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Drayton. Guthrie and Cahan actually had more votes between them then Bennett did, but any hope of one dropping out and endorsing the other was ultimately thwarted by their political views being too dissimilar, plus the enmity that Guthrie's speech had generated among the delegates from Quebec, who by and in large supported Cahan. In addition, either Guthrie or Cahan would realistically have needed Manion's delegates in order to defeat Bennett, and Manion was not prepared to support either of them.
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or federal election on the issue. Meighen raised the issue on the floor of the convention but
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No-one dropped out or endorsed any other candidate prior to the second round - unlike future leadership contests, the bottom-placed candidate was not automatically eliminated in each round - but
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While there had been some expectation of a close race between
Bennett and Guthrie, the latter's bungled speech at the convention proved severely injurious to his chances, and resulted in Bennett having a commanding lead in the first ballot. Guthrie finished second, narrowly ahead of Cahan, followed
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Ferguson and Stevens, who worked the convention floor on his behalf. Bennett spoke no French in his speech to delegates. Guthrie misspoke by saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome this, the greatest Liberal convention in all history," and hurt his prospects in Quebec by
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convention chooses to endorse him, I will dissociate myself entirely from the convention." Ferguson's comments were received with a round of boos taking him out of consideration for leadership while also making
Meighen succeeding himself untenable.
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as a "publicly owned and operated utility" and affirmed the "traditional adherence of the
Liberal-Conservative Party to the principle of loyalty to the Crown, and the maintenance of that integral connection of Canada with the
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in 1920 and attempted to forge the alliance into a permanent party called the
National Liberal and Conservative Party. Despite his efforts, most Liberal supporters of the Borden government either returned to the
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1130:. University of Toronto/Université Laval.
1230:. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 47–48.
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536:Liberal-Conservative Party
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320:Winnipeg Amphitheatre,
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805:New Brunswick Premier
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1145:. October 12, 1926.
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524:World War I
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786:referendum
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494:Background
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1266:April 24,
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504:Unionists
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855:highways
637:Victoria
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