Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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An Outsider. In the general election of 1900, when the great Laurier was running for his second term as Prime Minister,
State Auditor "Jumping Joe" Ferguson. A sign on his desk reads: "The politician thinks about the next election; the statesman thinks about the next generation." Joe was plainly thinking about the next election. Said he: "There ain't nobody going to get me out of this race."
This was not a mark of disrespect; they did not recognize him. Louis St. Laurent possesses to a marked degree the 19th Century attributes of probity, confidence and dignity?which seem to be taking on a new luster as the undignified 20th Century reaches its halfway point. He does not...
Louis was a student at St. Charles-Borromee Seminary, a bilingual (French-English) college in Sherbrooke. Because seminary discipline kept him indoors on election night, St. Laurent plotted with an outsider to bring election returns from the local newspaper office and tie them to a string dropped from his dormitory...
Test No. 1. St. Laurent's first big test in public life came in 1944 when his own French Quebec lined up against conscription for overseas service. Although most politicians thought he was committing political suicide, St. Laurent came out for the draft. In the next election, he astounded everybody...