The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-21
ROBERT L. BORDEN CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY
 or HIS TRIUMPH

Tins is 2 red letter day in the life history Of Robert L. Borden, who at President Of the Privy Council of the Dominion of Canada It was just a year ago today. it will be recalled, that the sovereign voters of Canada took the still; dead form of the Field ing-Knox reciprocity agreement out to the political cemetery and buried rectfon, and some say not. Thus what was hearalded as the great triumph of the Taft adminfstra ton became its most signal defeat Thus Sir Wilfried Laurier retired as Prime Minister, and Robert L. Borden was given the job of forming a new gov ernment.
 For eleven years MT Borden had been the leader of the Outs before he triunphed and became the. head man of the Ins. As leader of His Majesty's Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons, he had received a salary of S7.0o0 year, in addition to $2,500 as a member of Parliament. the latter sub Ject to deduction of $15 per diem for days not spent on the job. As Premier his salary is s12, GOO, in addi- -tion to the. s2.5eO
 MT Bordens ancestors were origi- nslly from Normandy, and there were those among them who were mernb CTS of William the Conqueror's personal ly conducted excursion to England. County Kent was the home of the Bordens until the latter part of the seventeenth century when Richard and John Borden settled in Provincetown, Mass John and Richard have many descendants among the influential men of today in the United States. Sr Mass. and settled in Nova Scotia, founding the Canadian branch of the family of which the present Premier is an honored member
 Robert L. Borden was born at Grand Pre-. in Nova Scotia, in 1854 was ed- tcated as a lawyer, and was first elected to ParIiament in 1896. In that same year the government of Sir Charles Tupper and the Liberals came into national power. so that Borden the Opposition side. In 1900 Sir Chas. Tupper was defeated in electoral attempt to regain his lost power, and the Conservatives began to clamor for a new leader. The choice fell on the quiet serious. alert young man from Nova. Scotia Until last year he had to be content with being the leader of the Outs
 For years Canada has been offering to enter into trade reciprocity agree ment with the United States. but the unEalmnt Uncle Sam had refused to reciprocate. With MT. Taft in the Presidential chair reciprocity became Congress passed an act designed to make it effective. The Liberal gov the issue. so the Conservatives natur- ally opposed it. MT. Borden's cam paign was one of the most masterly ever conducted in any country. He toward annexation, waved aloft the Union Jack. and asserted and re-as serted that Canada is autonomous nation within the British Empire and is closely and inseparably united to that empire by ties of kinship. of sen tsment and of fealty." Standing pat nrs s<>is platform. MT. Borden won, t:-s Liberal majority of forty-three was swept away, and the Conservatives secured a ajority of forty-nine- The people of Uncle Sam's country, thus routed, were left to console them selves with the reflection that, any, way. MT. Taft had demonstrated that Ise could beat MT. Borden at golf.