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LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVc CONVENTION,

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servative Party wil be held in Charlotte- |

town, in Welsh & Owen's Brick Build- ing, Queen Street, on TUESDAY, the 80th instant, at twelve o'clock, to nom- inate candidate Dominion Election.

Each Polling Division in the County are requested to send two Delegates, whom, it is hoped, will be appointed at an early day.

A full attendance is requested.

SIMON W. CRABBE, Secretary.

Ch’'town, May 23, 1882. pres

Tue Daity EXAMINER

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MAY 29, 1882.

THE FAITHFUL(?) REPRESENTATIVES

Dr. Jonson, on Saturday night, spoke of M.a rs. Laird and Davies as having been “faithful representatives.”

MR. LAIRD in 1871, was elected to stop the railway ; and he bailt the branches.

He denounced the contractors, (Schreiber and Burpee), and he retained thei to buiid the branches.

He held Mr. Boyd up to the scorn of the publie as. an incompetent engineer, snd he retained Mr. Boyd.

Then he agreed to support the Government of Sir John A. Mac- donald, on eondiiion that his Party

should get half the patronage; and he was elected a member of the Dominion House of Commons.

He entered the Vommons leaning upon the arm of Sir John Macdonald; and he ‘*gold.”” Sir John Macdonald for a seat in | the Cabinet.

A few years previously he held his hands up to heaven and said his tongue might cleave to the roof of his mouth and his right hand forget its cunning, if he ever supported ‘* Separate Scheols”; and he gave Separate Schools to the whole vast territory of the Great North-Wesr.

Them he deserted his constituents, left the Island entirely without representation in the Cabinet, forgot even to return thanks ;—and became a Lieutenant Gover- nor.

Now he prates about the cost of missicns to Great Britain, which have proved of incalculable advantage to the country,while he pockets the greater part of $1,600, which he obtained for coming from Battleford to P. E. Island.

A few days ago, he was declaiming against the Local Government for not expending $40,000 or $50,000 more, per year, upon local public works ; but he is at present engaged in denouncing the Do- mivion Government for the grants and subsidies made with « view of developing the country and giving inereased facilities to its people.

The writer once heard a lady describe Mr. Laird as ‘‘ the quintessence of selfish- ness.” Had she added the words, ‘and erookedness,” she would have completed a truthful picture.

The mentai lens of Dr. Johnson must certainly be inverted, if he sees in Mr. Laird ‘Sa Faithful Representative.”

So much for Faithful David !

MR DAVIES.

Or the “‘ faithfulness ” of Mr. Davies we need give but one instance

Mr. Davies contends that this Island has @ distinct right to a share of the ‘* Fishery Award.”

Acmitting the truth of this,—

That right existed when Mr. Davies was Leader of the Government of the Island.

As a clever lawyer, and the Island’s Attorney General, he had the opportunity of demanding ‘‘ the right.” :

But he accepted a fee from the Domi- nion Government ; and did not do so.

The duty Mr. Davies owad to this Province was transferred to the god of mammon. The talents he should, as chief representative of the Island, have employed im enforcing the right of the Islan’, he employed in get- ting the money for the Dominion at large ; and he pocketed a great fee.

The Attorney General of Newfoundland worked for the Island he represented ; and got a fair share of the Award.

Mr. Davies worked for Canada, pocketed his fee to the tune of $7000, and at the same time drew his salary as Attorney General of the Island. ,

This is faithfulness.

Faithful Laird, Faithful Louis !! Patriotic Pair !!! :

Taxation Per Head.

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Tue following is the rate cf Customs Duties per head of our population since the Island entered confederation :

1874 : : . - $233 1875 : ; 3 37 1876 3 é ¢. nae 1877 . : . -: 2a 1878 : ; : o- «i 1879 ‘ ; ; n> 2.00 1880 . . - Gril 1881 : . : «ant @@

_ It will be seen that we pay less per head

since the Protective Policy was adopted

we did under the so called Free Trade oliey of the Grits.

The Island's Representative in the Cabinet.

A TELEGRaM to the Halifax Herald BAYS :

‘Tt imannounced that Mr. McDonald late M. P. for King's County, P. E. Island, will shortly succeed the Hou, J. C. Pope in the Cabinet.”

We are notiaware that a selection haa yet been made. If, however, it has fallen sate Mr. McDonald, it has fallen upon a true- hearted man —one whe will not desert his Eee vor deceive his constituents; and the

will, we feel assured, be appreciat d

Bot only by Mr. MuDo + but ing’ County, sud. the je Aetace A Pade ‘t

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Rant : ; "? : GPL Handid ‘ db for (uesn Ds | terior. and the further the better.”

