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Reform party Hist. 
Reformers (def. 1) as a political group.
See also: Reformer (def. 1) Saddlebag party
- 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.
- 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.