London Evening Advertiser
- Choosing the ministry is the next step
- Grounds for an election protest seen in London
- Thousands of children at the fairgrounds
Post-election cabinet speculation and a possible local election protest share the page with children’s day at the Western Fair. The expanded passages recover explicit uncertainty about appointments and legal action, alongside concrete details of school closures, picnics and half-price food.
Selected opening and qualifying passages from three major articles. Long cabinet-name lists, legal quotation and fair-board business are not fully transcribed.
Translation
Choosing the ministry is the next step
Ottawa, Sept. 16.—Important changes in the King Government are anticipated at the Capitol, due largely to the fact that election contingencies do not loom so large following the recent election as they did in 1925. Mr. King can pick and choose his ministers for their fitness for portfolios, and practically ignore the possibility of defeat in the by-elections.
Hon. James A. Robb will resume the portfolio of finance, and Hon. Ernest Lapointe again be minister of justice. The ministry of customs will go to Hon. Chas. Dunning or some public man of outstanding calibre brought in for the special purpose. It is understood that he will not be selected from the elected members, but will be given a seat in whatever province he comes from.
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All forecasts, however, are still in the nature of conjecture.
Grounds for an election protest seen in London
In the opinion of a number of prominent Liberals of the city, the distribution on the morning of election day, presumably by agents of the Conservative party, of a dodger dealing with the Liberal candidate, Dr. W. J. Stevenson, and his stand on temperance in 1914, constitutes sufficient ground for protesting the election of the Conservative candidate. Whether or not any action in that direction will be taken depends upon the decision made by the Liberal executive, which will meet this afternoon, and will have this particular angle of the recent campaign under consideration.
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Showed Paper of 1914.
The dodger in question was a reproduction in miniature of the front page of The Advertiser of June 22, 1914, announcing the nomination of Dr. Stevenson as a candidate against the late Sir Adam Beck.
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But in their anxiety to conceal their identity the perpetrators of the scheme carefully omitted to have the name of the printer or publisher shown on the face of the dodger, which brings it under the heading of “illegal practices,” the penalty for which, if traced to the agents of a candidate, is disqualification for five years.
Thousands of children at the fairgrounds
Young London today took possession of the Western Fair grounds. Swarming through the turnstiles shortly after 7 o'clock, school children made an early start through the buildings. With the schools closed both today and tomorrow, it is expected that record crowds will attend the exhibition.
While children composed the majority of the visitors at Queen's Park, there was no scarcity of adults and many of these arrived from out-of-town points throughout the morning.
The recent rains had little effect on the grounds and at noon the multitude was sitting about on the lawns, while groups here and there spread out lunches and enjoyed the noon meal picnic fashion.
Concessionnaires gave the boys and girls a royal welcome. The hot-dogs and the hamburgers, the finely-colored drinks of elusive flavors were reduced to half-price so that the dimes and nickels which had so lately reposed in tin banks would go twice as far as on the other days.
Context
Why a new minister might need another election
Canada still required MPs appointed to Cabinet to vacate their seats and seek re-election, a rule abolished in 1931. Choosing ministers therefore involved a second electoral risk even after a general election. The September 16 report argues that King’s position after the September 14 vote gives him more freedom to choose for ability. Its discussion of finding a seat for an outsider belongs to the same practical problem: assembling an administration that can also secure representation in Parliament.
A twelve-year-old newspaper in a new election
The leaflet drew on the authority of a surviving newspaper page: readers could see what had been reported about Stevenson’s temperance position in 1914. By reproducing that page on polling day in 1926, its distributors revived an old controversy when there was little time to answer it. The Advertiser was also part of the dispute, since its own earlier reporting supplied the material. Its account presents the Liberal objection to both the campaign tactic and the anonymous publication.
An agricultural fair becomes a children’s holiday
The Western Fair Association began in 1867 with the merger of local agricultural and horticultural societies. By the day described here, the exhibition also offered an urban family outing: school holidays brought children together, visitors arrived from outside the city, and cheap food and picnic space helped make a day of it. The report shows how an institution rooted in agriculture could connect the surrounding district with London’s everyday leisure.
Original
Choice of Ministry Next Step
Ottawa, Sept. 16.—Important changes in the King Government are anticipated at the Capitol, due largely to the fact that election contingencies do not loom so large following the recent election as they did in 1925. Mr. King can pick and choose his ministers for their fitness for portfolios, and practically ignore the possibility of defeat in the by-elections.
Hon. James A. Robb will resume the portfolio of finance, and Hon. Ernest Lapointe again be minister of justice. The ministry of customs will go to Hon. Chas. Dunning or some public man of outstanding calibre brought in for the special purpose. It is understood that he will not be selected from the elected members, but will be given a seat in whatever province he comes from.
[...]
All forecasts, however, are still in the nature of conjecture.
Ground for Protest in London Seen
In the opinion of a number of prominent Liberals of the city, the distribution on the morning of election day, presumably by agents of the Conservative party, of a dodger dealing with the Liberal candidate, Dr. W. J. Stevenson, and his stand on temperance in 1914, constitutes sufficient ground for protesting the election of the Conservative candidate. Whether or not any action in that direction will be taken depends upon the decision made by the Liberal executive, which will meet this afternoon, and will have this particular angle of the recent campaign under consideration.
[...]
Showed Paper of 1914.
The dodger in question was a reproduction in miniature of the front page of The Advertiser of June 22, 1914, announcing the nomination of Dr. Stevenson as a candidate against the late Sir Adam Beck.
[...]
But in their anxiety to conceal their identity the perpetrators of the scheme carefully omitted to have the name of the printer or publisher shown on the face of the dodger, which brings it under the heading of “illegal practices,” the penalty for which, if traced to the agents of a candidate, is disqualification for five years.
Thousands of Children on Grounds
Young London today took possession of the Western Fair grounds. Swarming through the turnstiles shortly after 7 o'clock, school children made an early start through the buildings. With the schools closed both today and tomorrow, it is expected that record crowds will attend the exhibition.
While children composed the majority of the visitors at Queen's Park, there was no scarcity of adults and many of these arrived from out-of-town points throughout the morning.
The recent rains had little effect on the grounds and at noon the multitude was sitting about on the lawns, while groups here and there spread out lunches and enjoyed the noon meal picnic fashion.
Concessionnaires gave the boys and girls a royal welcome. The hot-dogs and the hamburgers, the finely-colored drinks of elusive flavors were reduced to half-price so that the dimes and nickels which had so lately reposed in tin banks would go twice as far as on the other days.
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