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773:. In the run-up to the 1921 Saskatchewan election, Premier Martin recruited him to provincial politics, bringing with him his strong farm support. Maharg did not run as a Liberal in the provincial election, but rather as the sole Independent Pro-Government candidate. Following the election, Martin appointed Maharg as Minister of Agriculture, with a seat in the
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807:. Speaking at a political meeting in 1923, Turner again stated that the episode showed the major defects in the party system. He acknowledged that Dunning was an admirable man, but stated that every time Dunning rose to speak in the Assembly, one could "visualize behind him the cogs, wheels, pistons and pinions of a menacing machine".
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Conservatives, three
Independent Conservatives, three Labour, three Nonpartisan, one Independent Labour, one Government, one Independent Nonpartisan, and one Independent Pro-government. It is not clear how many of the Independent candidates were affiliated to some degree with the co-ordinating committee chaired by Turner.
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Assembly faced the issue of alcohol prohibition, which had originally been introduced during the war. The government introduced a bill which would continue prohibition, with greater restrictions on the ability of pharmacists to issue prescriptions for alcohol, along with a provision for
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replied that while over two hundred men in the public service had already joined the military, the government had granted exemptions from military service for a number of men deemed necessary to the public service. Martin moved an amendment to Turner's motion, approving the government's policy. The
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Saskatoon City riding, Turner again topped the poll, coming in first of the five candidates, with 26% of the total votes cast. However, the Liberals won a landslide overall, taking forty-six of the sixty-three seats in the Assembly. The remaining seats were divided between seven Independents
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The 1921 election had one of the most confusing set of party labels in the province's history. The
Liberals had sixty candidates, for an Assembly with sixty-three seats. There were fifty-nine other candidates representing a variety of positions: thirty-five Independents, seven Progressives, four
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Saskatchewan soldiers in France and Belgium. He won by a resounding vote, coming in first, with almost half the total votes cast. The second member elected from France and Belgium was Captain
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in a by-election in 1929, to fill a vacancy on city council. He was re-elected in the regular election for the 1930–1931 term. He again topped the poll, this time in a field of ten candidates for five positions on council. One of the candidates he defeated was a rising young lawyer,
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best interest of the province as a whole; they cannot see why it should be necessary for a candidate to recognize a duty to a party as well as to his province. They believe that the time has come when the party system is a detriment to good government, if it were ever anything else.
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for the sessions of 1921 and 1922. However, by 1924 Turner was the leader of the opposition, the result of a complicated political falling-out between
Premier Martin and the Minister of Agriculture,
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a plebiscite on the issue. Turner spoke against the bill, arguing that it would be better to end prohibition. The bill nonetheless passed by a vote of 40 to 6, with Turner voting against the bill.
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prohibition in the first place. He argued that beer, at least, should be readily available in licensed premises, but was unsuccessful in seeking changes to the bill.
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and was working in a bank. In 1913, he began writing a humour column for
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