The Honorcble David Laird.

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{ # . ue — s« 2. j ic h- . |eaid, “ by all means send him into the lan additional $6000 or $7000 from the

lof Queen’s County before going to

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With that ingratitude which forms pit of the man, he never consulted the peope tle | North-West, nor even addressed a cad hrouch the newspapers, thanking then |

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Tuts gentiemiri is now formally ne neanced as one of the Grit candidates for|for the position ¥ hich they had giv | Queen's County We are not going to hiin } ‘ | ‘ . Fol > | > : . z ger ee ; : Es enquire into the crooked and devious means| We have now bri: fly sketched ex-G@

: ’ if . a? ? by which obtained his nomination. | ernor Laird’s eareer; and if he has done aly eas , . j . - ». br Chat isa matter with which Conservatives] geod thing during his political “ pt have nothing to do. But every elector of | which we have given bim no credit, We the County is interested in the paat record | s :all gladly acknowledge the omission wien |

of the men 10 represent the next five yea A brief e) quiry into record is, therefore, in order.

who repre I rs in the House of

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Mr. Laird’s first appearance before the public was in the character of editor of a pay er known as the Protestant and Eran jelical Auvocate of the question of a our hero an

The opening up

Union of the Colonies gave ypportunity to make a new departure. de became an ardent anti-confederate. The nam; of his paper wa- chaug d from the PM, otestant to wwe Patriot. His denuncela- tions of the ‘‘ great whore of Babjlon” gave place to equally chaste denunciations

of the “child of the Canadian harlot. Our readers have not forgotten how readily he jumped ‘Jim Crow” on the Schvol

Question, when Section XI. was before the House of Conimmons, nor how easily he overcame his antipathy to the ‘‘ Canadian harlot,” when his midnight delegition left for Ottawa to negotiate union wiih

Cunada! Our hero, after being rejected by both Belfast and New London,was successfu), in

1871. in defeating Mr. Duncan, in Belfast, on the Railway question. On the day fellow- ing his victory, he was escorted frem Pow- al to Charlottetown by a procession of his carriage in which Mr. Laird rode, in that procession, there waved a flag, bearing the inscription—*‘ No Rail- way. That inscription correctly indicated the issue on which he aecured his seat. In a little more than twelve months after this he became a member of the Government, and in direct violation of his pre-election

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Alberton to Tignish, and one from St. Peters to Souris. By doing so he basely betrayed his constituents. If he had the slightest spark of honorabie feeling he would not have gone back on his profes- sions on the Railway question merely for the sake of office; even a decent. poli tical schemer would, under the cirenm- stances, have stipulated that if railways were built East and West, the same con sideration should be extended to his own District. No demand for justice for Bel- fast was heard at that time. The District was basely betrayed by its representative; and while all sectiuns of the Island are enjoying Railway facilities, Bel fast and Murray Harbour are left ent in the eold.,

Confederation having been carried in July, 1873, Mr Leird was elected to the Crmmons in September of that year. During the elections he gave his consti- tuents to understand that he would support the Government then led by Sir Johu Me- Denald. When the Honse of Commons met some weeks afterwards, he waited until he saw that his vete, and that of bis three eolleagues from the Island—who acted with him—would defeat the Government, when he boldly croased the floor of the Touse, and received his reward as Minister of the Interior in the Mackenzie Govern- ment.

Daring the three veirs which followed, the inviduality of our hero became lost in the general imbecllity which marked the Mackenzie Administration. For the bad faith which alm; st drove British Columbia out of tie Dominion; for the “Ay on the wheel” policy, which made the Dominion a slarghter market for the United States, crushed our infant industries, produced deficit. after deficit, and destroyed our national crelit; for the corruption which bought steel rake{which were not wanted) at extravagant prices, from a firm. in which a brother of the Premier was a sleeping partner ; for the bungling which built a» Fort Francis Lock at a cost of $275,(02, to remain forever in the w Iderness @8 & touu- ment of administrative folly,—for these, and scores of other actions, equally io ésfensible, Mr. David Laird must be held responsible. It is trne he was one of the weakest members of a very weak administration ; but his insignificance does not relieve him from the responsibility whi h constitutionaly rests on every member

