(This is the second of ' cerpts taken from the much ltiililgegrogeiigifilve ex- tained in RENEGADE IN POWER: THE Pete: C. Ne I§S’ u(l:)(l'ml,iright Canada’ 1963' Stewart). ’ P '5 ed by M°C‘°“‘"‘d &

2: THE 1957 ELECTION

. 1“ 3 "3i|0n's political histor are seldom disoerruble from their undramatic b ' y‘ Moods and ideas change, men begin to questi§gmmngs' ed beliefs, and finally the shifting political" algceptf finds expression in a strong new leader who 0 llmmi intuitively, manages to gauge the nameless bu? mos found discontent stirring in the land. Having cor-til;-T: i5‘ecict)1r’:ieer.spti‘ie'it‘:sdis£:lnb(ie.amm]Med the naﬂoﬂs mood‘ he

This was the situation in th ‘ ' Canada prepared for its ilvellty-i§iI‘S(li)rg;Ig1e1'(a)_€ .1,.%;7ti..:s Most Canadians in the higher income brackets had 60109 sated With The easy materialism of the lush ffiftles, and found themselves groping for some deeper personal and national purposes. Many citizens at the lower end of the economic scale were frustrated at not having gained a fair portion of the nation's abund- ance.

John Diefenbaker successfully drew upon both these moods to create a shared vision of a more noble future for his countrymen. Audiences at political meet- ings across the country, once described by the dean of Canadian newspapermen, Bruce Hutchinson, as “a collection of dull. skeptical haddock eyes to daunt the boldest politician.” suddenly woke up.

It wasn’t so much what Dlefenbaker was saying, as how he was saying it. In the fabric of their prom- ises. there was little significant difference between the Liberal and Conservative platforms. Brit while Louis St. Laurent read his speeches like legal briefs that he had never seen before. John Diefenbaker pummelled his audience with highly evocative pledges of momen-

tous (and impending) action on their behalf. The BMW

contrast was only accentuated by St. Laurent’s at- tempts to poke fun at his opponent. “An election prom- ise, after all." he patiently explained to his dwindling audiences, “is a mere cream-puff of a thing. with more air than substance in it.” . Although Diefenbaker made a great many specific promises during his cross-country eiectioneering junilcets, his platform did not add up to co-ordinated plans for the grand design he was touting for Canada. Its strongest and most precise planks dealt with parliamentary retorm. lie pledged himself to appoint a “permaneiit" Speaker, to abolish closure, to revitalize parliamen- tary committees. and to call a dominion-provincial conference on Senate reform. Other promises concerned the estanbhslrment of closer trading connections with the United Kingdom to reduce dependence on the United States, a Bill of Rights, and a vigorous new national agricultural policy to achieve some degree of price and income stability in that depressed indust-ry. ' ‘ Diefenbaker spent thirty-niiie days on the campaign trail --

compared with St. l.aurent‘s twenty-eight. He covered a distance of 20.845 miles by rail. plane. and car. and delivered 103 speeches to audiences totalling more than 50.000 in 180 of the country‘; 265 t

riduigs. CAMPAIGN TURNING POINT AT VANCOUVER _ The turning-point. of his campaign probably came in Van-

By PETER C. NEWMAN The Author INSTALMEM 2: rm: 1957 ELECTION

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The Subject

ll-ial‘. to be sworn in as the new ‘Government of Canada. ‘'1. John G€0I‘xe Diefenbaker. do solemn- ly swear that I will serve Her Majesty truly and faithfully in the Place of Her Council in this. H91‘ M.3JPSly's Dominion of Can- ada”; he repeated. bent down to kiss. the ceremonial Bible. glad‘ whispered. “So heip me

With those words. he became the thirteenth man to serve as Prime Minister of Canada. He looked curiously taller that day. and somehow already alone, A man transfixed by ' the lnexlln- guishable wonder of the occas- to

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’Half a mile away, in an oddly silent office at the extreme west end of Parliament Hill, a proud old man was listlessly leaflng throuzh his appointments calen- dar. Flighty-one suppllcants had requested interviews with th e Right Honourabie Clarence Dec- atur Howe for after June I0. but it was doubtful that any of them would want to see him now. He S-llnnzged. Then he leaned over to his telephone table. dialled a number. and ordered his broker to set’. most of his equity stocks.

