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Show RECIPROCITY DEVELOPED . IIWGDICY Hon. Clifford Sifton. Always Al-ways a Liberal, Stumps for Conservatives. PLACES HIS COUNTRY BEFORE HIS PARTY Both Parties Predict Rain to Each Other as Result of Campaign. " """ BY FEEDEEIO J. HABKWT TORONTO. Canada. Aside from. the insurgency of the Nationalist party ia Quebec, tip present reciprocity eara- paign in Canada has developed the fact that there ia a considerable degree of I independence of party alliances to all parts of the dominion. Aa ia alwaj the case, the majority appears to hare enfered the greater loss, although the . partisan Liberal papers declare . that they will gain as mnch from Conaerva- five ranks a they will los to the Tone on account of reciprocity. By all odds, the most prominent Liberal Lib-eral insurgent is the Honorable Clifford Jifton, formerly minister of the interior In the Lsurier cabinet, and before that attorney genrrnl of Manitoba. Until two or three year, ago, Mr. Jifton was regarded as one of the ablest leaders of th Liberal party, and even after he had ' cooled in his loyalty to Sir Wilfrid the prime minister put him at the bead of the official organization for the conservation conser-vation of natural resources of Canada. When the negotiation of the rei-procitv rei-procitv agreement was first announced, Mr. Hifton publicly declared that h would be unable to support th government govern-ment on that measure, although -the crain growers of his home province of Manitoba were heartilv ia favor of it. The Liberal leaders, b-fore the campaign opened, indulved the hope that Mr. 8if-V 8if-V ton would not actively onoose th par- ' tv. and that he would content himself with silent disapproval. Sifton DUappotnUd later;!. t In this. "rnwrr. thv were disappointed, disap-pointed, for Mr. Hifton took th ataaip earlv in the campaign and ha been epeakinc in manr consfitueaci ia 1m-for'rif'thr'r'onscrvative 1m-for'rif'thr'r'onscrvative candidate, baaing baa-ing hi action altogether on the reciprocity reci-procity issue. -rVominent Liberals declare de-clare 'that Mr. Sifton ha been out' of sympathy with hi party for some years and that his bolting waa only a question of tiim but this is vehemently denied hv tk. f 'Anaervativefl. who sav f bat. Vr. rilftoa placed his country i efore hi partv. ard was rootigh of a pstriot to resist th insidious American attack npoo Canadian nationality at th sacrifice sacri-fice of hia own party tics. ' In the eitv of Toronto, which is solid-- solid-- ly Conservative, reluming 6v Tory memiicrs to parliament, almost the first gun in the campaign was fired bv the irsurgents. Ki'hteen prominent bnsinesa mea of th citr, all of them Liberal, aigned a manifesto, declaring their irrevocable ir-revocable opposition to the reciprocity pact. aserting that its ratidrntion would undermine the entire . Canadian tariff - evstem and result in disaster to tb industrial in-dustrial prosperity of the dominion. Two Liberal member of the last parliament par-liament openlv opposed reciprocity. yn before dirsoiution. tme or mem. r.. I.lovd Harris, did not seek renomination and he is actively supporting a Conserr-ativ Conserr-ativ rasd dtt to succeed himself. The o'her. W. M. Oermn of Welland. in the Nisgira fruit prowing belt. alo spoke against reeip'O'ilv iita' last parlia roent.- T this esmpaign th Conservatives Conserva-tives nominated him as their own randi date. When the Liberal convention met, there was stiong o-irwi'ron to hia re-nomination, re-nomination, bnt as Mr. German is probably prob-ably the most populitr man ia puhlie life in hi section, the l.ib'ral oroniratioi was unwilling to repudiate him. more V ieaneeially, since he protested tht on all i.tber issues h ws still a Liberal. He " , rave a pledg to the convention that , while he oipoed reciprocity, h would abid bv th verdict of th country on th issu and- that in tb event th Lnurirr government was snstained and he reciprocity srreraent thereby an-nroved. an-nroved. lie would aot actively oppo-; It. Accepting thi pledg. th eonven-. eonven-. tln renominated him and Mr. German ieeaae the unopposed candidate of both Tones an.l Crit in hi riding. Th next week 'an insurgent convention of pro-reciprocity Liberals placed an Independent Inde-pendent in the Held sgaintt him., Laariar Victory Predicted. Against the thintrs. the Liberal make much of the fnet that in some ridings where the Conservntives have keretoforo had a matoritv. sentiment for reciprocity ia so strong that Conservative Conserva-tive candidates have aought re-eleetion b tacitly giving their approval to the reriprofitT acraement. I ma is aaaenea to be tm of avil oi!f itunia in the wat. ai-J of aome of th lak rid-- rid-- ' ine of Ontario. For inat. Oliver Wilcx. th ( onrative candidate in tha north riiin of Prx. in Ontario, bit with his L'b ral opponent, whea h deeltred pnblt. Iv ia a a- tch that th riprocitv nact would b T.itififd. Th atatervent n mad Id joint de-bnt de-bnt with hia Libral opposent. whea he replied to th Utter 'a rffumnt for riprecitv ia tbia lrwicuaffo: Wht difference do it Baker I beJirr that ljiuner wUl farrv the country, and you will bar roar reciprocity, aad thre ore, a vote for me will aoi natter." The rarttaaa acwipapera make tntieh of the bolters on both side. The Liberal Lib-eral papers endeavor to minimize the effect of tb inaonreney of Mr. Hifton and the eightf&a Toronto Libera la, but " never fail to 'p-r up" aa interview wrtk s Tory1-ho wrer.'obs tire, whea 7 that Tory -prediets sueeeas for ree- procitv. 