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of an Administration. But there is one act of the Mackenzie Government for

which the Hon. David Laird must assume more than an ordinary share of respon- sibility. While in all the other Provinces the franchise for the Lower House became the franchise for the Dominion, the Mac- kenzie Government introduced a bill which mace the qualification of electora for the Legislative Council the qtistification to enable a man to vote for members fur the House of Commons in P. E. Island. There is no doubt that this was a scheme of David Laird’s to disfranchise the young men of this Province. The reason assioned hy the Ministry of the day for treating Prince Edward Island differently from the other Provinces, was that it was not practicable to adopt the House of Assembly qualifica- tion here, because there was no registra tion of Assembly voters in Prince Edward Island. There is evety reason to believe that Mr. Laird wilfully deceived his col- leagues at that time. Had they heen told in time that there was no regietreticn of voters for the Council on the Island, it is very doubtiul if they would have permitted Laird to try his littl game. As it was, the Liberal-Conservatives in the Senate, assisted by Mr. Hiythorne, defeated Mr. Laird’s attempt to distranchise the young wen of Prince Edward Island.

An inglorious career of three years as a member of the Cabinet was brought to a close in October, 1876, by the ap; ointment of our hero as Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories, and his place in the ministiy was filled by the philosopher of Bothweil, Ontario, Mr. Mills. ‘The friends of the ex-Governor here are pleased «f sp ak of his removal to the North-West a3a promotion. Inasmuch as it gave him an extension of office for over three years and enabled him to draw further emolu ments to the extent of about $25,000, it cer @ sly Kas | Y>motion in the sense most likxsy to be appreciated by Mr. Laird; but it is certain that his removal was regarded as a happy deliverance by the Grit party,

rod ‘dictates bistchs a) taatverwat soothed BF all saktch waser ie’

speeches and pledges he built two ad- ditional Railway lines, viz., one from}

us for}it is pointed out to us.

Mr. Laird’s| has received for his services to the counry Mr. “ t | sincn his election to the Heuse of Can-

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for us to shew how much the ex-Governor

mons. The following figures are taken from the public accounts of the Dominio) :

Memorandum of moneys received vy fin. D. Laird, from Dominion fovernment, fran | Confederation to date :

1874 to 30th June, as Minister,

$4.550.02.as M. P., $1,000 00 = $5,551 02

1875 to 30th June, as Minister, $7.000.00,as M. P., $1000.00 8,000 09 1876 to 30th June, as Minister, $7,000 00,as M. P., $1,000.00 §,00000

1377 to 30th June, as Minister to Gth Oct, 1876, $1,862.91; Travelling Expenses, $'5,

‘* to 30th June, Lieut.-Gev., on acct. of Trav. and other

1,877, 91

expenses, $1,000. 00, 1,000.00 ‘* to 80th June,as Lieut.-Gov., 5,137 °07

HXAMINER, MA ¥ 29, 1

| This sim nay possibly be augmented by

Dewinien ia the Fishery matter, when | the action brought by Mr. Doutre is d's: | posed, and Mr. Davies is, we understan@, | threatening to bring an action against the Local Government for a further amount as Vounsel for the Land Commission. Ex-Governor Laird has received for the

‘last eight years over $8,000 a year, and

Mr. Ll. H. Davies for the last five years nearly $3,500 a year fur public services. In come respects these gentlemen are well mat ad. They will agree until the election is over. If they are elected, and a good

fat oilice presents itself, then, as Burns

would say, ‘‘Deil take the hindmost.” --— <--> o—_—___—____-

Mr. Joux J. McGee who has just been arpomnted Clerk of the Privy Council, is a brother of the late D’Arcy McGee. After spending thirteen years in the cutside service of the Government, he entered the Civil Ser- vice in 1579 as a tirat class clerk in the depart-

| ment of the Interior, from which he was pro-

moted to assistant clerk of the Privy Council in January, 1880,

Harp Times 1n Boston. —A working man in boston writes to friends in Moncton to the effect that times are very hard there just now. He also says the weather is exceedingly back- werd there,

to 30th June.as Lient Gov., $6.999 86, expenses Treaty, $962. 94, i879 to 30th June, as Lieut-Gov., $6,999.96 ; newsp’rs, $80.75 ** to 30ih June, as Indian Supt., 15th Dec., "76 to 3ist March, ’79, 1880 to 30th June, as Lieut-Gov., 87,000 ; newspapers, $90 75, 7,090 75

18738 7,962 90

7,080 7)

