McCarthyite Candidates 1896
The McCarthyites were a short-lived anti-Catholic and anti-French-Canadian political movement which contested the 23 June 1896 federal election in Canada.
Dalton McCarthy was the only "McCarthyite" to win election, and the movement disbanded in 1898.
Read more about McCarthyite Candidates 1896: Formation and Political Platform, The 1896 Election, Post-election
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“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)