Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free june 1968 Federal election takes sack seat in Rural by Stan Mcdowell Quebec City Rural at the approach of the last full week of the people Are talking about the dry followed by too troubles in the United states and about anything but the Federal election june you have to Force them onto the and then they dont say said a French speaking reporter who had just finished a tour of the county in which he grew in his county and in most of the others in the have come to the same the silence on the subject is and disquieting enough to set off rumours in All directions real Caouette Raillie ment Des credit stes is on the verge of a big the conserva Tives Are going to make drama tic the liberals Are going to take 65 any of these things could without any great swing in Public support it would not be impossible for the credit stes to pick up three seats where they lost narrowly last time for a total of if the conservatives could hold what they pick up the Montreal Ridings where they have outstanding like Guy Dozois in running against Liberal Light and take teetering Small town and Rural Ridings like Shefford Back from the they could easily put together the 20 seats they Hope but it would be equally possible for the liberals to Force the cred fistes Back to their four Northern strongholds of a Tiibi and Knock off a few vulnerable conservatives like martial Asselin in Charle grab the two formerly Independent seats of trois rivieras and and come out with 65 of the provinces 74 but unless the silent Electo rate knows something it is not the strongest probability is Little Overall after the flurry of excitement aroused by the conservatives Fielding the most prestigious team of candidates in a Genera Tion or there has been no real evidence of any significant swing in their they should be Able to take Juliette from the on the simple strength of they have a better than even Chance at Shefford and where the Liberal Edge from 1965 is they Are generally expected to gain at least a seat or two in but the liberals have a Strong Chance of taking Charier void from the their prospects in Hyacinthe have improved since Maurice Sauve entered the race against Theogene whose position was weakened Howard Grafftey is still expected to hold missis quoi for the but he is Vulner his margin of support was narrowed by and prime minister Trudeau popularity might make inroads into the Large English speaking minority that has voted for Grafftey in the the liberals can also count on unless Dis Aster Tion puts them ahead of on in port neuf and in neither Riding is the credit site movement dead except in real Caouette has been generally drawing bigger crowds and stir ring up More visible support than any other he has not come close to Matching the excitement of the 1962 and 1963 but there is definitely More interest in him now than there was two or three weeks mainly on the basis the most com Mon expectation at this stage is that he will make no Overall i gains above the nine he won in 1965 and quite possibly drop a seat or but the Campaign is not the nip is in better striking Range than Ever before to take its first Quebec Leader Robert running in Duvernay against Eric has the support of Kierans Friend Rene Well As that of the Union Kierans and Leves who worked off their surplus competitive Energy playing Squash together when they were on the same Provin Cial Liberal now face one another As ruthless opponents in politics but As friends for Duvernay is Liberal territory on Kierans should be the but cliche is extremely has been working hard in the Riding and has the Advant age of being a French Canadian in a Riding that is 95 per cent French other nip possibilities Are in notre Dame de Grace and Laurier Lapierre in or Gifford is the stronger of the but has Trudeau popularity against Trudeau reception in Quebec City saturday May give some indication of the trend in Public opinion that has so far kept out of but in 1965 John Diefenbaker Drew a better crowd Here than prime minister As he did in in spite of the Liberal gains that were to this so the most common feeling is that anything could happen in Quebec but nothing much British Columbia maritime Ontario 1 indecision of voters noticed at West coast by Terry Hammond Vancouver special there is a growing feeling Here that considering the advanced stage of the fed eral election Campaign there is an uncommonly Large number of British Colum Bias undecided How they will vote june canvassers for All parties report getting the Type of politely curious reception i their Doort door Calls that in previous times had Dis appeared before voting Day was this said a Veteran Liberal constituency worker this t h e householders seem like a theatre Audi ence at an Avant Garde play the curtain has gone up but they dont quite under stand whats going on and there not sure if they like it or an nip said it reminded him of a time in his youth in Saskatchewan when unseasonable Rains brought the water up to the lip of an irrigation dam not far from his for three Days we we rent sure whether it was just going to trickle Over the top or whether the dam was going to some of us Are getting that Reading there is Ontario 2 there is a tension As though something big might happen but wont necessarily Hap not just the people work ing the Doort door can Vasses have noticed Stuart a sort of elder statesman among tories although he is Only 48 years remarked on it a few Days my for the old Riding of Okanagan Revelstoke from 1958 until he retired in said normally when you Are this close to voting Day one or two issues clearly caught Public but not this people by and keeping then own they Are still in the process of making up their what is causing the indecision one