sentences:  He stood as a nationalist candidate in Terrebonne during the 1904 election, then in Saint-James during the 1911 election.In 1907, after a session of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec had ended, he came down from the press gallery to confront Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Minister of The Public Works, and future Premier of Quebec, on the Assembly floor.He was upset over an allegation the Minister supposedly made about him during the session, implicating him in an affair over a false telegram.