I don't trust this new bunch." he said and hunt!

—EAST BALTIC

Irvin Robertson and son Glen Kinzsboro. visited with Mrs. Irrvin Robertson who is I pati. ent in the P.E.I. Hospital.

Miss Elsie Jardine. left on re- turn to "’orchester. Ma-ss , hav. lug spent several months with her mower Mrs. James Jardine.

‘e .

Miss Debra Dixon. East Baltic

spent a few days with Mr. and

Line Road.

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Mos- sey and two children spent New Year's with Mrs. Mossev's par-

Mrs. John W. Robertson. Kinizshoro spent several days with her aunt Mrs. Georae Grant, Charlottetown.

Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Jar. dine and son Allan. Klneslinrn 'are visiting with Mrs. Jarrline's parents in Toronto.

Ralph Robertson, well known and efficient mail driver was

IID. NExr:_1'iu- 195» Election L

Mrs. Peter Maclnnls. Sourls§

most pleasantlv surprised on his last. trio with the mail when he was presented at the East Bal-

llho Gllﬂlll-Ila Ulnrloﬂaotowll. Tue!-. Jan. 14. 1904. 7

Move Aloot To Expand lBoundaries Ol Halifax

HALIFAX lCPl-Like a'dow- ‘now handle many more than‘

straining at the confinement of‘ Few sites suitable for de-l its ancient boundaries and a itached buildings are left. Al-l

"““’° '5 5700* i0 all’? ll growl!!! most all new residential con- space by quintupllng its area. ,structlon is apartments, h The §liy_ of 92,511 people is .0PPOSE METRO "°"Ii;';'°squ;l;:0 mlin"l3e;1llrr‘I1sOiil'a M2! : thlvlrﬁ Byai-sd says that‘ cities - . emaeust-otelran. cied by arms of the All tl .1 3 av v ,- .:':.:. »l‘if.‘“.§‘.“.'l...‘i.‘l“.lf;§.‘?. '.::‘‘.*‘..*‘:.°.::*:.: 13 mile-Wide isthmus has not had Ipolltan problems that ‘end to main!‘ <"‘"'lge since it was the establishment of In new drawn in 1841. level of government. I M3307 Charles 5- Vaughan‘ He said that. wherever it met- l‘:e'3ig"bom“’g 3;bui:_’bs5“",‘;'X Jgimi? igopolltan system of government we. =.3fol’°‘i2 ::ai'.:t:. “dis. r" ‘F3ll'Vi9W ﬁnd Snryfleld Pl“! 9.- land dissatisfaction cnargg i400 acres of watershed land '.'1‘m-onto Winnipeg aifd Mr:i‘nt- »west of the city. The annexation ipea] 35' exampiu would be gradually carried out 1, --The way to who mb_ l°V,l‘:}‘;ethI‘:;vg°:,‘:ﬁld add to the urban growth problems is to an- i°"v'= Population about 28.000 n'i§}‘o.§“°u..§’°'.‘i't'§‘“l. ‘iii-".‘.'.'3.‘.e.‘i”‘i;'. ‘people and boost its area from i ‘ it! Present 4.400 acres to about §’§',.,,,,',f'-‘7°§Z°’,‘§,',‘f,‘l sate” 1”

122.090. City manager Peter Byars TRAIN IN INDIA

.says it is apparent that the lty I dl lded t l i ‘f - -.- ._whose population is gmvang ﬂesllfol; pﬂsgrasnunigiefctlllle ]e{i'iy’eyear when the Hil.sboro l and there is a west wind, lit-

by 2.3 per cent a year—cnnnot Colombo Plan in 1962-63.

