Show REG ISSUE DEFEATS I LIBERAL DEFEAT EFE T IN CANADIAN WILL CAUSE PREMIER PRE PRE- MIER RETIREMENT Liberals Lost Ground In Practically Every Province of the Dom Domain ln Giving Conservatives a Majority of F Fifty In n Parliament Montreal The Tho The Laurier government and reciprocity suffered an overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming defeat in Canada on Thurs Thurs- da day By Dy a political landslide the LIberal Libera Liberal Lib LIb- era eral majority of or three forty-three was away and the Conservative party se secured se secured secured cured one of or the heaviest majorities upward of fifty that any any Canadian party has ever had bad Seven Seyen cabinet ministers who had served with Pre Pre- mier Laurier were among the defeated defeat eld ed cd candidates The Liberals lost ground in practically practically practically cally every province provIn e of the dominion Where they won their majorities were small Where the Conservatives Conserva Conserva- tives won their majorities were tre tre- tre- tre Ontario the leading provInce preY province ince lace of Canada declared almost unanimously unanimously unanimously un un- un- un against the administration and reciprocity Robert L. L Borden leader of the Conservative party will I shortly become the prime minister of ot Canada He will wUl be supported in parliament par part Hament by a working majority of members far more than ample for his purposes I The government defeat means that the Knox fieldIng reciprocity agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment ratified by the American Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress in extra session will not be introduced introduced introduced in in- when the twelfth parlIament parliament parlia- parlia ment assembles next month and that thata a revised basis of trade with the United States looking to closer commercIal commercial com corn mercial relations will not be possible in the immediate future The Conservatives Conservatives Conservatives Con Con- are committed to a policy of trade expansion within the empire and a closed door against the United I States Although he was re-elected re in two I constituencies in Quebec the defeat of the Liberal party party means the re retirement retirement re- re re-I re from public life Ilfe of Sir Wilfrid Wil Wil- frid Laurier who for nearly two decades decades de de- deI de- I cades cade has directed the destinies of the dominion I The ret returns show that 1 12 2 ConservativEs Conservative Conservatives Conser Conser- have been elected while 81 Sl Liberals received majorities giving the opposition a majority of 51 1 |