The Best Man!

TO REPRESENT

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Queen's County in the Commons :

gain the “ Island vote, expressly | combination in Ottawa, he must as a ua-| These thoughts were ‘agreed that this Province should be re-| tural consequence be a protectionist. Now | mind as we peacefully re presented iu the Cabinet so long a8 they | 2) this is simply trash. Because a man | of the Argus.

remained in power, the appointment of ig supporter of the conservative party, it | temporaries are busying ours | Mr. Laird to the office of Governor of the | does not follow by any means that he need | an election. He is now so calm, so | Northwest Territories, without consulting be a protectionist, or what is worse,break | contained, so wholg of heart, that these

JAS. C. POPE

‘the people of the Island and without even} , written and published pledge given to | lesser matters disturb not his r | offering the vacancy to an Island member. | those whom he expects to elect him. |From the lofty pinnicie of cannot be otherwise regarded than as 2 | Neither does it follow that because a man | Printership he looks down, like tlie | gross insult and wrong to the electors of | is the avowed humble servant of the great | eaters who,—

Alexander, that the principles of Free)

The issue:

WILL WE'OR WILL WE NOT TAMELY SUBMIT TO BE UNJUSTLY DEPRIV- ED OF REPRESENTATION IN THE CABINET ? |

DO WE OR DO WE NOT APPROVE | THE ACTION OF THE DOMINION | GONERNMENT IN REMOVING MR. | LAIRD, AND NOT EVEN OFFER- | ING HIS VACANT SEAT TO A RE- PRESENTATIVE OF THIS VINCE ?

THIS IS THE SQUARE ISSUE NOW BE- } FORE THE PEOPLE OF QUEENS | COUNTY.

of $8000. Mr. himself the Collectorship of Halifax, at 4 salary of $3000. himself Judge of the Court of appeals of jottetown Grit organ makes to Mr. Pope, are apt to grow . Canada, at a salary of $7000. Mr. Laird 'in the present election contest, ia a fear | —that they get over anxiou bartered away the interests of the Province ,

oe William Ross took to

Mr. Fournier appointed

which he mis-represented in the Cabinet, for the Governorship of the Northwest, at a salary of $7000 a year.

As the Mackenzie Party, in order to

this Province, and a glaring breach of | faith with their representatives in Parlia- |

ment. If an avowed supporter of the

A SPECIMEN OF GRIT FREE TRADE.

THE principal objection that the Char-

that he is not for Free Trade. Though | Mr. Pope states just as distinctly as Mr. | Welsh does that he is a Free Trader, the Patriot thinks that because he isa con- servative, and opposes the present rottcn

Trade are going to be strictly observed by him. As before shown in this paper,

| For they he beside

AN EPICGRIAN PuiLOSOPHER,

. ‘ annie | Wr have often teared th ‘our people

think too much about politic: —that they

elections

too excited « ver ¢!

. . as mae see

It is, therefore, pleasing ** nes to see : Poe ale

that there are thas: wha ee" ise tems } .

selves above ti, Lihine ‘ 1 Lhe peace.

4 + | nhie ecoutemplation

ful calmne s of phile ype bCETN | : ; aslo trurmoil hanes

look down upon the littie turmoil bea awakened in our

We aod most of our con- selves about

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On the hills like god’s together, ca mankiud,

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Mackenzie Government be elected in the! the farmers arOdirectly taxed by the im- | Wer Below tees ta thn . idiys

ence that the Island condones the wrong which has beeu done her. Nor is it at all

PRO- coming contest, the fact will be accepted | port duties much more by the McKenzie ‘throughout the whole Dominion as evid- | G@oyorpment that they were by Sir Joba

MecDonald’s Government. But chat is

not all. The farmers, and people gener-

likely that any Government of Canada) gijy, are perhaps not aware that there are

PORT Hyaminer { will ever again yield a boon which the! pymerous systems of indirect taxation, ' i ly ve.