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CITY DUMP LITTER TROUBLES FARMERS Athol MacDonald's farm at Mermaid looks like this. Ev.

tier from the Charlottetown

ump is carried to this area at Mermaid and Mt. Herbert, Farmers in these areas have voiced concern on several oc-

seem to be any solution at the the new incinerator will help

T44 DORCHESTER STREET of TRADE-IN FURNITURE, RANGES and APPLIANCES

which ha man year of useful service remaining-and at VERY LOW COST!

lc post office with a lamp and nurse of money which was given to him by his patrons of his 20

com or, on May 24. As he entered the Georgia Street Auditoriiitn mile route. Mr. Robertson faced

there. a surging. roaring crowd of three thousand gave him the cal cancer. Another t.wo very rare that he did not make

sitting on curbs, car the trip. His son George Rob- loudspe . ertson is now carrying on the

largrsl and loudest ovation oi his politi

all kinds of weather and it was

After. the first cheers had died down, Dlefenbaker looked ‘at hlﬂ mall route from East. Baltic

I think the Liberal Party is now realizing Canada is aroused has not been aroused in many years." Althouipn his speech broke

. post office. , Miss Bettv Chine. RT. at the g as it P.E.l. Hosoital, Cllal‘l“l~‘9i0WIl I

spent the holidays with her .-

no new ound. he was in-terruipted forty-one times by applause mother Mrs. Clarence Chlng and '

and appreciative laughter. "It is a deep inspiration for me tosee this vast audience." he concluded. “'I\his is the kind of thing that gives me the strength to continue to work on behalf of the average men and women of this country. the botiom of

After Vancouver, his audiences grew in both num-ber and enthusiasm. At Hanover. Ontario, a small Bruce County town in the heart of [liberal Finance Minister Waiter Ham's‘ rid-img. a crovwcl of 2.100 heard Diefennbakers warning that a vote against him was. in effect. a vote a-giainst democracy. "If ymi send this G-overmnent back to office," he threatened. “don' ask Her Maj- esty's loyal Opposition to stand up for your rights. For you no longer will have any rights."

As Difenvbakefs appeal was gabliering momentum across the nation. the Liberal campaign was falling apart. Although the

an imaginative strategy. The Liberals had been so confident of victory’ that they went into the election without filling the sixteen existing vacancies in the Senate.

As late as June 8. the Conservatives appeared to have no prosioect. of forming a izovernment. The final forecast issued by the Cavnvaodian Institute of Public Opinion showed a 43.3 per cent

to 37.5 per cent margin for llhe Llbeimla in the popular vote.

TREND ESTABLISHED increased strength from the

With this tabulation fresh in western provinces; the Liberals his mind John Dlefenbaker re- had held Quebec. For the first turned to Prince Albert. at 11:00 time since 1925. a federal elec-

family. Black Pond.

Mrs. Irving Robertson. Kings- boro is now making a good re- covery from her recent overal- ion in the P.E.I. Ho;nital and expects to return to her home shortly.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hailey. Dundas. spent Christmas with Mrs. Reilly's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Robertson Red Point.

Roddie Kidson, Red Point is , ill at his home.

Miss Macrllyn Dixon. RN, - Charlottetown. spent L‘l1ri<lmas~ with her parents. Mr. and Mrs , Roy Dixon. Bothwell. i

Mr. and Mrs. Merton Bruce. 1 Red Point. have recently moved

Lake spent Christmas with her sister Mrs. and Mr. Stewart

Mscflregor and family. . East altlc.

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Mrs. Arthur Bruce Red Point is out and about again following her illness with the flu.

Miss Mary MacPhee. nurse-

‘f

am. on June 8, exhausted after six gruelling weeks of campaign- lniz. But when he arrived. was told that a Liberal motor- cade was about to swing through the outlying parts of his riding, and that he'd have to do t same. He had been able to spend only three hours in his own con- stituency since the campaign opened. His own organizers were so afraid people resented his ab- Ienee that he spent all of Satur- day barnstormliig through the environs of Prince Albert. On Sunday, he finally rested.