opinion is that the electorate is just Plain con fused by the Lack of the traditional materialistic party in the said one tory it was your Man would Promise a Post office and their Man a All you had to decide was whether you wanted a Bridge or a Post without these simple or at least positive party leaders picking up Pace by Munro Toronto special glad to be out of the television prime minister conservative Leader Robert Stanfield and nip Leader Douglas rushed to the vote Rich Golden Horseshoe country of Ontario this week As time becomes Short before the june 25 general each of the three party leaders campaigned hard in a prelude to their Windup performances in Toronto next Stanfield made his first Campaign foray into Toronto last monday eve Ning after a Day of soliciting votes in the Kitchener and Waterloo Ridings 60 Miles West of the metro while he attracted Large crowds in two Toronto he failed to stir up the enthusiasm and bedlam that Trudeau received in his two Toronto but the tories defended their Leader by saying that it was the teenagers who were making All the fuss Over and they cant it that the tories have a stiff Uphill struggle in metro Toronto party strategists admit that even National party presi Dalton is in trouble in Don where his Liberal Robert is running a Tough and expensive Cam there is a greater de Gree of Trudeau mania in Don Valley than any other Riding in Norman Camps brother inlaw and Campaign Man Ager conceded last we Are going to but still the that Camp and two other tories will win in not so but Hope they say they might get another six tories from toe Toronto area into Parlia Wallace who resigned his Senate seat to run in the new Riding of York is expected to conservatives also expect Earl president of american to take Peel they think Barry chairman of the metro Toronto school has an excellent Chance of Tak ing Pauls Riding away from Liberal Ian the conservatives Are also hopeful in Etobicoke where Arthur a former executive assistant to Donald Fleming when he was finance is making his first attempt to Onva Douglas campaigned in the Strong Union centres of Oshawa and Hamilton this in Douglas was ordered out of steel company of can Ada a directive he refused to accept until he got As much press coverage As he thought he could the nip Hopes to win two Ridings in in they Hope to unseat conservative Michael who is running in a new Riding that is mainly populated by Union Trudeau swing through burling Hamilton and Catharines will be followed by a Mammoth rally next wednesday in Toronto City Hall which can accommodate p e r Stanfield will end his Toronto Campaign on Mon Day with a rally at the Canadian National exhibition Douglas will not hold a rally in by different the Man went voters believe they Are going to have to choose purely on the basis of personalities and they say to themselves what a hell of a Way to run a country and hold off Mak ing up their but he went they reconcile themselves to having their emotions make up their minds for this tory didst believe that in a contest of personalities the necessarily the Man whose pre sence creates the wildest a quiet Man like Stan Field draws quiet Admira he certainly whatever admiration Stanfield Drew in this week has been some 200 people were on hand for his arrival at Vancouver International Airport when he arrived at 11 a Mere 700 showed for a rally in a City Park and a Little Over 100 were on hand when he visited the City Hall of Vancouver nextdoor municipal new his biggest crowd was about which showed up for a hot dog party in a City tories Felt his greatest Triumph Here was a one live and unrehearsed television appearance he made on a local but to buffs Point out that with to channels to compete the Audi ence could not have been Trudeau arrives in Vancouver sunday night for a one Day helicopter Blitz of the lower Mainland and and perhaps by the time he has left the nip worker from Saskatchewan will know whether the water will just trickle away or the dam will politicians concentrate on key constituencies provincial party support lacking by Sheila Urquhart Halifax special less than two weeks Are left for campaigning and both major parties Are concentrating their fire and their big names in key constituencies where the fights Are liable to be prime minister Trudeau visited Cape Breton High lands Canso where health minister Allan Maceachern is running scared so scared he has made very few forays outside the Riding to help other Nova Scotia the conservatives Are also fighting hard in Cape Breton Highlands they Hope to stage a spectacular rally with conservative Leader Robert Stanfield this week to build up a sufficient momentum to put their candidate communications Hugh into to Date the liberals in the seat have not brought up the question of Gillis eligibility to run which was a big Issue in 1965 when he lost by 58 votes to Liberal John Stewart in the old Antigonish Guysboro the second biggest fight is in Dartmouth Halifax East where conservative Mike faces rough sledding from former brewery executive Arnold this is the traditionally Liberal Section of the old Halifax constituency and on the basis of Saskatchewan 1965 the liberals would win by about 200 both Stanfield and conservative George Hees Are scheduled to be in Dartmouth next the other fight is in South Western Nova where conservative Louis a 27yearold physics professor is battling it out with the former Mem Ber for Antigonish Guys the prime minister ran into a bit of heckling when he visited the Riding about 10 Days ago and Stewart suffers from that he was parachuted into the Riding by the party nevertheless Hes a Strong so for Nova Scotia it looks like an absolute minimum of eight out of 11 conservative conservatives have a definite Lead in South