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Charlottetown, Nov. 6, 1876,

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people of this Province themselves, by | willingly surrendering, show that they do |

not prize. |

On the other hand, if an opponent of

THE MEETING THIS EVENING. | the Mackenzie Government—which has

s By advertisement in another column it

deprived us of representation in the Cabinet—be returned, the fact will de~

will be seen that a meeting is to be held | clare, in trampet tones, that the people of

in the Athenzeum this (Monday) evening, |

at eight o'clock, for the purpose of diss}

. i cussiug the important question “ Free |

We trust that be there |

Trade versus Protection.”

our free trade friends will

punctually and in full force. Every free | trader—and are we not all free traders ?— should be present. We regret that the ehampion free trader of this Province— the Hon. J. C. Pope—has an engagement at Wheatley River whieh will necessitate his absence. We trust, however, that Senator Haviland—whose thorough ac- quaintance with the manner in which the Mackenzie-Cauchon Government carry out free trade principles, will be invaluable— may be able to attend and give a complete exposition of the free trade principles and protectionist practices of Mackenzie, Cart-

wright, Cauchon & Co.

> —-_— ere. a THE MACKENZIE-CAUCHON GOY- ERNMENT.

Tue present Dominion Government— composed of Mr. Huntington, an avowed anpexationist of naany years profession, of Messrs. Blake and Mills, both ardent ad~ mirers of ‘‘ American Institutions ;’’ of M. Cauchon, whose ‘“‘ambition,”’ accord- ing to the Montreal Herald, a Ministerial organ, is to “ manipulate the most help- less of Gods creatures,” viz, the lunatics of Beauport, and whose “ crime,”’ accord- ing to the Toronto Globe, the Ministerial organ-io-chief, “is rank and smells to heaven” of Mr. McKenzie a dull but las borious official who is called “‘ Premier,” and of a few others whose names are less familiar and who ure, toa great extent, governed in their political actions by the author of the famous “ Big Push Letter’’ --the Hon. George Brown—is unworthy the confidence of the loyaland honest peo- ple of Queen’s County. The “ Big Push Letter,’’ in which Senator Simpson was asked by the real leader of the Grit Party, | only two or three days previous to the general election of 1873, to come down handsomely, as other ieading Grits had al-

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ready ‘“‘expended their strength,” has been denounced from the Bench bya Judge of one of the superior courts of Canada as | a letter written witl a ‘‘ corrupt motive,” | The bargain made with Senator Simpson | is ove of the grossest instances of corrups | tion on record. Senator Simpson, through | the Cashier, wrote to the Shareholders | and others doing business with the Bank | ot which he is President, and asked them |

to support the Mackenzie Party, because, it they did so, it would be a “ good thing for our Bank.” The Mackenzie Party received the support of Simpson and his stockholding friends, By their exertions and by ‘‘ coming down handsomely,” they secured the return of McKenzie and his corrupt colleagues. And now they are reaping their reward in the rich harvest obtained from the use of upwards of $600,000—tor which they pay no interest —deposited by the Dominion Government in their Bank. The purchase, by Mr. McKenzie of $2,000,000 worth of steel rails, through a firm in which his own brother was largely concerned—two or three years before they were required, and at £2 stg. more per ton thau the price at which they could afterwards be obtained, and the bribery ot the Speaker of the House of Commons by $3,000 worth of post office printing—in direct contraven- tion of law and political morality, —are acts of favouritism and corruption which call for the severe condemnation of all right thinking people.

