The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 2

3 STAR NIGHT A 2 THE TORONTO STAR Tael July 9 1974 uk rm run wcit nn ELECTION The Tory dilemma: Will West go wild? By ANTHONY WESTELL Star Ottawa editor The first question for Conservatives today la who will take over from RobertStanfield a three time loser as leader of the national party Tne second question is whether they still have a viable national party Conservative strength has slipped Ln the Atlantic provinces and been slashed in Ontario Despite Stan I dogged efforts the party has again been re jected by Quebec a The only region in which the Tories are popularg and gaining strength is in the on the prairies and in British Columbia where they have more than half of all their seats if Without question the western bloc win now want i to take over the party leadership and that is whatf must raise doubts about the national future of the Tories i Prairie Tories in particular tend to be rugged ig free enterprisers with their roots in rural and re source industries rather than manufacturing unsym pathetic to Quebec at odds with the the so called Red in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces Oil memories 6 So it is hard to see a western leader rising to I claim the confidence of his own party let alone of Quebec and the rest of the country Alberta premier Peter Lougheed is by far the best known Western Conservatives But even if he were ready to leave his own province where he is se cure and successful to try to pick up the pieces of the national Tory party could he be a popular success in Ontario and Quebec? After all the man who wants to charge the rest of Canada more for oil and gas and to make sure that gets a larger share of the jobs and industry now going to Ontario He also comes from a province with a small power base 19 seats which has been one of Stan problems as leader Another Alberta Tory is Jack Horner formerly one of John toughest cowboys in the Commons but now a political personality in his own right Even before the election Horner was talking pri i vately about breaking away from the Conservatives to form a new and more right wing party based in I the west but having national appeal He will be think ing about that again now and he will find Western opinion more receptive if it feels isolated by the Liberal victory in other parts of Canada The regular Conservatives may be able to head off Horner only by assuring him that he will have a good chance at the leadership when Stanfield steps down How about Ontario? Premier William Davis will look attractive to some although the failure of his famed Big Blue Machine to hold or add to the Conservative vote in this election will not improve his popularity among Tories in other provinces I He is however a politic'an of national stature whb is well regarded in Quebec which is virtually important i It is doubtful however if Davis really wants to Analysis leave Park and take a desperate gamble in i Ottawa A Quebec leader for the Tories seems out of the question There is no candidate and a rench speak ing Canadian might not be acceptable in the west The Atlantic region has had its turn with Stan field and neither Premier Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick nor Premier rank Moores of Newfound land looks strong enough to appeal to the rest of the i country The leader will not of course be the only casualty of this election The policies Stanfield has endorsed will come under sharp criticism particularly by western To ries who always thought he was too progressive and not sufficiently conservative The commitment to income and price controls was no doubt a major factor in the Tory defeat in the election and James Gillies chief lieutenant for economic affairs will get more than his fair share of the blame for that There may even be attempts in the Tory caucus to replace him as i finance critic The Conservative aides and organizers who have committed themselves to Stanfield will now begin to drift away and a new leader will need a new staff i and organization The outlook for the Tories in fact is bleak and 1 they will probably put off choosing a new leader for as long as say until in the hope that new talent will sprout in the Commons The future is equally dismal for the New Demo cratic Party which has been cut in half After the old Co operative Commonwealth ed eration was decimated in the 1958 election it was decided to make a new start with the NDP or a time things went reasonably well The New Demo I crats survived the Trudeaumania of 1968 and did 1 well in 1972 climbing to 31 members in the Com I mons NDP disaster In the last Parliament they held the balance of power and exerted more influence on government 1 policy than ever before They even seemed to be gaining support