the Premier's
buggy, and the _Farmers' Sun_ tried to change the wheels on his rig so
that he would not be able to get home. Worse than any the _Onlooker_,
that virile organ of no advertising and of the Meighen Government, said:

"The U.F.O. chose this man and dragged him out of his rural obscurity.
In common gratitude he should have stuck to their colours. He should
have given fair warning of a change of heart, and indeed we think he
ought to have resigned. When a man joins a political party he agrees
to subordinate his ambitions and activities to the common good of that
party, and failing to do so honour demands that he should leave it."

In spite of the fact that the Premier of Ontario twice made an
appointment by request from the writer of this for the purpose of
getting a statement for the press as to what he meant to do about this
whole business of "broadening out," twice failed to keep the
appointment and later came out with the Milverton pronunciamento, we
have no hesitation in pointing out that:

Mr. Drury was not in rural obscurity. The U.F.O. had no colours which
Mr. Drury had not helped to paint, for he was the first President the
U.F.O. ever had. He had no change of heart, because when he made an
unstable coalition of the U.F.O. and the Labour party he entered into a
pact and covenant which the U.F.O. had never considered; he had already
"broadened out" to drive Labour and Agriculture as a team and had
pretty well succeeded in doing it. Mr. Drury did not join a political
party. The U.F.O. was not a real party because it went into the
election of 1919 without a leader, and in order to get its platform
translated into party it had to have Mr. Drury or somebody like him.
And if Mr. Drury should resign from the head of the two groups which he
alone has made into the semblance of a party, he would be recommended
by Mr. Crerar to let his guardian take him to a lunatic asylum.

Drury has done much better than his critics expected he would do. He
has been bold enough to keep Adam Beck from being the unelected Premier
of Ontario, which is more than Sir William Hearst ever could do. He
has made Government cost more than it ever did, though it is only
reasonable bookkeeping to believe that part of the cost was incurred by
a Government over which he had no control. He has begun to build
public highways which being originally a farmer's job should have been
done well, but up to the present has been on a sm