberta and Sas-
katchewan, hardly less 50. Even the
prairie West, which was supposed to
desire reciprocity above all other
things, and where American settlers
have gone in large numbers, did not
go for the government
1t has been an axiom that the gov
a majority in the Province of quebec,
but the results of todays voting have
destroyed this theory, for the govern
ment, though defeated, retained a
majority in quebec. Many who be-
lieved the conservatives would win
expected the majority to be compar-
atively small, and the result would
be that the French nationalist group
| 81 hnt
ance of power and that Henri Bour-
assa, their leader, would seek cleo
ton, within short time and make
his appearance in parliament to direct
them, If this had been the case they
would have occupied the position
which the Irish party have some times
held in the British parliament, and
would have made the position of the
prime minister an exceedingly diff
cult one.
The splendid majorities obtained
by Borden In the English provinces
will make him practically Independent
of the French group, for he has
working majority without them. The
effect of this will be greatly to min
imize te Nationalist party, which Mr.
Bourassa has been leading for eight
years past.
The retirement of Laurier. now
nearing his SEVENTEEN birthday, will
soon be announced, and Liberal MEM
bers Of parliament will be called
upon to choose his successor.
The defeat of SO many leading cab
met ministers makes 1t difficult &c
say upon whom the choice will fall
Mr.. Fielding, Graham and Fisher had
been spoken of as possible successors
but they have all been defeated.
The result is looked upon as a tri-
umph for the manufacturers oi
Canada. who helped the government
They feared the removal Of duties
upon natural products would be fol
/. lowed with an attack upon the trade
pacts they have enpoyed for many
years.
II had been expected the CITIES
would go against the government and
in a large measure they did. 1t hat