| <tab>Hervey’s original training had been in part military, and he had served his country of birth as a sergeant, 1898-1899, in the Spanish-American War. In the Canadian Army in World War I he saw active service overseas, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He was awarded the DSO, and mentioned three times in dispatches. | <tab>Hervey’s original training had been in part military, and he had served his country of birth as a sergeant, 1898-1899, in the Spanish-American War. In the Canadian Army in World War I he saw active service overseas, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He was awarded the DSO, and mentioned three times in dispatches. |
| <tab>He twice ran for MP in the Glengarry-Stormont constituency. In the federal by-election of 27 Oct. 1919, entering the campaign late, he ran as an Independent Conservative against J.W. Kennedy, the candidate of the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO), who was elected. In a campaign statement, Hervey stated, “I built the Glengarry-Stormont railway before the war and was actively engaged in the establishment of industries in these counties when, unfortunately, my activities were interrupted by the war, in which I served in France until April 1919.” (//Glengarry News// 17 Oct. 1919 ) //The Farmers’ Sun//, which was once the newspaper of the Patrons of Industry and was now the organ of the UFO, at this stage seldom noticed GC affairs, but it rediscovered the county (5 Nov. 1919) with a bitter retrospect on the campaign: “In Glengarry, General Hervey studiously avoided the Unionist label as if it were a plague and posed as an [I]ndependent Conservative. He received quite strong backing in the towns, which included the support of many Liberals, irate at the enforced absence of a candidate of their own. Every effort was made to stir up feeling in the towns and villages against the farmers, and Cornwall, which is normally Liberal, gave the Independent Conservative 1,400 odd majority. But Mr. Kennedy had a comfortable majority of at least 1,600, and if he lives up to his reputation, ought to be an acquisition to the House.” At this distance of time, and given the long-standing Ontario practice of generally excluding from print any notice of anti-farmer feeling among the townsfolk, it is hard to guess what degree of truth there may have been in this harsh, uncompromising charge of anti-farmer bias. At any rate, whether the urbanites were incited against the farmers of not, Harkness comments that the poll results showed a rural versus urban split. Morover, with regard to anti-farmer feeling at this time generally rather than in any particular constituency, it may be mentioned that O. D. Skelton (who had Cornwall connections; see W. C. Clark) about the beginning of 1919 had written in a private letter that “I have been astounded by the violence of anti-farmer sentiment even among educated city people.” So much had public opinion been affected by the wartime turmoil and tensions. | <tab>He twice ran for MP in the Glengarry-Stormont constituency. In the federal by-election of 27 Oct. 1919, entering the campaign late, he ran as an Independent Conservative against J.W. Kennedy, the candidate of the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO), who was elected. In a campaign statement, Hervey stated, “I built the Glengarry-Stormont railway before the war and was actively engaged in the establishment of industries in these counties when, unfortunately, my activities were interrupted by the war, in which I served in France until April 1919.” (//Glengarry News// 17 Oct. 1919 ) //The Farmers’ Sun//, which was once the newspaper of the Patrons of Industry and was now the organ of the UFO, at this stage seldom noticed GC affairs, but it rediscovered the county (5 Nov. 1919) with a bitter retrospect on the campaign: “In Glengarry, General Hervey studiously avoided the Unionist label as if it were a plague and posed as an [I]ndependent Conservative. He received quite strong backing in the towns, which included the support of many Liberals, irate at the enforced absence of a candidate of their own. Every effort was made to stir up feeling in the towns and villages against the farmers, and Cornwall, which is normally Liberal, gave the Independent Conservative 1,400 odd majority. But Mr. Kennedy had a comfortable majority of at least 1,600, and if he lives up to his reputation, ought to be an acquisition to the House.” At this distance of time, and given the long-standing Ontario practice of generally excluding from print any notice of anti-farmer feeling among the townsfolk, it is hard to guess what degree of truth there may have been in this harsh, uncompromising charge of anti-farmer bias. At any rate, whether the urbanites were incited against the farmers of not, Harkness comments that the poll results showed a rural versus urban split. Morover, with regard to anti-farmer feeling at this time generally rather than in any particular constituency, it may be mentioned that O. D. Skelton (who had Cornwall connections; see [[clark_william_clifford|W. C. Clark]]) about the beginning of 1919 had written in a private letter that “I have been astounded by the violence of anti-farmer sentiment even among educated city people.” So much had public opinion been affected by the wartime turmoil and tensions. |
| <tab>In the federal general election of 6 Dec. 1921 Hervey was the Conservative candidate, running against J.W. Kennedy, who was the Progressive candidate and who was elected, and J.E. Chevrier, of Cornwall, the Liberal candidate. | <tab>In the federal general election of 6 Dec. 1921 Hervey was the Conservative candidate, running against J.W. Kennedy, who was the Progressive candidate and who was elected, and J.E. Chevrier, of Cornwall, the Liberal candidate. |