1-onc letters suppoxtinx rei-prueity rei-prueity sad aifrned "A Life Ionf 1 Tory.' "A hnpporter ftir John." "A a Old Couatrv Conaervative are VContinued oa pag 4.) ... a RECIPROCITY DEVELOPED INSURGENCY (tostinned from page 1.) given nioch apace, sad all of them usually wind up with the declaration that on September 1, for the first time, the writer will cast bin ballot for a Liberal candidate for parliament. One Liberal paper printed list of 234 prominent Ontario farmers, all Tories, who were going to vote for Laurier. Bolters oa Honor Koll. ' . Having tha advantage of the greater prominence of the boltere from taa Liberal Lib-eral party, the Tory press makes even more ado along this line. The Montreal Mont-real Star, perhaps tha moat bitter opponent op-ponent of reciprocity ia tha Canadian Ereaa, published a long list of bolting r hers Is under the bold headlines of "The Honor Roll," "Country Before Party." At the ton of a column was a Canadian fitter and them followed in bold type a long list of lifelong Liberals who ara "still Liberals, but unable to swallow reciprocity." Coramcntiag -upon this list, the Star-said: "The I truth ia that the Taft plot will be defeated de-feated in tha country ha hoped to capture, cap-ture, by a landslide of Liberal votes against thia son-Liberal proposal, and it is oaly fair to recognize that clear vision oa thia point ia of more merit ia a Liberal than in a Conservative. It is eaay for a Conservative to vote agaiast reciprocity, for hia party ia against it, but it ia sot ao easy for a Liberal. He must bring himself to distrust dis-trust the judgment of hia leaders, to reject a program which he ha accepted without question from bit youth, and to vote sgsinst a party whose general policy he approves and whose name he love, but tha greater th sacrifice, the greater the patriotism the higher respect re-spect for hi -leaders, th deeper th foundation of hi independent judgment. judg-ment. We predict a landslide on the 21st, a landslide that will bury this latest ruse of tba acquisitive Americana Ameri-cana forever." Ardent Tory partisans predict that th anti-reciprocity insurgency, will prove the destruction of the Liberal party. The Liberals, oa the other hand, assert that the Conservatives have wrecked their future by eppoaiag reciprocity, reci-procity, declaring that although the prominent Tory leadera, inspired try the deaira for. office, hava remaiaed true to th Borda leadership, many of them realize that the opposition, to reciprocity Is an error and that the rank aad 61 of th Conservative voter ia the rural districts especially will Manifest this disapproval by saving nothing and then silently voting against th Try candidate, tt ia oa thjs sliest sl-iest vote that the Liberals beee their predictions of a. greatly decreased Tory majority ia th province of Ontario. aUclprocit Not a Part Xtes. Liberals whs deny that the Siftoa insurgency porteads psrTy disunion point out th fart that in the Americas congress the reciprocity pact, although originating with th Bepublican presi-dsnt, presi-dsnt, was opposed by a majority of Republicans ia both the house of representatives rep-resentatives and the senate. They aay that reciprocity waa not made a party issue oa th A merles n aid of the line, and that in view of th past history of th two Canadian parties, it will be impossible im-possible to make it strictly a party question on th Canadiaa lids of th henndary. ' Nevertheless, th Liberal papers rejoice re-joice whenever they find one Tory wh is for reciprocity, while th Conservative Conserva-tive nresa kerne, ud a eoatiaual dia about tha patriotism of thoae grit whs "placa eoantrv before party" and who refuse to permit Hit Wilfrid "to acll out his country to the Yankee." What ia aow known aa "insargaa-v" "insargaa-v" in the United Htate. the aame thing that ased to be called "boltiag," ia known ia Caaadiaa political parlance aa "rattiag." Th word, it i presumed, pre-sumed, wa derived from the aacjent parable of th rata that deaerted a sinking sink-ing ship. Oa correspoadeBt at a Caaadiaa Caa-adiaa Liberal newspaper, aa aaony-moua aaony-moua genius who hide his light under th single iaitial "S," thus aixea up the whole aituatioa: "Here is my view of the situation: Liberal moaopbltst 'ratting' from the party against reciprocity; Conservative farmers, fishermen aud workmen 'ratting' 'rat-ting' ia favor of it. Ballot counted. Result: Nobody hurt. Taaea taken off food. Larger market aad more trade. Tha maple leaf forever." ' |