People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

•overnmeo* Candidates Rejected la Several CeMtitaeueiea. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 29.—1 t has became apparent that members of the Domiaten cabinet are more widely divided than ever over the bill they have promteed to introduce this session restoring Boman Catholic schools in Manitoba. The four elections which have taken place the past month have resulted each time in a victory for the liberal party. Three of them were held in strongly Roman Catholic constituencies, yet in each case the government candidate, pledged to remedial legislation this session, was rejected and the liberal candidate indorsed, who supported Laurier’s policy urging the appointment of a commission to investigate before remedial legislation is attempted. One fact has been strongly brought out in the elec- ’ tion held in Charlevoix Monday, in which, in defiance of the Roman Catholic bishop’s mandate, read Sunday from various Catholic pulpits, to secure the defeat of Angers, the candidate supporting the liberal leader was elected. In this result emphasis is given to the now prevailing opinion that the Roman Catholic church in Canada is rapidly losing its grip upon the electorate.