Western the Dart Mouth situation is anybody guess and Maceachen appears to have a slim Prince Edward Island four tories in Likely three this time Melville brother of Prince Edward islands is tack Ling conservative David in egmont but Macdonald is generally considered to been a fairly effective my and Hes Likely to hold in Newfoundland conservatives Are growing More optimistic every Day and they now talk of winning at least three seats and possibly of the seven they consider Johns East and Bonavist Atrinity sure they also think Knock off acting fisheries minister Charles Granger in Gander Twillingate and have a Chance of beating Richard Cashin in Johns most observers give them the first two seats and some chances at the other so its Likely five two for the liberals in newfound no change is anticipated in any of new Brunswick 10 the liberals now hold six to the tories so the maritime will generally stick with their own Robert they Likely will take some thing in the Vicinity of 18 to 22 of the 32 seats in the Atlantic the other regional benefits the tories most because theres a feeling that for 11 years a local is liable to have a better awareness of regional difficulties than and although the crowds turning out for the prime minister have been sizeable he has run into heckling and it Doest look like too Many mar timers will be moved to turn Liberal and vote against one of their own Trudeau mania puzzles Veteran political figures by Peter Jackman Ottawa special the key to conservative Hopes in Ontario had to be the massive support of the provincial it was promised by Premier Robarts when the Campaign began but so far it has not materialized in anywhere near the degree party workers and Candi dates were counting the provincial legislature has been kept sitting Over time through the Federal Campaign because of the record volume of legislation and Only a few months out of their own provincial Haven been particularly eager to plunge into the Federal the Best evidence of this has been the two Campaign appearances of conservative Leader Stanfield in Eastern Ontario which has almost solid tory representation in the Only Don the member for Ottawa was present for the National leaders speech at Dick Bells nomination meeting and the Cabinet minister from the Irwin sent a message that he get away from official duties at Queens in which comprises portions of the Ridings of two provincial Cabinet min Only James the minister for was on hand for Sta Fields Brockville highways minister Gomme want there and Hast been Able to do any major campaigning either in Leeds or Lanark and Ren Frew which both overlap his until this most recent redistribution Many Eastern Ontario Ridings shared the same Federal and provincial boundaries and a common Federal provincial Assoc a despite this and it is one of the paradoxes of Eastern Ontario politics most of them sent a Liberal to parliament and a tory to Queens there has always been some evidence of non aggression pacts Between the local members to keep out of each others campaigns beyond a few sym Bolic plus the coolness of the provincial party toward the National association Dur ing the last half of the Diefenbaker left Many local tories flounder ing without the help and resources which the Provin Cial members could bring to past but this was supposed to be changed for this Cam Stanfield had Strong support from members of the Ontario legislature Dur ing his Campaign for the leadership Robarts was pledging support and brought him to Toronto for a meeting and reception with the caucus and Provin Cial president Elmer Bell took Over the Ontario Cam it was part of the re organization of the party under Stanfield that gave the direction of the Campaign in the various provinces to provincial organizations and reduced of Tawas in return for this re the provincial association was counted on to throw its full weight into the Federal in Many places there still waiting to feel Trudeau by Mary Fitzgerald Regina special Trudeau mania gripped Saskatchewan monday and left conservatives and the new democratic party members puzzling Over what its going to mean at the polls june the prime minister swung into several Southern constituencies in his Campaign debut in Saskatchewan and according to veterans of All Drew unprecedented political crowds along the at persons turned up at a rally and a similar number were on hand at the real Surprise came in when a crowd estimated at Between and turned out for a picnic rally at the cites largest Park to cheer and mob not even the liberals Are attempting to interpret those crowds in terms of we just cant read was the ultimate analysis of veterans of All amazed at the response Trudeau got in this conservative liberals Are most baffled at the fact that Trudeau Drew such warm and enthusiastic crowds in the heart of Canadas wheat land without adding to his agricultural program the wheat marketing clause provincial liberals have been pressing for both privately and Premier Ross Thatcher termed a new wheat marketing and Price policy Trudeau said it would be tempting to offer big but he made it Clear he would Likely go to the polls without any change in his agricultural liberals say this could Hurt them in Rural areas and conservatives and new democrats readily but they claim that Trudeau can Only help them in Urban some conserva Tives and new democrats admit the crowds the prime minister Drew made them a Little lets face those people be there unless they were interested in Trudeau and considering one nip campaigner some to ranking c o n Serva Tives Are privately admitting they Are in trouble in up to t h r e e of the 13 Federal con the consensus seems to be that tory strength is waning and the liberals and the new democrats Are trying to Cash adding strength