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Premier King's Liberals are actually slightly outnumbered by the cohorts of famed Conservative Leader Arthur Meighen, and the Premier himself, having been defeated in the electoral contest for his own seat, may not take his customary place on the floor of the House. Thus it would appear superficially that the King Government has been "repudiated" and ought to resign. However, it happens that the 25 Progressives are typically better friends of the 101 King Liberals than of the 116 Meighen Conservatives; and Premier King is conceded to have a good chance of keeping a Liberal-plus-Progressive Majority together...
...Parliament assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...
Conservative Leader Meighen tensed himself to introduce a motion of "Want of Confidence" against the Government as soon as the House should be declared in session. Unwary, he allowed his attention to be distracted at the critical instant. Liberal House Leader Ernest La Pointe got ahead of him with a motion of "Confidence." The House leaped to its feet, and many a wild word flew...
This tabulation, it will be observed, leaves the Liberals and Premier King with 16 fewer seats than Conservative leader Arthur Meighen and his cohorts can muster, and places the deciding vote in the hands of the Progressives. Now it happens that the Progressive Leader, Mr. Forke, and his supporters are low tariff men. Mackenzie King and the Liberals also have low tariff leanings. But Meighen and the Conservatives are die-hard supporters of a high tariff, and the election has been fought with the tariff as a distinctly major issue. Thus it appeared that Mackenzie King, by allying himself with...
...present election to be brought about in this manner, he did so in the hope that the electorate would give him a definite "mandate" to continue his policies. And the Conservatives, of course, hoped just as devoutly for a "mandate" which would cause the Governor General to ask Mr. Meighen, or some other Conservative, to form a Government to their tastes, as Premier. Since at present no party can claim that the electorate has given its policies decisive endorsement, a widespread discontent is being expressed at the way in which the electioneering was conducted...