CANADIAN POLLS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1926, Page 2

CANADIAN POLLS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

LIBERALS SUCCESS. MONTREAL, Sept, i 5

Air McKenzie King (Liberal Leader) has been elected with a clear working maiority over the Conservatives. Air King is assured of the support of the Liberal Progressives, thus giving him a total of 126 to date, where of onlv 123 are needed for a major-

Morcovor. the Liberals would eer tainly command some votes from the other smaller groups. The Premier. Mr Mciglicn. was defeated in his own constituency by his former law partner, Air McPherson.

The Conservatives lost heavily in Ontario, the Liberals there gaining li scats.

ENGLISH PRESS VIEWS. LONDON. Sept, 16.

Tho “Daily Chronicle” says-. “Canadian Lilxralisni owes much of its success to tlte completion of a reciprocal treaty with Australia, which is one. of the germs of inter-Empire free Iv.ulo, which is finding increased acceptance in more than one Dominion. Tho Canadian Liberals must now take account of the Progressives’ demand for tariff reductions by stages, in order to remove from the Western farmer part of the burdens that were heaped upon him by file Eastern manufacturers.”

The “Daily Telegraph” says: There is no Free Trade jiarty in Canada, hut only high and moderate tariff policies. This election is a victory for the'latter. but probably the ehioi factor in bringing (about the result was the feeling that the Liberals, with the solid backing of Quebec, are in a better position than the Conservatives at the end of the confusion, to give the country settled government for some years.