to this theory is the fact that John Diefenbaker is com ing out of his Prince Albert Riding for the first time in the Campaign in what some conservatives is an attempt to Shore up their Diefenbaker and party Leader Robert Stanfield were to join forces for the first time in the Campaign at Saska Toon the nip was bringing party Douglas into Northern Ridings late in the in an attempt to Herd their provincial strength into the Federal at the end of this the Saskatchewan vote still appeared Trudeau and Douglas will be Back in the province again before june 25 to try to consolidate m Stanfield is making his last Campaign swing Here this Manitoba leaders provide life in Campaign by Derik Hodgson the week that started last sunday night As a mass provincial yawning in front of television sets whipped suddenly into a six Day period of political Fervour with All three National leaders making Manitoba prune minister Trudeau stumped the Western portion of the province Early in the speaking in Portage la Prairie tuesday he took a couple of Swift jabs at the Quebec he came close to disavowing any historic rights for either French or English the prime minister said i dont believe its because of any historic right that French and English Are the official he called languages Only the two an instr Alberta Liberal plans fizzle out by Dave Humphreys Calgary staff when it comes to and keeping a stiff upper Southern Alberta liberals deserve a for they spent More than a month trying to work out a suitable itinerary for the visit of prime minister Trudeau to Calgary and other determined to Cash in on Trudeau mania which was at its Peak when the Alberta Liberal Campaign committee was initially planning the they tentatively booked both the Calgary Stampede Capa City and the grandstand should it capacity for a nighttime the likes of which the City had never seen but these and other grandiose plans fizzled Early this week when Campaign chairman Sena Tor Earl Hastings of Calgary announced Trudeau would spend Only 13 and half hours in the Southern part of the province and that Only four of these would be political instead of the Calgary shaking evening the prime minis Ter will be present at a Short Coffee party rally in the Stampede grounds tuesday morning at which organizers expect about Only other Opportunity Calgary ians will have to see the prime minister will be his lat night arrival at the Airport monday and his departure for Medicine hat a Little before Liberal organizers hoped their Leader would be Able to get out into Rural areas where the party is clearly but All hell have time for under the new itinerary will be a picnic at Medicine hat before flying to Saskatoon at and from candidate to Humble Are disappointed that the province a conservative stronghold is getting such scant attention for the Man who put the party Back on the Are outspoken about their common Are such comments As of in but the prime ministers Busy or perhaps he thinks things Are going so Well in Alberta he Doest need to spend much time but behind the stiff upper lip Are rumblings of first there was the trouble of working out an itinerary for Trudeau who seemed to Knock them Down As soon As the provincial Campaign Organiza Tion presented and then there was the news of the Short Hastings says the four hours Are equitable with five spent at the beginning of june in the North and that the visit will have the desired during a visit to Calgary May consumer affairs minister John Turner predicted Trudeau mania would spread from the cities to the so far it and some Liberal Candi dates Are quietly feeling in Rural where there is generally an older population than the is that Trudeau Liberal Hij inks and emotional pleas merely insult the a few candidates who tried to stir things up in Rural areas Are to forget that part of the Campaign and get on with presenting the mature in the country liberals Are giving their efforts an extra spurt to combat the conserva Tive or social credit and in one or two cases such As which is half half including part of Calgary and d Drumheller Treyve found a Large uncommitted vote which could swing the seat to the liberals or at least give the conservatives a hectic run for their the uncommitted a Are mainly social creditors who dont have their own some Are automatically switch ing to the but both major parties agree the biggest portion Haven made up their minds yet and this is the group liberals Are trying to swing away from their natural inclination to vote or to just stay at ment of Trudeau literally skimmed the grasslands and the treetops of Western Manitoba As he blitzed four the if not exuberant and Overly tru were plentiful and new democratic party Leader Douglas Stop Ped at Winnipeg International Airport Long enough to say that four to six seats in parliament should be set aside exclusively for indians and Douglas recommended the establishment of a Crown corporation to handle the business affairs of the nations Indian res the nip chieftain also promised that his party would give the native popu lations Complete control Over their own conservative Leader Rob Ert Stanfield was to stump Western and Northern Mani Toba on on the Winnipeg Home front the Battle zone was relatively free from verbal transport minister Paul Hellyer told a jammed Curling club gathering that he was convinced Well keep in Winnipeg a Basic maintenance facility for air the Fate of the Winnipeg overhaul base is one of the prime local the same Day that Hellyer was speaking to a rally on behalf of Winnipeg South Centre Liberal Candi Date Winnipeg South conservative Candi Date Bud Sherman said he would stake my Job on the overhaul base reports indicate that thei base Here will be phased out and Dorval will become the Centre for air Canada Over ;