But the corruption of the Mackenzie Party is fully equalled by its extravagance. Since they attained to power, they have increased the outlay under the Civil List alone upwards of $90,000 per year. Op- ponents who held office under the former Government have been superannuated by the score, at a heavy loss to the country, and friends of the Administration have been put in their places, at increased salaries. Numbers of cflices—even Judge- ships—have been given to Liberal Uons servatives in order to weaken the Oppesis tion which, by the incapacity, extrava- gance and corruption of the Government, has been raised throughout the country. One of the most notable instances of this is the recent elevation of Mr. Savary of Digby, Nova Scotia—-a vigorous opponent of the Grit Party—to the office of County Jadge. '

Nor are the corrupt and extravagant Ministers who “buy off” their oppo- nents wholesale, at the expense of the country, neglectful of their own personal interests. As opportunity offered, they, one by one, appropriated to themselves the moet honorable and lucrative offices in the gift of the Government. Mr. Dorion appointed himself Chief Justice 6f Quebec at a sulary of $6000 a year. Mr. D. A. McDonald appointed himself Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, at an annual salar

| pursuers,

this Province “know their rights and, knowing, dare maintainthem.’ It will show that the young men—the franchise voters — appreciate to the fullest extent the generosity of the Government which tried

‘its best to rob them of their rights and to

give them no more influence in the public affairs of the country than children and women. It will tell tothe world that the people of Queen’s County, at least, will not tolerate, in the Government of Canada, corruption so foul and glaring as that of the bargain with Senator Simpson’s Bank, or the bribery of the Speaker of the House of Commons.

If they elect Mr. Pope, they will elect u Strong, energetic and experienced man ; they will elect one who says what he means, and who, the people know full well, will not recede from a position he once takes ; they willelect a Free Trader who has pledged himself to use all his infiaence in obtaining—that great boon— Recipro- cal Free Trade with the United States; they will elect a representative who will stir up the “dry bones’ of the five Honorable members who have sat in the House of Commons during three Sessions of Parliament, saying little and doing less—and who will do more to regain the influence we have lost at Ottawa than any other man who could possibly be selected.

But if they elect Mr. Welsh, they will elect a very decent, plain, jolly, good man who was “born in Lot 49,” who “never handled a cent of Govs ernment money io his life,’ who would give some of his Captains (who were Lorn in Let 49) leave to draw upon him for all he is worth, if cargoes of sugar, tea or

the workings of which are kept hidden.

| stood that all goods required by the Govs |ernment Railway, no matter what their | cost, must be purchased in Canada. Only when articles cannot be found in Canada, | must they be purchased in the United States or elsewhere. This is a new style ,of protection. In order to appease, as ‘they think, the agricultural community,

| the Government of Purity bellow about |

| Free Trade principles ; and in order that | the few manufacturers who support the | Government may be stuffed, they proscribe outside manufacturers, totally regardless of what the loss, or rather the indirect taxation may be. A farmer may pay less for his sugar, tea, tobacco, ete., (in point of fact he pays more); but by an operation which is conducted in secret, supplies for all public works are confined in their purchase to Canada, and no mat- (ter whether such supplies cost the tax payers one, two, three, or even ten or more times what they can be procured at in the United States or other country, they must be purchased in Canada so long as Uanada can produce them.

A semi-Free Trade with which to hoodwink the tillers of the soil ! and, on the other hand, the funds of the Dominion secretly squandered to satisfy a few manu- facturers and dealers who support the Grit Party !!

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ECONOMY VS. FAVORITISM.

Tue form of tendering practised by the Pure Government is, we believe, ‘‘a mere |form.’’ With the object of gulling the people into the belief that everything necessary in the way of supplies is obtains ed at the lowest and most favorable tender price, tenders are called; aud, in some eases, for very small quantities. But, with few exceptions, it is utterly useless for those not blessed with the necessary influence at head quarters to attempt to

rum are to be purchased on good terms, who employs ‘clerks and officials’ to write his letters and even his Cards to electors, who feels and honestly says that he is not the ‘best man” to represent Belfast in the Local Govern- ment,and who wills that when he dies, his body may be carried on the shoulders of four gallant sailors to Lot 49, to be cov- ered by his mother earth—and that over him, aa an epitaph, shall be placed a plain stone bearing the simple and modest words,

WittiamM WELsuH, Born 1x Lor 49.

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CUTTLE FISH TACTICS.

