GOVERNMENT DEFEATED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 7, 30 July 1930, Page 5

GOVERNMENT DEFEATED

ELECTION IN CANADA VICTORIOUS CONSERVATIVES VOTERS REJECT MINISTERS OTTAWA, July 28. The defeat of the Liberal Government appears probable on the basis of the returns till 11.10 p.m. eastern standard time. , . » The election of .187 members out ol 245 gives the Liberals 02, the Conservatives 115 and the others 10. Ministers defeated include Messrs Dunning, Cannon, Crovar and W. F. Kay and one Minister without portfolio, Dr. Cyrus MacMullau (Minister of Fisheries)Later returns indicate that the Government has definitely been defeated. The Conservative Party broke into the Liberal province of Quebec, securing 21 seats out of 05, which had formerly been a solid bloc for the Liberals. Mr Bennett (Conservative Leader; claimed that this gave him a majority in the House, and he would be ready to form a Government next week when called upon by the Governor-General. SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY OTTAWA, July 29. The returns at 2.17 a.m. to-day shared the position of the parties as follows: — 1 Conservatives 127 Liberals 79 Others • 16 The Conservatives made extensive gains in Quebec and Manitoba and increases in all the provinces except Brrtish Columbia, where the Liberals gainled four seats in the Vancouver district. Both the leaders, Mr MacKenzic King and Mr Bennett were elected. Another message states that it is expected that Mr Bennett will be installed within a week with a majority * of. 10 to 15 over all other parties. It was upqn the so-called Dunning Budget which featured British preference that Mr MacKenzic King appealed to the country, but other issues very noticeably entered the contest-’For example, unemployment, which was directly responsible for Mr Dunning defeat. Then for the first time since the days of Sir Wilfrid LaurKr, the Conservatives broke the Liberal hold upon French-Catholic Quebec. All these years the Quebecers never forgave Canada’s war-time Conservative-Union-ist Government for enforcing conscription on that province and the Conservative capture of 20 seats out of 65 there has caused a tremendous surprise. In Protestant Ontario, the Conservatives •won 60 out of 82 seats. Early on Tuesday the parties stood as follows: — Conservatives 136 Liberals 83 Others 19 Doubtful 7 Mr MacKenzie King, the Liberal Leader took office on September 25, 1926, when a new House was chosen as follows: Liberals 118; Conservatives 91; Liberal Progressives 11; United Farmers, Alberta 11; Progressives 9; Labour 3 and Independents 2.

ELECTION FULL OF. SURPRISES. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 9.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, July 29. The election is lull of surprises. In many ways it recalled 1911, when the Liberals were deiald on the Fielding Budget of reciprocity with the United States by the deilection of the Quebec Liberal block. The Government went to the country on Monday largely on the Dunning Budget of increased British preference, and Quebec returned twenty - four Conservatives, New Zealaud butter and restricted American markets being th e prime factors in a dairying country. Mr Bennett, with a following of 136, has a clear working majority without the help of the depleted Independent groups. It is th e first time since the war the Governmnt has bean in this position. Mr Bennett has pledged himself to call a special session of Parliament to deal with unemployment, but the question of Canadian representation at the Imperial and Economic Conferences must be speedily decided. The task of Cabinet making has been simplified by thet election of a dozen Conservatives who are ex-Cabinet ministers, CONSERVATIVE GAINS. Conservative gains are notable all ove r the country, especially in Manitoba. where the party won twelve seas against none last election. Miss Agnes Macphail, a Unit'll Lamer candidate, for Grey SouthWest, is the only woman elected.