Motorists nonetheless had defenders at Queen's Park, including CCM's Tommy Russell, elected to the provincial Parliament in 1908 while he was also OML president. MPP E.B. Ryckman grumbled about the farmer who refused to get out of the Way "who consigned you to the ditch, who laughed and jeered at you, who gave you the merry ho ho." When the Province of Prince Edward Island instituted a ban on motorcars in 1909 (although there were only ten cars at the time), Ryckman called on OML members to boycott the province on their summer excursions. At its 1909 meeting, the OML, bending to public hostility, nonetheless updated its traditional slogan calling for good roads by adding the phrase "and sane use of them."

— Wheeling Through Toronto by Albert Koehl (Page 78)