A Correspondent of the Presbyterivan makes the following lively and apt re- | marks upon the tactics of the Patriot :— |

“« Naturalists say that the Cuttle fish when pursued emits a fluid which darkens the water around him, and hides himself from his |

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taken a lesson from this peculiar tish; he imagines if he can raise a cloud of dust about Protection and Free Trade, that his readers’ eyes will be blinded to the blunders of the MacKenzie-Cauchon combination. He calls the Government a Free Trade Government ; let us see what right he has they have to the name. One of their first acts was to take tea off the free list, and put a duty of 4 cents oa the pound, on Tobacco, they also put 25 cents per lb.; on Kerosene oil, 15 cents a gallon. They increased the general! tariff from 15 to 174 per cent, There is not an article that the poor man uses but they have increased the duty thereon. We will now see whether their other Acts will justify any man, who loves his Island home in support- ing the Government candidate at this Election. In the first place, taking the re- presentation in the Cabinet from the Island should arouse opposition to them in every patriotic and manly heart. If, on the other hand, we tamely submit to such tyranny and like slaves lick the hand that strikes us, we deserve our fate. If we now fawn on the Government by returning a supporter to the House of Commons our doom is sealed anu the taunt will be thrown in our faces when- ever we try to find redress, Moreover, it is adm.:tted by the friends of the Government, that for treir tyranny there is no excuse. No one dares to say that either Mr. Davies or Mr. Sinclair does mot possess as much or more ability than some who retain a seat in the Cabinet. Their real object in appvint- ing Mr. Laird Governor of the Northwest, appears to me was to enable them to give the seat to Mr. Mills, who has always been opposed to every concession to the Provinces. It appears that no matier what the Govern- ment at Ottawa does it finds a slavish de- fender in the Patriol. When they petitioned the Queen to interfere with the Schoo! Law enacted by the people of New Brunswick, the Patriot was loud in their praise. Again, when the Government passed a law fastening Separate Schools on the Northwest for all time the Pa/riot was on hand to abuse Pro- testant Ministers, for daring to say a word against it. And now, when every mau who has a spark of patriotism in him should be on hand to rebuke our rulers, he raises a cloud of dust to divert the people’s mind from the real issue. The questions for the people to decide at the Election are, not what we think of Free Trade or Protection, what Sir John A. Macdonald said at some Picnic, or what Mackenzie said at another Picnic : but the real live questions lo decide al present are whether we approve of the Dominion Government laking away our re- presentation in the Cabinel ; do we approve of Section Eleven in the Northwest Act ; do me anmemee of interfering with the New Bruns- wick School Law? If there are any men in this County base enough, and mean spirited enough’ to approve of these acts, let them, by all means, vote for the Govern- ment candidate, Mr. Welsh. But if they do not approve of these acts, let them vote for Pope or any other honest and spirited enough to stand up for our rights.” os ldeiiliiilllo wki

Cornection.—Senator Simpson's Bank re- ceives Dominion Government Deposits to the amount of $600,000 as the price of « com- ing down handsomely,” in aid of the Mac- kenzie Party previous to the general election —not $300,000 as previously stated. Senator

Simpson's Bank has also on deposit a mil lion and a quarter dollars bearing interest. The profit which Senator Simpson’s Bank makes out of its corrupt bargain with the

tender. Their quotations, no matter how low, will either be ruled out, on some flimsy excuse, or else remsin entirely unnoticed. We know of one instance, in particular, where tenders were called for the supply of a certain article which was required in large quantities. The tender, though not awarded at the time, was understood to be fixed. One or two months intervened, during which time the market price of the article fell. Before the tender was closed, a second party, whom, it seems, hada “claim to favor,” was allowed to re-covsider his former figure and drop just sufficiently to get the job. The first party mentioned, who was, in al! justice, entitled to the award, never knew what happened until he was inform- ed indirectly.

This is only ove out of a number of eases wherein parties have made bitter complaints to us of the insolent manner in which they have been dealt with by

The Editor of the Patriot has! representatives of the present Dominion

Government. The practice is not only disgraceful and insulting but it might often cause serious damage to the business of those unfortunate enough to be so unscrupulously gulled.

