150 THE STORY OF THE U.F.O. 



Legislation through the Initiative and the 

 Referendum. 



10. To apply the principle of Proportional 

 Representation to our Electoral methods." 

 This platform, along with other statements of 

 principle and additional data, furnished a basis 

 for campaign activities. It should be noted 

 that not even yet did the farmers desire, nor did 

 they regard themselves as attempting to form a 

 new party, but rather as making an effort to 

 return a number of independent representatives 

 who would stand for the principles which they 

 enunciated, principles that were not merely 

 sectional but national in that they were in the 

 interests of all the people. 



In no case were the electors urged or advised 

 to place candidates in the field by the central 

 executive, Head Office giving assistance only 

 when requested to do so. Enthusiasm ran high 

 and by nomination day in sixty-four ridings 

 supporters of U.F.O. principles were in the field, 

 out of which forty-four were returned with large 

 majorities. Thus the U.F.O. representatives 

 were the most numerous of any one group in the 

 legislature, yet not numerous enough to form 

 and carry on a government by themselves. 



When the elected representatives assembled, 

 subsequent to election day, three alternatives 

 were discussed as possible courses for immediate 