in Quebec But now or something close to it They 1 have lost their leverage in the Commons their leader David Lewis and some of their best MPs They are reduced to being an ineffective rump I or the time being at least the New Democrats I will probably turn their attentions to the provinces They hold Manitoba Saskatchewan and British Co lumbia and they have hopes of adding Ontario in the next election According to some of their strate I gists the easiest road to Ottawa leads through the 1 provincial although the results in British Columbia where there is a backlash against Pre nfer Dave Barrett seem to question even that I dream The NDP like the Tories will have to rethink 1 policy positions and find a new leader to represent their new image I Liberals sealed their victory winning 9 of 10 key ridings By JE SALLOT Star staff writer OTTAWA Defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Hugh Segal stood alone amid tattered of Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield and signs extolling the virtues of his plans for price and income 1 was a terrible nightto be a he said or two months Segal 24 a former Stanfield aidecampaigned for his leader and party in the key riding Of Ottawa Centre 7 But SegaL like almost all The Toronto Star One Yo4 Street Twente Onlaiw Hit 1U st qsusswton cates' Mcflcoy to ridcyt 10c ttP7 Setvrday to hoem 85c per wee (Teeftwee 367 21T2 CowMrv motor root wvtY 1 pw wx CKUWTCN CCU KStCfy 357 2111 357 279 HOME DflMSY METJO CNTO Ettost 42 32S5 West of Yooge 781 9316 Etobcoke 236 Scarrows 33 3)2 1 Nerri Tert Eef oi Yyje 490 5371 Noni York ci 78 1 5235 hOME CHftEJY AIUS Grace 4S 99ai Port 274 2547 TTMlg ACCOUNTS PKEV 4ME: 347 2050 Dopier 37231 WeM Ada 3e8 STAqogQSr 367 2345 ZXa opposition party candidates in key ridings across Cana da was defeated last night as Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Liberals were returned to power Ottawa Centre has been a Liberal riding for more than 32 years But the narrow 19 72 victory margin of Liberal lawyer Hugh Poulin made Segal and PC cam paign strategists think yes terday would be different But it Early in the campaign The Star identified 10 key ridings where the results from close races could point to the national trend In nine of the ten the Liberals won yesterday Perhaps the only bright spot for the New Democrat ic Party came in the Nova Scotia riding of Cape Breton East Richmond previously held by Donald Maclnnis a Conservative NDP candidate Andy Hogan a Roman Catholic priest and a scholarly economist and sociologist defeated Liberal George Wilson a 26 year old Glace Bay newscaster and Con servative Jim MacDougall Hogan a front runner from the start became the first Roman Catholic priest to be elected to Parliament STAYS LX OLD The riding of Nonhumber land Miramichi kept its 29 year old tradition of elect ing Liberals In fact the election of Liberal candidate Maurice Dionne 37 the riding as sociation president was an early indication that the Conservatives scoring the points they ex pected School principal Dionne succeeds retiring Liberal incumbent Percy Smith de feated Tory John Trevors who was expected to benefit from anti rench sentiments kindled by inde pendent Leonard Jones in neighboring and the Ray Lebreton a salesman Although Liberal organi zers never realized their ex pectations of a Social Credit wipe in Quebec their candidate in Charle voix riding Charles La pointe a former external affairs department vice consul to rance handily defeated incumbent Gilles Caouette son of Socred Leader Real Caouette THREE LOSSES The defeat of young Caouette wab one of only three losses suffered by So cial Credit which returns with 12 seats but as in Charlevoix the two other Socred losses were to the Liberals The Conservatives who had hoped for Quebec in roads with prominent candi dates saw one of their best rench Canadian advocates Marcel Masse a former L'nion Nationale provincial cabinet minister defeated in LabeHe Tory strategists said that if the solid Liberal vote was to crumble in as they one of the first signs would be in LabeHe Ontario and more parti I a 1 Metro Toronto proved the turning point for the Liberals who won seats in ridings such as the key contest of St Paul's where incumbent Tory Ron Atkey was defeated by Liberal John Roberts a farmer Tnrceau adviser The retirement cf long time Liberal backbencher Jimmy Walker in York Centre was another test of Liberal strength in Toronto Tories held high hopes with lawyer Barry Swadron The Liberals countered with former MP Bob Kaplan easily defeated in 1972 in Don Valley riding by PC finance critic Jim Gillies The Liberals won Kaplan is back in Parliament after an 18 month absence and Walker probably will bo come the next senator from Toronto Ottawa Centre a Liberal stronghold