The other mini-TL I wrote with the Pearson one, Reason before Passion. Paul Sauvé's stratospheric personal popularity, a booming economy and the Unionist centre-right tack all keep swing voters in the government fold. While the Liberals knew their position was hopeless long before (even Liberal internal polling, as Georges Lapalme would later write, had the UN "sweeping almost everywhere"), they ran on a boldly reformist centre-left platform. Before the election Sauvé had convinced Diefenbaker to grant Quebec a deal on hospital insurance compensation similar to the one negotiated on federal university grants, though the Quebec plan would not start operating until 1963. While there were no debates as such until 1964, the two leaders did appear at a joint bilingual forum moderated by La Presse and the Montreal Star in mid-campaign. Lesage narrowly lost his chosen seat of Quebec-Ouest by less than 1000 votes, but he saw it as a blessing. The PLQ was nearly bankrupt and Lesage had told close aides before the election he would need to resume practicing law in order to support his family if the financial situation did not improve. For his part, Paul Sauvé's "Onwards and upwards" from his victory speech set the tone for his first full term. John Diefenbaker publicly and privately called it a "magnificent victory", but also felt 1962 would be time to return the favour...
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As was expected, Weeks was saddled with an opposition Congress. Worse yet he was hit with a recession, fueled by the collapse of Austro-Hungary and the multiple claimants to the throne in July 1919. The post Great War world was not very friendly to New York stock brokers, with various Labour, Socialist, and Communist Parties taking over around the world: Tokyo, Instanbul (or what remained of it), and even a self-proclaimed "Workers Republic of the Germans" in the impoverished and ruined Ruhr area. It was a good year overall for the International Socialists, many people flocking to them in the ruins of the old world.
Weeks had a tepid and difficult beginning, publicly stating his policy of refusing to meet with the Socialist Party leaders, as well as "Benedict La Follette". That and vetoing of many popular bills, an old age pension that almost unanimously passed the House for an example, made him a figure worthy of contempt in even his own parties eyes. La Follette's House was organized on a personal, rather then partisan basis. He juggled relations with the White House via the sympathetic Republicans, and officially announced his departure from the Republicans, and into the hands of the Socialists. Many progressive Republicans and even some Populists followed. While most were in the urban working class districts, some came from the rural areas, like Democrat-turned-Populist-turned-Socialist Edward M. House of Texas.
La Follette promised to continue his policies of "National Governance", regardless if the White House would like or accept it.
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*John Calhoun Bell biography
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Weeks had a tepid and difficult beginning, publicly stating his policy of refusing to meet with the Socialist Party leaders, as well as "Benedict La Follette". That and vetoing of many popular bills, an old age pension that almost unanimously passed the House for an example, made him a figure worthy of contempt in even his own parties eyes. La Follette's House was organized on a personal, rather then partisan basis. He juggled relations with the White House via the sympathetic Republicans, and officially announced his departure from the Republicans, and into the hands of the Socialists. Many progressive Republicans and even some Populists followed. While most were in the urban working class districts, some came from the rural areas, like Democrat-turned-Populist-turned-Socialist Edward M. House of Texas.
La Follette promised to continue his policies of "National Governance", regardless if the White House would like or accept it.
1890 Lodge Bill Timeline:
1892 Presidential and Congressional elections
1894 Congress/1896 general elections
1898 Congress/1900 general election
1902 Congress/1904 general elections
*John Calhoun Bell biography
1906 Congressional elections
1908 General Elections
1910 Congress/1912 general election
1914 House elections
1916 General Elections
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Between that and Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton, I'd say everything's permitted in the world of Canadian nicknaming.
How did you make the wikipedia looking election map? (nice candidate lineup by the way)
1962 federal election from RBP. Diefenbaker's second term goes rather predictably, but by summer 1961 he is engaged in a very public blood feud with Sauvé over Quebec's constitutional demands and the premier's intense irritation with what he sees as a "FUBAR" federal government. The Quebec MPs were utterly dependent on Unionist protection, or as Sauvé famously put it, "I've got them by the balls, question is who gets cut." In October 1961 Sauvé and UN chief organizer J.D. Begin decided to cut loose 12 PC MPs they had elected in 1958. When Leslie Frost retired that fall he refused to accept multiple job offers from Diefenbaker, saying he wanted to spend his retirement with his wife. His successor John Robarts quickly renewed the alliance with Sauvé, who now sought to weaponize Ontarian public opinion against Diefenbaker. However both premiers did not want a Liberal government and knew they would have more leverage if Diefenbaker were retained. When the election was called in April, both premiers only partially mobilized their machines, which required Diefenbaker to rely disproportionately on his Western base. On June 18 Diefenbaker scraped another majority despite a massive swing and the loss of over 60 seats. Ontario returned 42 Tories, Quebec 38. After 2 Diefenbaker majorities, Mike Pearson announced his retirement from politics on election night.
Preferably down the stairs or out the window. Speaking as an aviation enthusiast.
I have this strange feeling that La Follette is going to fuck something up real bad. And what is he still doing in the House?
Well, I found the files for them here. Click to download the file, and the files that have "wiki-infobox_(1/2/3/4)-way" are the ones that create the wikipedia election template.
I find the word "dreamboat" inexplicably hilarious.
That they are.