2.291 67

1ISS1 to 30th June, as Lieut-Gov., $7,000 ; Trav.expenses, $874 7,874 00 ‘* to 30th June, vewspapers, 88 05

1882 to 30th June, as Lieut-Gov., $2,900 ; Trav. exp’s, $1,500, 3,460 00 $65,353 08 Why should the people of this County elect David Laird torepresent them? Does not the past record of a public man afford a good test by which to estimate his future usefulness? Is not David Laird’s record ohne of treachery, ingratitude and unbound- ed greed? Having angled in vain for a prolongation of office in the North-West, he hastens back to P. E. Island, and at once becomes an aspirant for political place, with the ill-concealed purpose of making another pile. Most men woold be satisfied with the 805.000 made in the last eight years, but David Laird is not so easily satistied: He rushes into the arena of pol without a decent invitation, and rudely pushes te one side the most deserv- ing men of his own party. It remains for the electors of this Connty to give Mr. Laird his quietus on the 20th of June, and give him leave te return to the North-West, or some other, suitable place. L. H. Davies, Fsq: Is the second Grit Candidate for the representation of this County. We have uething to say against Mr. Davies as a private citizen. As a politician he has, however, been a complete failure ; and it is with his political career that we have solely to do. His administration of local affairs for the brief period when he was at the head of the Government, gave universal dissetisfaction all over the Province. His Legislation was crude and _ ill-considered, the Department of Works and Justice were mavaged with great extravagance, and the most unblushing nepotism prevailed, almost every available place being filied with relatives of his own, It is not forgotten that before the cluse of the third year of his administration he was driven from oflice and that an appeal to the people led to the defeat of almost every member of his party. ; : '

The part which Mr. Davies played in the matter Of the Fishery Award should, we chink, lead to his emphatic ejection by the people of Queen’s County. While holding the office of Attorney General of this Pro- vince he accepted fees from the Dominion of Canada, and acted Counsel for the Dominion before the Halifax Commission. In this way the separate claim of this Province was never placed before the Com- mission as was the claim of Newfoundland. We ratified the Treaty of Washington as a separa’e Province, and did not, on entering Confed. vation, cede the compensation likely to arise under the Treaty. Our case should have been pres: nted separately as was the case 6f Newfoundland, and a separate sum demanded. Mr. Davies acted in a most un- professional manner in being legal adviser 'o buth parties. Like his colleague, Mr. Laird, he had an ‘‘ itching palm,” and the consequence has been that something like a million of dollars which shonld have been paid to tne Island was, throngh Mr, Davies’ assistance, paid into the Dominion Treasury,

Mr. Davies, like his colleague, Mr. Laird, bas no idea of serving the public for nothing. In the past he has evidently regarded the emoluments as the better part ;—and we subjcin a memorandum, showing payments to Mr. Davies during the last five years, as far as they are known :

Memorandum of moneys received by Mr. L. H. Davies from P. E, Island and Dominion Governments:—

1875 to 3Ist Dee., as Attorney *

General, $505; on Land Com-

mission, $1,950,

to 3lst Dec., Member H. of

A., $212; Attorney General,

$1,600,

Expenses to St. John,

1878 to 3ist Dec., Member H. of A., $212; Attorney General, $1,600,

(Duriog this period Mr. J. Longworth was paid §$1,- 087.71, and Mr. F. Peters, $237; total, $1,324 71; by the Local. Coverument. )

** Counsel for Dom. Gov't,

9 to 3ist Dec., Attorney Gen- Geveral,

(In this vear Mr. J. Long- worth received from the Local Government, $411.40; Paliner & McLeod, $215; and F. Feters, $90; total, $716.40.)

1880 to 31st Dec., Fees as solicitor

Comm’r Public Lands, ** Counsel for Crown,

1881 to 3ist. Dec., Counsel for Crown,» $70; .Land Cow’, 3, 227208,

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$2,455 00

1,812 00 72 23

1812 00

8,400 00 312 97

541 39 20 00

'B,297 03 $17,3.9 62 600 00

39 00

Add for retainer in 1876 as counsel on Fisheries Commision,

As Mem)ey Ui. of a. short session

1879,

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7,362 02

Academy of Music. Monday Evening, May 29th, EXTRAORDINARY ANNOUNCEMENT !

Grand Complimentary Testimonial,

TENDERED TO THE Society St. Vincent de Paul, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POOR,

BY THE MANAGEMENT OF

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UPON WHICH OCCASION

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cast to the full strength of this excellent Company.

