Successor To Mr. Bennett
(Received 2.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, July 7. I Dr. R. J. Mauion. a war veteran doctor, was chosen to succeed Mr. R. i B. Bennett (as leader, in a second balj Jot at the Conservative Party conj vention. Dr, Manicn is an advocate jof moderate tariffs, and greater deI fence by Imperial co-operation, i Previously, Mr Bennett had refused j a strong demand that he continue ! as leader. i Mr W. D. Herridge, Mr Bennett’s ! brother-in-law. created a storm after j his monetary reform resolutions had ; been rejected, with the declaration | that the whole convention was “a lot { of bunk” and reactionarily controlled. |He was howled down with shouts of I “Jeremiah,” i
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Northern Advocate, 8 July 1938, Page 3
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