CANADIAN ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 9

CANADIAN ELECTION

POLLING TO-MORROW

ISSUE QUITE UNCERTAIN

COALITION GOVERNMENT MAY

BE NECESSARY.

(United Preis Association.— Copyright.) (Received 13th September, 10 a.m.) Ottawa', 12th sept.

With the General Election 48 hours' off, probably the most unusual political campaign in the history of Canada has drawn to an end. Both sides arc confident of victory, but, with tho issues radically changed since, the dissolution of Parliament, observers arc unable to predict the outcome. The Conservatives claim that they will win 130 out of 245 seats, and the Liberals 120, but fifteen constituencies, where the so-called "Progressives" nnd "Fusionists" were nominated, notably in Ontaria and Manitoba, may decide the election. All observers, however, agree that in the event of tho major parties failing to secure the requisite majority, some form of a Coalition Government will be constituted, "regardless of what compromise must be resorted to in order to obviate another election.

_ Tho campaign began with the question constitutionality uppermost, the result of the Governor-General, Lord Byng's refusal t. dissolve Parliament upon Mr. Mackenzie King's request, but latterly all the old issues which have always dominated Canadian politics camo to the fore, notably, the maintenance of the Canadian National Railway and Protection. It is interesting to note that Imperial questions for the most part, havo been scrupulously avoided.