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Reform party

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Reformers (def. 1) as a political group.

See: Reformer(def. 1),Saddlebag party

Quotations

1833

When this singular affair is sifted, the country must see there is but little cause of triumph . . . and if the Reform party be silent, the partizans of Government should be still.

1887

Mr. Blake has been obliged by ill-health to withdraw . . . from the leadership of the Reform Party.

1946

It was partly by its (the western peninsula which was predominantly of American extraction) vote that in 1824 an Assembly was elected which contained a number of "reformers." The name was beginning to be used loosely for all who did not approve of things as they were, but was not yet a party label. The "reformers" of 1824 lacked cohesion and a platform: they formed only a loose opposition group, not an official opposition. Yet they were the fathers of the Reform party and through it of the Liberal party.