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“A WARNING.

Ir is well that electors in the country should know that the campaign speeches of the Leader of the Local Government are —like Mr. Welsh’s Card—“ worthy of the closest study.’’ The fluent, positive style of Mr. L. H. Davies is very mislead- ing. His smile, too, is positively bewitch- ing. Therefore it is necessary that his words should be carefully weighed. Every thing he says on his campaign tour, should be accepted cum grano salis. He can make ‘“black’’ appear ‘“ white,’’ and “ white” no color at all better than any man in the Maritime Provinces. And then he has such an imagination! Let us give one or two illustrations of his powers. At Pownal the other day, ke told the people that the Pacific Railway was likely to cost three times as much as was estimated—that instead of costing $30,- 000,000 in money, it would cost $90,000, - 000. At Victoria, a few weeks ago—after the surveys had been completed—Eail Dufferin said :—

“Tam happy to see, from the statist’c} furnished by that paper, (the /vronto Globe) that the calculated expenses of construction, though very great, and to be incurred oniy after careful consideration, are far less than was anticipaled ! !”’

Again, he argued at Pownal that the Hon. J. C. Pope, to be consistent, must, if elected a member of the House of Com. mons, use his influence to force separate schools upon the Provinces. Unwittingly, perhaps, he thanked heaven that for a Do- minion Member to interfere with the school question is unconstitutional! He left out of his calculation the fact that Mr. Pope has always showed particular respect for the constitution, especially in the matter of the school question. He also appears to have forgotten for the nonce, that the McKenzie Party has, ever since 1872, persistently infringed the cou- stitution in its endeavors to force separate schools upon New Bruuswick, and in its establishment of separate schools in the Great North.West. Yet, to hear him talk, no one [who would listen, without thinking] would imagine that he was dealing a heavy blow at the McKenzie Party! ! Again wewarn our friends in the country to beware of the plausibie style and faseinating manuer of the Leader of the Local Government. We advise electors to be sure that his statements are founded

Mackenzie party is about $30,000 a year!

on fact before accepting them as true,

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are lightl i ve girdled witht Where they smile in In the last Arg eandidates were

land nothing 2

POISONED WITH WHISKEY.

As an instance of this, let it be unders | es

forontTo, Oct. 29 About half-past one to-day, Dr. King informed the police thet a little boy was dying in a house near the corner of Yonge and Isabella streets from the effects of whiskey given te him by companions, The lad whose name is Patrick, Conroy, died shortly after the arrival of the police. facts so far as can be ascertained, are as | follows :— Four boys—te deceased, agea 7, | his brother Francis, Charles Jacobs, aged | 12, and Matthew Cavanagh, aged 13, were | playing on the stiéet when adrunken man passed with a bottle of whiskey in his pocket. The boys managed to steal the | bottle, and Jacobs and Cavanagh threw | Conroy down, snd while one held him, the | other poured a large quantity of whiskey down his throat, with the consequences above mentioned. The two boys are under arrest pending an inquest, which will be

held to-morrow, <> - OPLN PASSAGE TO THE ARCTIC SAA,

Paivavetpuia, Oct. 25. — The Swedish

that Professor Nordenskiald, the eminent mineraligist and explorer, a member of | the jury of award at the Exhibitson, and | who sailed on the 29th of June for Sweden, has already accomplished the Siberian trip which he has projected for this season. He sailed from Sweden last August, and suc-

Arctic Sea. | obstacles, and considers the way now quite | open from Europe to China in the northern

by which river communication is obtained across Siberia and nearly to the frontier of

China. An immense area of fertile soil was found to exist in this region, all of | which is open to immediate cultivation.

