Show ft ff E LIBERAL DEFEAT IN CANADIAN ELECTION WILL CAUSE PRE MIERS MIER retirement liberals lost loot ground in practically every province of the domain giving conservatives a majority of fifty in parliament ament montreal the laurier government and suffered an overwhelming wh elming defeat in canada 0 on i thurs day by a political yol lUcal landslide tho the lib eral majority of forty three was swept away and the conservative party so cured one ot of the heaviest majorities upward of fifty that any canadian party lias has ever had seven cabinet ministers who had served with premier laurier were among tho the defeated candidates the tha liberals lost ground in practically every province pt of the dominion where they won their majorities were small where the conservatives won their majorities were tremendous men dous ontario the leading province of canada declared almost unanimously ani aril against the administration and reciprocity robert L dorden borden leader of tho the conservative party will shortly become the prime minister of 0 canada lie ile will be supported in parliament by a working majority 0 or members far more than ample dorhla for his purposes the government defeat means that the foelding knox reciprocity afree merit ment ratified by the american oon lon trees grems in extra session will not be introduced trod when tho the twelfth parliament assembles next month arid and that a revised reused basis basic of trado with the tha united states looking to closer commercial relations will not be possible in tho the immediate future the conservatives serva sorva tives are committed to a policy of trade expansion within tho the empire and a closed door against tho the enod states although he wet reelected elected re in two constituencies in quebec the defeat of the liberal party means the retirement ti from public life of sir wilfrid rid lauker La urfer who for nearly two de cade it fia had hd ielne it lne b ur abo dominion doi n non tiia TIA Ire r Turna show that conser have been elected while 31 81 liberals received majorities giving the opposition ft a majority of 51 61 |