for more than 32 years under former cabinet now George Mcllraith was won in 1972 by unknown Liberal lawyer Hugh Poulin Poulin who faced tough competition from Tory lead er Robert aide Hugh Segal and New Dem ocrat Irving Greenberg in creased his 1972 victory margin at the expense largely of the NDP A national Liberal victory was assured further with the election of school board chairman Joseph lynn in Kitchener riding a seat party held in 1972 by 250 votes TWO KEY RIDINGS Tne Liberals delighted in Liberal victories in two key ridings west of the Lake head In Battle ford Kindersley Liberal Dr Mclsaac unseated Tory incumbent Norval Homer who won in 1972 by fewer than 399 votes And in British Burnaby Seymour riding the Liberal victory of broad caster Mark Raines over NDP incumbent Ed Nelson was typical of the New Democratic problems on the west coast photo by Oovs Griffin Mr flC Osk AW SSK ml A 'g DEEAT ED in his own York South riding David Lewis leader of the New Democratic Party rubs his head in perplexity as his wife Sophie stands beside him Lewis was beaten by Liberal Ursula Appoloni a freelance writer making her first campaign for office Lewis admitted he was sad but he appealed to liis supporters not to be is just one battle lost There are many more to he declared last night 85 more humid tomorrow Weather Dewssfi TvtSOn 51 S4 f3 78 88 6 69 71 43 42 71 91 7S 89 Y3 48 55 55 64 6) 61 £7 63 59 65 45 60 68 42 60 OuetO7 Seirt John Morctm Ci'rioleor SvOn YanrWn 47 48 or Dave Barrett of British might run eeling among party mili tants appears to favor Blakeney but Broadbent would start with an advan tage because of his seat in the Commons party mem bers say Broadbent 3 8 national chairman of the NDP cau cus told The Star it is to conclude he will be a challenger if Lewis again but there was a grim nass and despair Half an hour later David and Sophie Lewis said their last goodby shook the last hand and walked out to Dufierin St "Someone was going to' drive us said David Lewis hesitantly But the someone had dis appeared They waited quietly on the steps for sev eral minutes inally Michael Lewis emerged and drove the de feated candidate of York South back to his hotel yeskrday 70 71 57 68 47 71 67 62 70 76 4 80 81 85 45 83 87 82 83 94 88 45 tt Lewis was parliamentary leader until Douglas won his way back to the Commons in a by election The NDP' leader said it was not desirable or right for the party leader to be outsde Parliament The party's next regular biennial convention is the summer of 1975 Lewis re fused to speculate on wheth er convention date might be advanced fora leadership content 116 leading contender to succeed at least until a leadership conven tion is appeared to be Ed Broadbent who was re turned yesterday in Oshawa Whitby Broadbent who first entered the House of Com mons in 1963 unsuecessftfly ran aaainst Lewis for the leadership in 1971 Senior party officials have also speculated that one of the three western NDP Ed Schreyer cf Manitoba Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan Everyone has been specu lating for montns about when Lewis who happily celebrated his 65th birthday in the middle of the cam paign would be stepping aside But and certain ly not David Lewis had ex pected it to end this way He acknowledged later in the evening that Michael Bj'sIO Boston hew Yac A'rra Ttos 67 69 60 S9 Prince Rurpert Vancouver Victoria Jwoer Edmonton Caioarv Lemoridc Yeftowtcnife Prince Aliert Saaoon Reqina wr ioec Cnurcnili White River Earlton North Bev Mufti 3 Windsor London Trer Cn most cn Petawiw 53 54 48 37 Lewis says of loss Continued from page 1 tion of the moment which is not to be taken as a decision because I have no right to make anydecisicn on my own I have to dis cuss it with my colleagues and wiih the Lewis said he expected the caucus elect a Par liamentary leader as they d'd in 1963 after former leader Tommy Douglas was defeated A defeat steps down tsui ne empnasizea that the decision rests with Lewis and suggested Lewis could remain an effective leader outside Parliament while waiting for a by elec tion Lewis told reporters last night he was satisfied there were a 'number of suitable candidates to succeed him but he refused to sv which candidate he would favor or Lewis tne apparent end of nearly 40 years work for socialism came just one hour after the polls closed in Ontario st showed hm lagging far behind his Lib eral onrzm' nt Twenty minutes later he made his way through cheer ing suopnrte at e' ection night headquarters an' Du'ferin St to acknowledge h'S defeat He congratulated Mrs Appolloni and said there was apparently a mood throughout Ontario for a majority Liberal govern ment Moen foil rises i 'ist'e c'snrsrrtnirfliMcrs ONTARIO OUTLOOK Sunny skies and90 degree temperatures ever