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     MONDAY “AUGUST 3, 1959, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Thoughts On Election 
     
    
   
   
    
     And Its Possibilities 
     
    
   
   
    
     Now that Her Majesty the Queen 
     
     and Prince Philip are safely back 
     
     at home after their Canadian Tour 
     
     during which millions of Canadians 
     
     had the opportynity and privilege 
     
     of attesting their love and devotion 
     
     to the Crown, it is appropriate that 
     
    
   
   
    
     |we turn our attention to the con- 
     
     ‘sideration of more prosaic but: 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘pevertheless, important questions 
     
     having to do with the management 
     
     of our local affairs. 
     
    

    
     And in view of the fact that ru- 
     
     mors persist that we are to have an 
     
     early provincial genera] election in 
     
     this province, it is fitting to consider 
     
     a possibility that could soon become 
     
     a reality. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From a ‘onatitinticnad’ standpoint, 
     
    
   
   
    
     there is no legal compulsion for an 
     
     election this year. The five-year 
     
     life expectancy of the present legis- 
     
     lature does not expire until May of 
     
     1960. Indeed, able constitutional 
     
     lawyers have argued that any Can- 
     
     adian provincial government could, 
     
     if it. were so minded, prolong its 
     
     tenure of office for a considerable 
     
     time after the expiration of the five- 
     
    
   
   
    
     year period. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Whether or not this be true, no — 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canadian government has ever at- 
     
    
   
   
    
     vempted to hold on to the reins of 
     
    
   
   
    
     power beyond five years. 
     
    

    
     Certainly, there is no reason why 
     
     the Matheson government in this 
     
     province should attempt to do so. 
     
     Only those politicians who fear the 
     
     verdict of the people ever hold to 
     
     power until the last moment. They 
     
     realize that, by doing so, they mere- 
     
    
   
   
    
     . ly make their defeat more certain, 
     
    
   
   
    
     but since they regard their defeat 
     
     as certain anyway, they feel they 
     
     have nothing to lose, and possibly 
     
     something to gain, in putting off the 
     
     day of decision as long as possible. 
     
    

    
     The situation is wholly different 
     
     as it affects the present provincial 
     
     government. It has been in power 
     
     during years in which the four At- 
     
     l.ntic provinces have endured trying 
     
    
   
   
    
     times and from which it has pmerg- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed_much more successfully than any. 
     
     of the three other - provinces. Only 
     
    
   
   
    
     P.E ole. Liberal Assooist ion 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ene serious problem confronts It at 
     
     present—that of assured and ade- 
     
     quate transportation facilities across 
     
     Northumberland Strait._-On this 
     
     question, Premier Matheson has en- 
     
     deared himself_to the thoughtful men 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘and women of this province by the 
     
    
   
   
    
     courageous one-man _ fight he _has 
     
     waged against the indifference, or 
     
    
   
   
    
     lat Jeast_the apathy, of the federal 
     
    
   
   
    
     ernment. 
     
    

    
     ' It is, therefore, ‘most significant 
     
     that our fedgal Conservative repre- 
     
     sentatives have not only pooh- 
     
     poohed all the Premier's suggest- 
     
     ions concerning transportation but 
     
     have continued to leave the people 
     
     of this province largely in the dark 
     
     respecting any improvement in our 
     
     transportation service. Why? 
     
    

    
     The reason, of course, is obvious. 
     
     Should the Premier decide to make 
     
     an election announcement soon— 
     
     and rumor has it that such an an- 
     
     nouncement may come at any time— 
     
     the federal government, anxious to 
     
     defeat our ‘provincial government 
     
     for purely selfish reasons, is almost 
     
     certain to make a grand stand gesture 
     
     by an announcement on our trans- 
     
    
   
   
    
     portation problems. That announce-. 
     
     ment may be a double-barrel one. It: 
     
     may ‘give details concerning the pro-i 
     
     posed new ferry and may also in-, 
     
    
   
   
    
     clude a carefully worded statement 
     
     on the causeway question. The pur- 
     
     pose, of course, wil] be to induce the 
     
     voters of this province to forget the 
     
     courageous efforts made over the 
     
     past year by Premier Matheson to 
     
     stir the federal government to some 
     
     action. 
     
    

    
     There is one consolation, however, 
     
     that the supporters of our provin- 
     
     cial government have. That is that the 
     
     day has gone when any politician, 
     
     even though he be of federal stature,: 
     
     can fool the voters of this province, 
     
     They are as-intelligent as he is. They 
     
     know they have a good government, 
     
     Not a perfect government, for per- 
     
     fection is not given to Man, but a 
     
     government which, all things con- 
     
     sidered, has served this province 
     
     and its people well. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     REPRINTED FROM THE EVENING PATRIOT 
     
     (Monday, August_3rd,_1959) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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