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Dainty EXAMIN
OCTOBER 1, 1875.
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Mr. Dodd’s Circular.
THe nervous system of the Patriot is evi- dently very much deranged by the recent reverses of the Grit Party, and he, in con- sequence, shapes. ample, of making a ‘‘ mean attack”’ Hon. T. W. Dodd
and asserting that he practiced deceit~-
sees matters in exaggerated He accuses the Examiner, for ex” upon the
calling him a hypocrite, when all that the Examiner did was to call attention to the hypocritical and deceitful terms in which the friends of Mr. Thomas W. Dodd drew up his electioneering circular. That circular stated as the only reason why Mr. Dodd sought re-election, that his seat had hecome vacated by “lapse of time.” The very first words of the document intro- duce the reader to an atmosphere of “ de- ceit.” Itsays: ‘‘Six years ago I had the honor of being elected to represent Char. lottetown aud Royalty in the Legislative Council.” Mr. Dodd, we can remember,
was elected fora broken term. Six years
have exhausted that term, and the words of the cireular are intend- ed to convey the impression that Mr. Dodd comes forward now solely
because the lapse of time’ has rendered an appeal necessary. Now, will the Patriot tell us that there is no reticence practiced here—no deceit—no hypocrisy? We do not charge Mr. Dodd with these crimes, but we charge the document to which his name is affixed as being deceitful and hypocriti- cal, inasmuch as it sets forth as the sole reason for Mr. Dodd’s action, what is not by any means the principal one. Mr. Dodd is the Treasurer and Secretary of the Davies Government, and therefore he must run an election, whether he will or not— whether the ‘‘ lapse of time” intervenes or not.
The Patriot pronounces a high eulogium upon Mr. Dodd’s honesty and integrity ; he is trotted forth as a sample of the hon- esty that sils in the Cabinet over which Davies presides—W. D. Stewart, for ex- ample. He is made to do the work of the one honest man who was appointed director to a bogus company — the light of his honor was expected to brighten the dark and equivucal character of the rest of the company. This, and nothing more, is Mr. Dodd’s mission in the pres- ent Government. Heartless schemers are making a tool of him. The Patriot handles him with the familiarity of an old acquaint- ance, and Mr. Dodd must be possessed of amore than ordinary refined reputation to undergo such usuage without tarnish or with impunity.
The Patriot further states that Mr. Dodd ‘‘would not support or connect himself in any way with a Government to which even the suspicion of deception or dishonesty could be fairly or reasonably attached.” Yet he has done so. The Davies Govern”, ment is not only suspected of deception and dishonesty,—it is openly and broadly accused of these crimes ; and if Mr. Dodd does not know it, he ought.
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Tse St. John Sun has the following in relation to the defunct Governments at Ottawa and Halifax. We are disappointed at not finding something relative to the defunct Government at Charlottetown. No doubt the writer has overlooked this mat- ter, and the omission will be supplied in next issue :—
Ottawa and Halifax have two defunct Gov- ernmepts on exhibition, and neither of them shows any disposition to get away from the
ublic gaze by retiring from the platform. They are both holding on after the people have emphatically told them to get out. Canada and Nova Scotia have overwhelmingly passed votes of want of confidence in their Ministers, and still they stick to office. The Ottawa con- cern will, it is believed, soon make room for those whom the people have declared for, but there is no hope that their Halifax brethren in affliction will follow their example. Shame may force Alex. McKenzie and his colleagues out of office soon, but P. C. Hill and his asso- ciates will stick to their places as long as pos- sible, and grab allthey can. Notwithstanding that the Government has been defeated dis- astrously, and all but oue of its members ho!d- ing seats in the popular branch kicked out of their constituencies, it has the assurance to mike appointments to the Legislative Council, and handle the public money as though it still ratained the confidence of the people.
_ Now this, we submit, is a case for the exer- cise of the royal prerogative. The Goveraor should take cognizance of the withdrawal of
pular confidence from the Ministry, and en oree the popular will by withdrawing his own confidence, and thus forcing the condemned Minister to resign at once. This is the real use of the prorogative. Itis a power which the sovereign holds from and for the people. —_—-_——» 000 o—_—_—_—.
A Frepericron, N. B., despatch of the 25th ult. to the St. John Globe, says :— Mr. Thomas Nason, aged 24 years, while in the act of splitting a stick of wood this morning, in, his yard, Brunswick Street, dropped dead. Coroner Macpherson held
an inquest, and a verdict of ‘‘ death from
natural causes ” was given.