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO M Ww SH, EsqQ., CANDIDATE ON BENALF OF CAUCHON AND THE | GOVERNMENT WHICH ROBBED US OF

REPRESENTATION IN THE CABINET. There is a Lot of every L t, the pride, Beloved of heaven, over all the earth beside, Where brighter suns dispense serener light,

And miller moons emparaidise the night » * *

Where can that Lot, found—

Art thou a man, a pitriot,

Ob, thou wilt find wheree’:

That Lot, the Spot wher

} ' . i ae 0a ot f ea , ibat plot of earth,

in Lot 49. WAR TEREPODAY VW AR BSsts2: AER AS, wre A RR res as ve RUSSIA DEMANDS TURKEY 8 ACCEPTANCE OF ARMISTICE AND A CESSATION OF HOSTILI- TIFS— PANIC IN FINANCIAL CIRCLES. I INDO Oct ai A Vienna correspondent of tha /imes says | the announcement of the armistice was | premature. The Porte was only expected

to give a definite reply on Monday. There was every zround to believe the reply will | be satisfactory, At Liverpool, the mills of the Mersey | Seed Crushing Company were burned ; loss | 100,000. Over 300 haads are out of ems ployment. Tne British barque Zhesus, of London, | from Malta to San Francisco, was wrecked | Sept. 11 on one of the Loochoo islands; the captain, first Mate, and eight others were | lost; the second mate, carpenter, cook, and | the others were saved. Sr. Pererspureu, Oct. 31.—To-day’s of- | ficial Gazetie states that General Ignatieff,

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has been instructed to demand the Porte’s acceptance within forty-eight hours of the ten days armistice and a suspension of hostilities, otherwise the diplomatic rela- tions between Russia and Turkey will be broken off. Ignatieft, with the whole per~ sonnel of the Embassy, will leave Constanti-~ nople in the event of the Porte’s refusal, This ultimatum was dispatched from Livas dia, where the Russian Court is sojourning, to Constantinople yesterday,

Lonpon, Oct.31.—The Russian ultimatum has created great excitement in financial circles. Consols decline one-half per eent., with a depressed feeling in all classes of European securities,

Advices from Berlin report a panic on the Bourse over threatening advices Russia.

Slade, the American medium, has been convicted under the vagrant Act, and sen- tenced to three months in the house of corsa rection. He has appealed,

Lonpon, Nov. 2.—The Times’ Belgrade correspondent declares that the Porte has

from

months’ armistice is agreed to. He also states that the levy en masse his been coun~ termanded.

The Turks have entered and Kauschevatz.

Whatever may be the result of the nego-~ tiations for a permanent peace, Servia will fight no more, and Russian volunteers are not likeiy to come again to fight for her.

It is reported that a third of the Russian privates and half of the Russian officers in the Servian army have been killed or wounded.

The correspondent of the Daily News says of Sunday’s battle -—‘‘ [he full weight and

burned

easy to estimate, and it is too early to form an opinion of the loss incurred, and we do not know where the troops are, to say no- thing of the wounded, many of fear, will never be brought. wing of the army is iu 2 condition of de- moraiizition, and at least temporary dis- persion. The Russian oflicers are leaving. They decline te be massacred for a people whom they denounce as destitute of all martial spirit. They have no words to ex- press their contempt and disgust for the

whont, j

pusillanimity of the Servian soldiers.”’

Popes’ Supporler

i id the last iseut Lu

The incapacity, Corruption

Commissioner obtained information to-day |

ceeded in demonstrating the correctness of | his theory in regard to an open way to the | He reports having found no,

passage in the valley of the Teuezel River, |

| majority there. | following day, a meeting was held at Belle

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A public meeting of the supporters of

the Hon. J.C. Pope was held in the

Market Hall of this city on Friday evening, |

3d inst. The Hall was well filled. On motion of Mr. Donald Mackenzie, (of the

firm of Mackenzie & Stumbles) Nei! Rankin

was called to the Chair. Mr. Isaac Oxenham was appointed Secretary.

