e retained that seat in the following
             six elections. Because Belleville was a growing manufacturing center,
             Bowell was an advocate of a tariff to protect Canadian manufactures from
             In the election of 1878 the Conservatives under Sir John A. Macdonald
             campaigned on the tariff issue and swept the Liberal government out of
             office. Two-thirds of Ontario's seats went to Conservatives, and
             Macdonalds's Cabinet included "respectable but humdrum contingent"
             of Ontario ministers and among them was Bowell. (Hutchinson. 1964)
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