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OCR: IN AND OUT OF POWER In 1920 Meighen became PM and the next year campaigned against Mackenzie King on the need to revive the National Policy 01 high tariffs .Meighen and his Conservatives were deeply unpopular and he alienated the Prog ressive Party bi calling them the "dilapidated annex to the Liberal Party Meighen fought with a righteousness thai compared badly with King 's skill a straddling contentious issues Meighen C Conservatives lost opposition the election Meighen winning clung only to the 50 seats ruinous In THP OF policy 0 high tariffs, despite King S. success in calling for freer (not free' trade, and aliena ted the Progressive Party even further by ridiculing their demand for parliamentary reform BIOGRAPHY of that itives