| Show X V N CANADIAN POLITICS AT FEVER II hEAT EAT Tho Current Campaign Is n a Red Hot Fight on Strict Party Lines LI TT I T Tf f 1 r T tT i VA r 4 f 2 k 9 h hI hAm r I Am AIR sm Sin WIL lUD PolitIcs rages th the Domi nion at the th tin tilt campaIgn be but II a week old and the election only three weeks oft Here are photo of the opposing leaders who are ani conducting the fights on strict PIt lines The Liberals headed by SIr Laurier are In power and aid Sir ChIli Charlie Tupper and his Conservative are to get uA U Nv the Yankee also the ot of the Is i almost over for tor election take lakel place on tile the day lIay after that of time Uti lie States StAte As Is I tIme calM camme noro across the he line there are two princIpal parties rU In the Do Dominion Dominion minion the Conservatives and the Lib Liberals I The Is the party lArty In pow power er arid ami II has been bien so 10 nce lN ISH and from Crom Indications bids fair aIr to remaIn so 10 nut PolItical fortune telling I is a proverbially undertaking and the Conservatives ma may yet et sur lur surprise prise their Liberal Stilt SUII unless the usual signs fall 1111 the government will IH be retained though with a reduced majority The party part In power III ii well organized and confident or of while the Ope op iii II torn by dispute The party pari no Ion longer Iter pos POI IMRI compact it m it II to In u five ot of the MIn in that t lIa I e taken pia sink Since th the I of th grat tIr Ir A party pari lies I Iu I u I I I N ff appearance h ime does doe not possess lI either his or his political ability Altogether the Canadian Con Can party Is In a bad WI way either for a leader or for Cor some definite Issue laue upon which to mock make a good tIght While tb time opposition is III thul thu weaken waken weakened wakened ed the Liberals are fortunate In poi poe Ing In Sir the pree mt ent premier and head of the gorn ment a leader who I is probably the most mOlt POPular man In all Canada Ills personal his hll brilliant stilt It Ity as 81 a speaker and the worth of oC the services he I 1 rendered to tIme Domin DominIon Ion all combine to make him an ami excel lent leader nIl lie ansi his hand handman handman man Joseph Israel Tarle the minister of public works work are popular with Ih he element of oC the populatIon Uon Th The Conservatives Ire are lit at loss for tor an anI I issue pup while the Liberals contend that Ih present greatly greath and antl generally pros prop liMe or of tile the country I is a sum for retaining them In pow r When hen the In control of Ih government In InI T 96 w were re regarded b by the itt at largO large liS as an experiment Hut But they Ien tm to ha Ined the Iha or of the tb people and their return LeI to power pawn is 18 pro probable bl Time The Issues involved In election art are few In Th The Liberate at al elected Oil atm A platform of oC tariff have havi wisely IMly lu in the eyes y of oC the people of the Dominion allowed that lieu to be rele relegated to the rear hae II to the country countr a modified protection system which haa ha gained general approval Their opponents claim that the LIberals lIlY hive stolen ulen their thunder and that the credit for forthe the general genral to them The prohibition ma may lose 1011 seine seats in III the Dominion parliament to the Liberals By Br a plebiscite taken some sometime time ago 0 the f people ot of the DominIon uy by a very ry smelt small majority rnell to Cn vor nr a prohibition policy But Sir WI I frid Lauder bo bc II a man ot of decision and action limit the I of time the vote did not nol show conclusively that Canada Canida was read for prohibition and declined 1 to allo allow the system to be adopted flow many voter were alien alienated by his hll decision will not be known until after SO Nov S 11 lie ii Ie not so 10 personally popular III time part of Canada all as he l Is In the east t but as AI time the latter laUr section contains time the majority of time It may con I bt be predicted that be will again receive a vote vole of at confidence from a mA ins mAjor jor of time people ot of tIme the Dominion |
