Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — RECIPROCITY DEFEATED BY CANADIANS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RECIPROCITY DEFEATED BY CANADIANS

Policy for Which President Taft Has Labored is Reacted across the Border. SIR WILFRID LAURIER FALLS WITH LIBERALS Opposition Completely Turns Tables Upon Him and Will Have 43 Majority in Parliament-«-Nation-alists Cut but Poor Figure—Ottawa Goes Wild with Joy,

Ottawa, Sept 22.—The Laurier government and reciprocity are beaten decisively. The opposition has completely turned the tables on Laurier, whose majority in the house of commons at dissolution was 43. The combined opposition majority will be probably 43. The figures in the twelfth parliament will probably be 132 Conservatives and Nationalists and 89 Liberals. The Nationalists cut a poor figure, electing only two. R. L. Borden, the next prime minister, will therefore have a big majority of his own kind of straight back of him and all the speculation about the ac-

ti vities of the Nationalists in the next parliament goes for naught. The Liberals lost practically all along the line Even the west provides its disappointments. Returns from the west are incomplete, but returns from the east are practically complete. The line up in the next parliament by provinces, as indicated by latest reports, will be as follows: British Columbia —Five Conservatives, two Liberals. • Alberta —Two Conservatives; five Liberals? Saskatchewan —Three Conservatives, seven Liberals. Manitoba Seven Conservatives, three Liberals'. Ontario Seventy-four Conservatives; twelve Liberals. Quebe't —Twenty-four Conservatives, including two Nationalists, and fortyone Liberals. New Brunswick —Six Conservatives, seven Liberals. Nova Scotia —Nine Conservatives, nine Liberals. Prince Edward Island —Two Conservatives, two Liberals. Yukon, wita its one member, where the election is deferred to January and has been considered safely Liberal, will probably follow' the crowd. Eight ministers have been defeated. They are Fieldng and Paterson, authors of reciprocity agreement; Sir Frederick Borden, minister of militia; Graham, minister of railroads; King, minister of labor; Bureau, solicitor general; Fisher, minister of agriculture, and Templeman, minister of the interior. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was elected in Soulanges, having already been Chosen by acclamation in Quebec East. Ottawa is wild. The Conservatives won both Ottawa seats from the Liberals. After having been out in the cold for fifteen years they are in a delirium of joy. Cabinet making will be the favorite pastime for weeks to come. - No one is more surprised than the Tories themselves. The defeat ends Sir Wilfrid Laurier's career. He is in Quebec and there is much speculation here among his lieutenants as to what he will do. The concensus of opinion is that he will not assume the leadership of the opposition, but will retire to private life. He has said that when the time came for him’to retire from parliament he wrould like to have a place on the, Ottawa improvement commission.

TAFT IS DISAPPOINTED

News of Reciprocity Defeat Reaches Him in Kalamazoo. - Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept 22. The news of the defeat of reciprocity and

SIR WILFRID LAURIER.