The next day —June 10- in sultry. late- s p rln 3 weather.

but at th

lnitroom radio. The trend was established by the first pol’. to report-sable Island. a tradition- allv Liberal st-ndbar. I80 miles east of Halifax. peopled on‘..v bv mpfqrnrnlodllll Inf‘ HEMKPCD‘ on ‘Hits nlnlit. the sable Island- H‘! vwwf for hlefoiibiilier in a

two votes. Then

’*"“0'- In Vow R1-1incw|ch_ {h P Cc"-Bﬂvatlvpn «mi-ed I Elli‘! hf two "Riv in 0110590 did the Lib- oral fortress hold: lust three-eib tra seats went Tory.

VICTORY N01‘ DECISIVI: Torv victory was far from

The . decisive the CC!‘ and Social noﬂthni but returned with

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tlon had faiied to return a mail- ority to the House of Commons. After one Tory member- elect died and the service vote had been counted the result was:

Conservatives ill Liberals 10 C 25 Social Credit l9 Independents 4

Statistically. what Dlefenbake had accomplished was to in- crease the Conservative vote by 826.830 bsllots—4l8

wasted in safe Quebec seats. The results Iinifled that Dlefenbak- er had persuaded one 1953 Lib- eral voter in twelve to abandon his Party for the Conservatives. Premier Leslie Frost had deliv- red Ontario. Dlefenbaker re- celved 40 per cent of the Ontario

flow from 33 to 81.

The Liberal losses looked even worse on close examination. Nine Liberal ministers-— nearlv half the cnblni-t—had been de-

nd tented. The Liberal Party had

boon cornered into becoming vlrtuallv a French Canadian nnlltlnnl movement. Seventy- flvo of the 106 sent: it retained h a (1 oredcm

mealdnt oopidotlons. or at Jeast

"_-unibstaotlsl Pi-hm-h minorities.

ﬁt. Laurent cmiid consWivtiMinl- l_v remain in office until defeat- ed on n non-confidence vote in the cnmmom. but the Liberal humiliation seemed too great to

...v-mtpo . n f|'UII~¢\I\!v1‘vr1n._

.TI _ . 1957. John Dlefoiibaker and tour Torin an-ind -0 I

Maui

lnnntly French-

ln training at the Charlottetown Hospital. spent the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sept. MacPhee. Little Harbour. Albert Dixon. Sudsbury. 0nt.. is visiting with his mother Mrs. R.W. Dixon, East Baltic. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keus. Klmzsboro. spent Christmas with Mr. Keno‘ parents. Mr.

B . Joseph and Currie Doucette. East Baltic, spent the holidays

9 with relatives In Rustlco.

Mrs. Charles Chintz. Red Point. visited recently with Mrs. Geoiige Grant. Charlottetown.

Misc Noel Holland. North Lake spent a few days with frle in Cardigan.

Miss Riownea Garrett. Char- lottetown. spent the holiday: with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Foster Garrett. East Baltic.

Miss Edith Maccregor. East Baltic spent a few days ‘with friends in Wllmot Valley. PE 1.

pox during the holidays.

Miss Barbara Maclnnls. sourls Line Road spent New Year‘: with Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Dixon. East Baltic.

sterling Robertson and Ed- win Fraser. left on return to Toronto. Ont.. havlnn spent Christmas at their homes In Kinznboro and Red Point.

Earle Kennedy h Ill at his ‘home in Klnnboro.

Miss Joyce Bruce. h\Il'l0-|1I- tralnlmi at the P.ll:.t. Hospital spent ilie weekend with her inr- enta. Mr. and Mn. Wesley Bruce. Bothwell

Miss Alice Kennedy. Boston, Mess.. and formerlv of Kinn-

spent the holiday! with

0. Dior damllv in Charlottetown. u

ONLY AT

[MID FUINITURE WARIITOUSI

"‘ M-lottetown, P. E. I.

USED FURNITURE WAREHOUSE

I44 Dorcliostor Strut

Charlottetown, P. E. I.

144 Dorchester Street

meantime. Mr. Mar-Donald is

wondering what can be done about die present mess. “There will be a big cleaning 10b in the_spring." he says.

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