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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 81, 2 October 1931, Page 7

HOLD ON BEAUHAENOIS,

Tasehereau broke an ancient tradition of Quebec in the campaign, ilt has been the practice since Confederation in 1867 to have, what are known as "contradictory meetings," at which all candidates addressed the same gathering. Taschereau departed from the rule, doubtless anticipating the tactics that would be employed against him. Conservative _ hecklers who endeavoured to brtfak up one of his meetings ho denounced publicly as "scoundrels."

The Beauharnois scandal was injected into the campaign by the Conservatives, but made no headway in the light of tho public statement by the president > that corporation, Mr. K. O. Sweezoy, of Montreal, tiiiat although ho had given huge sums to the Federal Liberal Party, ho gavo nothing to members of the Quebec Government or Legislature. Taschercau made it clear that he would do his best to keep the hands of tho Federal Government off Beauharnois, which he said belonged to the province.

Fedoral issues were prominent in the campaign. Quebec has not adopted old-age pensions because tho Premier considers that tho Federal Government, which now pays only half tho pension, leaving the balance to the Provincial Government, should pay the whole amount. Mr. Bennett's plans to relieve unemployment Taschereau doscribed as giving a man a bridle and telling him to get a horse to put it on. The tariff he regards as of no benefit to Quebec.

The people were satisfied with the Liberal regime, which has declared a continuity of surpluses. They wero content to accept tho Liberals for another term, although a half-hearted wish for the introduction of woman suffrage still fell on deaf ears. As for the rest, tho ancient Province goos its way, its birth rate nearly double that of one of the other Provinces, its people loss congregated in cities and urban areas than any other part of the Dominion, the effect of the depression not so severo ns elsewhoro in Canada, and —all in all—a far moro contented ami less restless community than English-speaking Canada.

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