In Eastern Ontario, the stronghold of the Tupper Government, the Liberal gains came troop ing in. Ottawa, with two Government seats, turned over. The Hon. Peter White (Speaker of the House of Commons) was defeated in the place where the lumbermen dwell, which shows con clusively that the Government’s timber policy was not popular. In other places in the east, where gains were not made, majorities were reduced.
The election of patrons in Prince Edward and Froutenac counties shows that patriotism still lurks in the Bay of Quinte district, but that its existence and influence are not extensive any place else. In the counties west of Toronto the school policy waa in evidence, and English-speaking Catholics, not attracted to Laurier by race, appa rently obeyed the wishes of the bishops more than did their French co-religionists. . In Ontario the old-liners voted on the national policy, but it was the school question that caused changes from one party to the other. Winnipeg was won to the Conservatives by fraud. Manitoba and the North-west, by electing eight opposed to the Government, spoke in no un certain sound about their determination to with stand any attempt to impose on the West a system of separate schools.