Quebec 1964. The government had spent most of its energy implementing what was known as the Tripartite Bargain in education and healthcare. Most Church-run institutions would be either transferred to the secular private sector or cooperatives or replaced with public employees with a handful nationalized. These massive omnibus bills were passed in 1962, with the Quebec Hospital Insurance Plan (QHIP) born on January 1, 1964. To finance them income taxes were raised and the resource royalty regime significantly restructured, though the Caisse de Depot would not be created until after Sauvé left office. The Liberals had elected former interim leader René Hamel permanent leader in December 1960, but as during most of the 1950s effective opposition to the government would be extraparliamentary - with Radio Canada's René Lévesque its most prominent journalistic critic. Meanwhile Sauvé himself had not relented in his feud with Diefenbaker. In a May 1963 speech to the Ontario Legislature he reaffirmed the alliance with Robarts, cemented with a bilateral agreement on internal trade. Ottawa was seething with intrigue during that long, hot summer. Young PCs, Bay Street, younger Red Tories and right-wingers could all agree that Diefenbaker had to go if the party had any hope of winning the next election. New Liberal leader Mitchell Sharp was low-key and without charisma, a former bureaucrat who had only recently entered politics. As the Toronto Star's Val Sears wrote in mid-July, "after the roller-coaster ride on which Mr. Diefenbaker has taken us, many Canadians are looking for what Warren Harding once called a 'return to normalcy.' The Tories have not the faintest clue about policymaking or even regular public administration..." Brian Mulroney, then the UN-PC liaison, reported to Diefenbaker that a "strong majority" of Young PCs wanted a premier as the next leader. In Quebec City, Sauvé was making his own plans... at least publicly, only for the forthcoming budget. 2 days after the budget omnibus was given Royal Assent in March 1964, the Legislature was dissolved for an April election. Hamel's Liberals were prepared and expected to do better than 1960, though without illusions of victory. Election Night 1964 was almost a repeat of 1956: 75 Unionists, 19 Grits and the pro-UN independent Frank Hanley.
Failed in his Senate bid while Governor, but was too stubborn to stay out of office and came back into the House when it was getting very interesting.
Hint: Henry Clay.
Scott Brison's EOI infobox. A close friend and ally of Mat Sauvé since the late 1990s, Brison is the Tory finance and ACOA critic. If the Tories win government he will become Finance Minister and Minister Responsible for ACOA. In the Mazankowski and Prentice governments he served as Industry Minister.
Big thanks to CT for his help here. The 1964 PC leadership convention was long and brutish with an occasional ray of optimism. By opening day the field was led by two premiers: Manitoba's Duff Roblin and Quebec's Paul Sauvé, with most head counts giving Roblin a tiny lead. Delegates were split along ideological, regional and various other lines, and a large field did not help matters. Ontario's Robarts did not endorse anyone. Nova Scotia's Stanfield endorsed Sauvé, as did Defence Minister Douglas Harkness, while Justice Minister Davie Fulton remained neutral. At the Platform Committee it was Sauvé whose speech made headlines, but Roblin seemingly held a narrow lead through the first 4 ballots. On the fifth ballot, only 3 votes separated the frontrunners. Davie Fulton, eliminated, released his delegates. Party president Dalton Camp read the sixth ballot results to a silenced hall: Duff Roblin 1050, Paul Sauvé 1100. Maple Leaf Gardens erupted in thunderous applause as the Quebec premier, preternaturally calm as always, took the podium and shook hands with Roblin, Camp and Diefenbaker...
Meet Francisco Gloeckner, known for leading the Federal Republic of Central America through a bloody civil war against the communist guerrilas with an iron fist. Not particularly a pleasant guy.
After reluctantly resigning after the signing of a treaty intermediated by Mexico and the US that ended the civil war, Francisco packed and left for Cuba, a country not known for being a communist dictatorship ruled by Fidel Castro.
After reluctantly resigning after the signing of a treaty intermediated by Mexico and the US that ended the civil war, Francisco packed and left for Cuba, a country not known for being a communist dictatorship ruled by Fidel Castro.
Awesome infoboxes Rascallite, Francisco Gloeckner sounds like a brutal tyrant.
Big thanks to CT for his help here. The 1964 PC leadership convention was long and brutish with an occasional ray of optimism. By opening day the field was led by two premiers: Manitoba's Duff Roblin and Quebec's Paul Sauvé, with most head counts giving Roblin a tiny lead. Delegates were split along ideological, regional and various other lines, and a large field did not help matters. Ontario's Robarts did not endorse anyone. Nova Scotia's Stanfield endorsed Sauvé, as did Defence Minister Douglas Harkness, while Justice Minister Davie Fulton remained neutral. At the Platform Committee it was Sauvé whose speech made headlines, but Roblin seemingly held a narrow lead through the first 4 ballots. On the fifth ballot, only 3 votes separated the frontrunners. Davie Fulton, eliminated, released his delegates. Party president Dalton Camp read the sixth ballot results to a silenced hall: Duff Roblin 1050, Paul Sauvé 1100. Maple Leaf Gardens erupted in thunderous applause as the Quebec premier, preternaturally calm as always, took the podium and shook hands with Roblin, Camp and Diefenbaker...
Now this will be interesting!
There was little doubt that President Lowden would be re-elected: The economy was strong, the Republicans were united and the Democrats had become fractious and divided following their poor showing four years earlier. Lowden had made his name on the international stage by doing everything short of leaving the League of Nations, a move which was generally unpopular in the US but lost him much credibility elsewhere because of Lowden's isolationist moves. The Democrats had another bitterly divided Convention, going a dozen rounds between the equally flawed front runners (California's William Gibbs McAdoo and New York's Al Smith) before settling on a Dark Horse candidate in the form of the Ohio governor James Cox, who attempted to solve his party's division on Prohibition by selecting a "dry" running mate from Kentucky. While Cox ran an energetic campaign with the Party Establishment firmly behind him, Lowden won a landslide.
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