southern Ontario today with a slight chance of isolated thunder storms in afternoon Not quite as hot tomorrow but humid A few thunderstorms are expected along with a cooler air mass moving in OVERSEAS TeToeritvre 'ertitns a noon hrtv I eeriaricfi Meai Tlr 64 57 68 doudr: 86 4 oarTtv 'ixc A tie 57 61 63 55 clean Bir runarwrn 72 6L couey E' ftseb 78 54 Cairc 9 0 73 clear Cesafllirca SI 78 ouTfv Ccoertnaoefl 5 7 oa Du2ti 66 55 jrea 55 de? nc Ker 8L 77 6G oear Lemon 72 43 t'r tC 77 cear Mana 81 72 partly ziwifi 82 ing to' Prime Minister but she has gained a hus rierre iruaeau He insisted he had no regrets about defeating the government and forcing' the fateful elec tion And as they cheered him he passed them the torch: future of this coun try depends on people like you It depends on the work of our party It depends on the influence which our par ty will have on this Parlia ment and all Parliaments to come is not the last fight of the New Democratic As the television lights shone on him he began to sweat and assured them that it was sweat and not tears and a faithful sup porter elled worry Mr He thanked his wife So phie and she k'ssed him and they cheered and he ex plained "my wife says you may have lost a member Downstairs in the sanc tuary reserved for the Lew is family and their closest workers Michael Lewis looked like a man in shock Shortly after 10 pm a grim faced Stephen Lewis arrived He kissed his mother and silently shook hands with his father WENT UPSTAIRS David Lewis and Sophie went upstairs for the last time to face the television cameras just before mid room where victory had night The remnants of the seemed so certain 4 parly workers applauded few hours before northern Ontario a cool air mass from Hudson Bay in conflict with the hot air mass over southern Ontario will produce thunderstorms late today or tonight Some could be severe Tne cold air mass should bring cooler temperatures to the prov ince the rest of the week OTHER PROVINCES B'Wsh a few ihowert Alserta mostly ctoutfy scattered sftowers or thundershowers SaskatCMAan a few in wist wnnv In east hoisted tbur dennowen Manitooo marUy sunny When defeat hit David Lewis it hit with that spe cial cruelty of surprisfe He had no idea that he was losing until he arrived with his wife Sophie at the York South election head quarters set up by the New Democratic Party for what was supposed to be a victo ry party Wis son Michael was run ning the campaign in York had sounded little anx tv nknnf Vwl Cnnlh CHJUui wmie lamer uavia was cheering on the NDP troops across the country Michael had told them bluntly that things did not look good or the second i in a dozen years David Lewis might be going down to defeat in his own riding In just one hour it was all apparently the end of a long career that besan in 1936 when the young David Lewis became federal secretary of the old Co Operative Commonwealth ederation the forerunner of the NDP TORONTO ORECAST Sunny today with a high near' 90 More humid but slightly cooler tomorrow with chance of afternoon or evening thunderstorm Low tonight 65 to 70 High to morrow 85 POLLUTION INDEX The air pollution index at 8 am was 13 in Toronto 14 in Hamilton 23 in Sud bury 20 in Windsor and 34 in Welland Die index mea sures two of many pollu tants in the air Readings of 32 are regarded satis factory 58 hazardous to the health of some persons' TORONTO CALENDAR Sunrise 533 un Sunset 9U srr Hian vestreev 3 srv Lo verseroae a 3 am LcwteCerLS o7ar au75 High stree 1 sal was in 1734 135 Low since ISO was In 1U2 45 A year aja: 1r 87 Lo 73 Uamfall eq 7am nil Mean yesla cav 83 aoeve normeL about York South But in the afternoon during a half hour conversation he was confident GO CR think any doubt about York South' Things can go crazy But I think any But for David Lewis things did go crazy and it okay He acknowledged surprise and disapoointment He congratulated the victor in York South Ursula Appollo ni He issued a public warn 34 US POINTS A last hurrah for David Lewis? fa Maritimes mcHSy wltn hefourjdidnd doutfy seriocs US WEATHER fikefy along nortnem and tint al PadtiC coest Thindershcwers In ockies concern plains a i fro iwstern vat ev to Gu and MU tic of snewe fa New Enc 3 ai else whe Cool torewn northern mH cf Pacfi: coast states but ws ese vtera hish fturridity fatavre nbelf of 8 1 cloudy wcOW 7 7 68 Dartfy cloudy New Deini 99 84 clear Nice 79 70 clear Oslo 73 57 clear Paris "5 ze Jeer Pekmo 2 79 cloudy' Rome 79 72 dear Saigon 77 77 part lr cloudy Seoul 62 75 dazzle Sofia rin: Stockholm 59 59 partly cloudy Sydnev 5: 8 clear Te er 58 77 partly cloudy Tel Aviv 88 70 e'esr To'tvo 79 82 heze nis 81 lea Vienne 64 61 clear Warsaw 54 55 cloudy Rio de Janeiro 58 68 clear TEMPERATURES Lewin Hirt! 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