Word: meighen
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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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...
...date of the general election in Canada being only a month away (Oct. 29), it seems ever more probable that the slim, dark and solemn Mr. Arthur Meighen will supplant the jolly, red-cheeked bachelor, Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, as Premier...
Among the many Conservative candidates who hope to sweep into Canada's Parliament under banner of Mr. Meighen, is Professor .William Levi Carlyle. An agricultural scientist, he is trying to persuade the Western Progressives of Alberta to send at least one Conservative to Ottawa. His chances of succeeding are reported to be excellent because of the somewhat irrelevant fact that he is manager of the ranch of Royal Highness, Edward of Wales...
...Arthur Meighen, leader of the Opposition, said that, if His Excellency would consent to remain, it would meet with almost universal approval. He hoped that the Government would make an official statement to, that effect...