The Chairman said that he had been accused by some gentlemen connected with the Party which he had supported at the late local general election, of acting incon- sistently and stultifying himself, in, now supporting the Hon,J. C. Pope. This charge was unfair and‘ without foundation. He

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The | had opposed Mr, Pope at the late general | ‘election on conrcientious grounds, on ac- count of his action in reference to the |

School Question, yet he felt that that gentleman had done more good service to his country than any other politician now amongst us, The,’School Question was settled, so far as ‘he people were coucerned, and he bad now no hesitation in doing as much to secure Mr. Pope’s election as he had done to oppose him during the contest local eleciion. If he (Mr. R.) with inconsistency In

for the could be charged doing what Le now did, in wuat po ition was the late representative for Queen’s County in fhe House of Commons! Had not that bon. gentleman been extremely inconsistent in dealing with the School Question? Yet that gentleman’s Party had

no complaint to make against him! He (Mr. i.) felt that in doing Mr. Pope his full and hearty support he was! doing his

duty. Hon. J. C, Pope having been called for, addressed the meeting.

and supporters upon that occasion. an omen of success for him during the ap-

proaching ejection contest for the vacant seat for Queen’s County in the Dominion | very | busily occupied in speaking at public meet-

House of Commons. He had been

ings in the southern end of the country

As matters now stood, the greater portion ‘of that eum would gointo the United States

' was that he was the supporter of the cor-

struction of the Pacific Railway, was a grand

He was glad to meet so large a number of his old friends t was

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cents per bushel. If the whole quantity wera exported to that country, duty free,

this Island would save over $200 090.

Treasury instead of the pockets of our farms ers. The next charge made against him

ruptionists and should not be trusted. Sir John’s policy, with reference to the cons

proaching election, he would not himself to support Sir John 4. Mace tt i as he did not consider this

had been too well used

first Dominion Election, 7 —— ticular advantage were at any time ed by Mr. Mackenzie for the

of this Island, he (Mr. P.) sould su him. No matter from whom an measure emanated, it would receive

one, and well calculated to make the Do- minona great country, by opening it up, for colonization from the Atlantic to the Pa-~ cific. Sir John McDonald's policy was to give any Company, that would construct the Road, $3),000,000 ia cash and fifty mil lions of acres in lands, lying in the vicinity of the line, reserving fifty millions of acres for the Government. During the building of the Railway, thousands of emigrants would come to assist in the construction of the work and to purchase lands in the great North West; and before twenty years ex- pire, the whole of the fifty millions of acres received by the Government, would te sold /toactual setttlers. The additional Revere ‘nue derived from the sale of the lands | would more than equal the $30,000,000 ex- | pended on the construction of the Road. | The people of Manitobah, British Columbia, /and the North West, would then be placed in « position to come and go, and trade with other parts of the country through our own | territory. Instead of assisting in carrying | out this grand scheme, Mr, McKenzie and | his party denounced it as impracticable and | ruinous, and declared that the contract had | been sold to Sir Hugh Allan, It was now a well.known fact that the latter never had even the promise of the contract, directly ; or indirectly. Jay Cooke's speculators were on the look out for the contract; and be- cause Sir John McDonald set his face | agoinst allowing foreiguers to have anything | to do with it, he was denouaced as corrupt. | [n constructing the Manitoba line of railway, | Mr. McKeuzie bad thrown the whole of the traffic of the road, in winter, into American territory, and thus deprived the Dominion of that portion of its own trade. The con- | | |

struction of that line placed facilities in the hands of the Americans for taking possess sion of that portion of the country which should never have been given them. Build- ing the road within our own territory, so as to facilitate trade between the provinces, was calculated to improve and enrich the whole country, while Mr. McKenzie’s policy was Calculated to destroy it. Although the Grits had made heavy charges of corruption against Sir Joun A. McDonald, in cons nection with the Pacific Railway, no less than forty of them had been, since then, unseated for corrupt practices in securing their election! One of them, It was proved, had expended no less than $20,000 in bribing the electors, and was disqualified for eight years from holding a seat in Par- lizment or any public office! A Mr, Cooke anda Mr. Cushing were also disqualified for the same offence, for a similar period. lt was proved that the former had expends ed $40,000 in securing his election. Al- though so many of the Grits were convicted of corrupt practices in securing their elece

since Monday last, and was a good deal | tion, nota single Conservative had been

fatigued. But he had received great en» | proved guilty of such practices. This é j ‘eg -

couragement at those meetings, and was | plainly showed where the corruption really

what he believed

Previous to his enter-

determined to work in, to be, a good cause.

