The Standard
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issued: 2016-08-24
issued: 1916-08-05
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note: fl 'Here shall the Press the people's rights maintain, Unawed by interest and un- bribed by gain." $mir King an& (Country Vol. V, No. 14���Established 1911 VANCOUVER. B.C.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 1916 Price Five Cents The Welch Leek Decorates Last Conservative Convention The Plugging Conspiracy against the School Board Investigation and Vancouver Patronage Committee COMMENT on the Conservative convention in Vancouver has been most instructive, It lias chiefly been one of comparison. "Behold our chaste"���and chas- tencd���"premier who threw all his influence into the scale for a new convention in order to give those Conservatives who criticised his policies an opportunity to choose new representatives. Have the wicked, vote-stealing Liberals done the same? Nay'. They fear such a convention. The machine has selected the men to run and those men must; run whether the Liberal party as a whole wants [hem or not?" That summarises the comment of the partisan. He cannot rid himself of his prejudices, lie reads into a convention which was necessary, a sermon which has no re- latioii at all to facts, and ascribe.-, I i self-righteousness an attitude which was entirely due to the pressure oi circumstances. The Conservative convention was necessary in order to advertise the premier as the unanimously chosen leader, and also gel rid of one whose actions as head of the Conservative patronage committee in Vancouver, and purchaser of supplies on the school board, had put the nobse round the neck of the Conservative party. It was absolutely necessary to eliminate .Mr. Welch and send him off to England to lake up some other collection than thai of patronage. It was simplest to put in his place the Honorable Dentist McGuire, whose previous retirement had been an error in bridge work. Before the school hoard inquiry, the Conservatives probably had determined to drop Mr. Thomas Duke, whose relations to the Traders' Trust concern had been so keenly criticised by Judge Grant. But, finally, …
note: Titled "The Greater Vancouver Chinook" from 1912-05-18 to 1915-05-01, for 1915-05-15, and from 1915-06-05 to 1915-09-11; "The British Columbia Chinook" for dates 1915-05-09, 1915-05-22, and 1915-05-29; "The Saturday Chinook" from 1915-09-18 to 1916-04-15; and "The Standard" from 1916-04-22 onward. Published by Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited from 1912-05-18 to 1916-01-01; Chinook Printing House from 1916-01-08 to 1916-04-15; The Standard Printers from 1916-04-22 to 1917-04-07; and The Standard Company from 1917-04-14 onward.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0315531
language: English
lat: 49.2611110
long: -123.1138890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Standard Printers
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text