The entertainment will conclude with selections from Shakspeare’s masterpiece— ‘‘Hamcet”-—and Victor Hugo’s ideal play, ‘‘ Ruy Bias,” by Mr. Harry C. Frank.

Admission . . . 85 Cente. Keserved Seats 50 Cents. Children . ° 25 Cents.

‘Yickets can be obtained at the Diamond B. \stere, and of members of the Society.

May 29, 1882.

BE" TIN POCKET CUTLERY Just received, direct from matkera,

75 BOZiN Jonathan Crooke’s Pocket Knives,

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60 Dozen—Fixne German.

Wholesale buyers should examine these Goods.

FISHING TACKLE.

Rops, Lives, Fims, Rerts, erc., CHEAP.

6 Double Breech loading Guns, C. F., at a slight advance on ccst.

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May 28, 1882 —dly pat sj 2i

Bank of P. E. Island.

CHARLOTTETOWN, May 29, 18382.

The adjourned Special Meeting of Stock- holders will’ be held in the Banking House

LO MORROW (TUESDAY) FORKNOON, at 11 o’clock.

JOHN LONGWORTH, ma 29 13] President.

NOTIC’ IS HEREBY GIVEN

BY THE STADACONIA FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (in liquidation), in pursuance of the statute of the Dominion Parliament, passed the 17th day of May, 1882—intituled, ‘‘ An Act to amend and ex- tend the Act to empower the Stadacona Fire and Life Insurance Company to relinquish their charter and to provide for the mode of winding up their affairs” —that it is enacted as follows :—

1, Every person, company, body corporate or creditor whatsoever, having or claiming to have any claim or demand against the Com- pany, which is denied, not admitted or not recoguize i by it shall be bound to proceed for the recovery thereof in some Court of com- petent jurisdiction within one year from and after the passing of this Act; and in default of so doing within such delay, snch person, company, body corporate or creditor shall be for ever deprived of the right of making such c aim or demand.

2. Notwitustanding anything contained in section eight of the Act above cited, creditors who are tnknown, have disappeared, are un represented or not to be feund, and who have not, either personally or by atturney, pre- ferred their claims to the Company, either for dividend or otherwise, withia the aforesaid term of one year, shal( be held to have abandoned the same, and to have renounced their right to any future divi- dead, and the fiaal liquidation of the «ffai s of the Company shall be proceeded wih as hough euch persons or such claims had uever existed.

NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that Frrsr DrvipenD has been declared by the liquida. Wtors on the 15th December, 1538).

Quebe:, 20th May, 1882.

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MEETING!

A PUBLIC MEETING OF THE Liberal - Conservative Party

WILL BE iiKLD) IN THE

MARKET HALL,

Tuesday Evening, 30th inst,

Chair to be taken at 8 o'clock,

SIMON W. CRABBE,

THE HEADQUARTERS CENTRAL COMMITTEE Liberal - Conservative Party

MARKET HALL.

The Hall is open every day and evening, for the convenience of Liberal-Conser- vative electors throughout the County who desire to receive, or wish to give, information respeccing the campaign.

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Apply at once CARVELL BRO'S,

May 29, 1882—2i pd Agents,

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May 27, i882—-Im

WANTED. rT? Lease or Purchase, A FIELD of from four to six acres, within one mile from the Province Building. Apply to JOHN A. MacVONNELL,

President Caledouian Club of P. E. I, Ch’town, May 27th, 18 2.—tf

WANTS, LOST, i GUND, d&e. ryxO LET, with immediate jossession given,

a neat, comfortable Cottage, with yard, stable and garden, situated on Richmond Street west, near the river. Rent moderate, Apply to James D. Mason. {ma 26 6i eod

OR SALE, at a bargain, a Shop Win- dow and Shutters, Shop Counter and

two Shop Doors. Enquire at this office. {ma 25 3i

W ANTED- A Girl to do genera) bouse- work, to whom liberal wages will be given. Apply at the Examyer Cftice, [ma 23tf

\ J ANTED, by a young msn, a situation as Clerk in an office or store, Good

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qVOR SALE.-—A vis-a vis wagon, Apply to T. Moorr.-—-[ma 22 3i LD STEEL—I bave a lot which I will sell cheap or erychange on favorable terns for cld Scrap Iron.—H, Cooms. [ma 13 3w pat

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rg°O RENT A bouse containing thirteen

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ry°O LET—That pleasantly-rituated resi-

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