ing the present canvass, it had been said

i by his politicil opponents that it was of no | use for him to goto the Belfast. district as Mr. Walsh's majority there would be at least | 000 per year more than under Sir John

900. This did not deter him from visiting

that district. The first meeting? was held

|} at Eldon, on Monday Jast, and his friends |

had since told him that he would have a On the afternoon of the

was. Taking all these matters into con- | sideration, he (Mr. Pope) did not think Mr. Mackenzie or his party entitled to the support of the people of this Island. The | expenditure for the Civil List was now $90-

A’s Government; and, in order to sustain | themselves in the Government, the Grits were now endeavoring to pension off all | who were advanced in years. It is not | long since an Act was passed in the Do- | minion House of Commons, which, if it had

Creek, and a more orderly one he had | become .aw, would have deprived one half never attended. He had been told that | of our young men of their franchise. If he would not obtain even a hearing at that | it had not been for the efforts of Senator

| division. On | held at Uigg, but there was no division. In

meeting; but the reverse proved to be the case. future, to think and judge for themselves. Some of the speakers remarked that they had hitherto been following the advice of others in politics, and that they had been misled by their representatives. But they

| were determined, in future to act upon | their own judgment, A good proportion of

the meeting was in his favor, but there was |

no division. In the evening a meeting was held ot Wood Islands, at which an attempt was made to get up a division upon a side

the PR

Breadewater.

issue, Viz: furnishing of the Victoria

Some of the people would

| support Mr. Wal-h provided he would get |

that work completed.

oe)

the evening, a large meeting was held at Vernon River,

would receive a large support.

Mr. Welsh nearly buried himself. His

| political opponents at all those meetings |

endeavoured to excite account of the School

had prejudice

against him on his action

in dealing with

The peop'e seemed determined, in |

But there was no | Wednesday a meeting was |

where he found that he | Next | day a meeting was held at Pownal where |

Question, |

Haviland the Bill would have become law, and every young man in this Province who | did not possess a property qualification, | would have been disfranchised! When | Mr. Laird and his Party joined the Mac- | kenzie Party he was given a seat in the | Cabinet; but when he was appointed Goy- | ernor ot the Northwest the seat was not given to an Islander but to Mr. Mills, of Bothwell, Ontario. Why was not Hon. | Mr. Uaythorne or Mr. P, Sinclair appointed to the vacant seat? The Island was justly and fully entitled to have a representative in the Cabinet. There was nv excuse for depriving this Island of the vacant seat; it was “mn insult to the people of this Province, who were treated as nonentities. The seat was ‘aken from us and given to Ontario, in order to give the latter a greater influence jin the Government. Mr. Geoffrion, of Quebec, was obliged to retire from the Cabinet, through ill health, and that Pro

vince will not allow the vacant seat to pass | out of her possession. We had now no member in the Cabinet to whom to apply for the redress of any grievance. No man could justify the course which the Do- | minion Government had pursued towards

the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, He explained to them that his object in this [sland with reforence to this matter.

| dealing with that matter was to secure a | fie who attempted to do so, deserved to good Free School Act for the country dis. | bea slave all the remaining part of his life. | tricts and to do something for the sectarian | It was now the duty of our representatives | schools established in the towns. But he | in thegfDominion to stand up and give no

stated that he could not see that it was | party their support who refused to appoint | right to make such charges against him | one of their number to a seat in the Cabis | while his Opponent supported the Macken- | net, He would support no party that would