Fall of Houde

For the second time in a year, Camillien Houde, Montreal's booming Big-Bill- Thompsonish Mayor, went down to defeat last week. Canada's most famed Mayor has been a political firebrand for nearly ten years. A Conservative, he unexpectedly won a seat in the strongly Liberal division of Sainte-Marie, Montreal in 1923. Since then he has won the mayoralty and leadership of the Conservative Party in the Province. Last summer, trying for the provincial premiership, he overreached himself. After a bitter campaign in which he accused his opponents of everything from causing unemployment to attempting to assassinate him, he was soundly defeated by foxy old Premier Louis Alexandre Taschereau.

Last week even Montreal turned against Camillien Houde. Fernand Rinfret, a quiet, scholarly Liberal, onetime professor of journalism at the University of Montreal, was elected Mayor over the ebullient M. Houde on a platform whose chief plank seemed to be an effort to force Canadian National Railways to resume work on its new railway terminal at Montreal.

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