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The ‘“‘ Bloody Shirt” in Politics. (From St. John Telegraph. )
‘ux world moves after all, and politica parties now and then are forced to abandon the old weapons which have served them well in former years. The Presidential campaign of 1876 was fought out by the Republicans on the ‘** bloody shirt” issue. Tal
tured to suit
ithern outrages were mannufac- the occasion, and the most
harrowing pictures were drawn of the con-
sequence hich must ensue if the Demo- crats gotinto power. The politicians on the Republi ‘an stde this yeur comune need to felt their —p litieal battles under the same banner, and wafted aloft the ‘* bloody | shirt.” Itwas under this time honored
flag that the Bangor ‘‘ Whig” undertook to
carry on the conflict in Maine, but wunfor-
tunately the result was not such as to an'
swer the hopes of the Republican party. The Republican party in Maine were badly beaten and Republican managers every- where were nearly frightened out of their immediate necessary and that
senses. It was seen that an
change of front was some better flag must be found to fight un- der than the ‘* bloody shirt.” The Boston ‘* Advertiser which was waving the flag as vigorously as anyone a short time ago, thus sportively alluded to it on Saturday :—
Mr. Wm. E. Chandler, who appears to be in a very unhappy frame of mind, has written a letter to the ‘‘ Traveller” ina mournfully indignant strain, to complain because the Republicans are making the question of honest money the paramount issue. He begins to despair of things, and ejaculates, ‘* forgotten are the horrors of Andersonville !’ The grand declaration of Mr. Blaine that this is ‘‘ the question of questions,” and that everything else must wait until it is settled, is almost the finish- ing blow to Mr. Chandler; and to-day, for he must have read Mr. Conkling’s speech, actum est,—itis all over with him. Mr. Chandler has been left behind with a large stock of ‘* bloody shirt’ on his hands. He seems to think the Republicans of Maine made a mistake because they were beaten. Fortunately there are few others who think as he does. The Republicans of Maine have clear consciences, and they will have the applause of all true men for having made a noble and gallant fight for right and
honesty. As for Mr. Chandler, he is to be pitied. All his old friends have deserted him. One champion of ‘* political liberty
and equal rights,’ as he phrases the issue, is stumping Massachusetts for Butler, with « Democratic nomination in his pocket, with soft-money thoughts in his heart, and and with lies about the State Government on his lips. Butler, too, has forgotten al! about the bloody shirt. Mr. Chandler would attract attention if he would rise a solitary flag-pole on Mount Washington and hoist there the sanguineous ensign which none but he is left to flaunt.
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Canada First.
(From the Toronto Mail. )
There is no doubt that in lettering our department of the Paris Exhibition with Indian work, canoes, snow-shoes, moose heads, tobogganing apparatus, sleighs, pel- tries, and other evidences of savage life in North America, we have repeated an old blunder that has already lost us thousands of immigrants and millions of capital. European geographers and writers on the European press are notoriously ignorant of this country. So far as their reading ac- quaintance with the climate goes, they sup- pose it to be a cross between Siberia and the Highlands of Scotland; and their knowl- edge of our physical resources and popula- tion is just enough to lead them to believe that the vast territory is peopled, where it is peopled at all, by nomad Indians pur- suing the buffalo, and a few white men leading the life of Captain Mayne Reid’s voyageurs. There may be some excuse for their ignorance, but there is none for our confirming them in it by exposing the implements and produce of savage lite at every World’s Fair that comes along in the place of honor in our department. The Figaro of the 9th inst. contains a marvel- lous account of the Dominion, founded on the Canadian display. The writer says gravely that the Canadians surpass all other North American nations, even the nation of Newfoundland, in their collection of do- mestic goods, such as the sleighs in which they travel the year round, and the buffalo robes with which they defy King Zero. Then again they have a magnificent display of lacrosses—sticks with netting of rein- deer skin with which they play a game known as lacrosse with their Indian neigh- bors—and of heads of elk, deer, moose, buffalo and other animals of the chase com- mon to the Arctic regions. They exhibit many excellent machines, and appear to be expert as craftsmen, but no doubt such goods are only manufactured in the thinly no tlated settlements adjuining the United Siates. And there is much more of the same sort.
Now, whatever we may be, we are not wholly savage, and there is no valid reason why we should advertise ourselves as such.
From time immemorial, however, we have ,
been doimg so. thiaks of sending his photograph to hs maiden aunt in England unless he be taken in the character of a genteel young Sitting Bull, with a fur coat and a fur cap, snow- shoes lying at his feet and a covering of snow—i. e., the photograph man’s table
-salt—sprinkling his outer garments and
making the poor woman believe that her
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best pictures, those bought by English visit- ors here, usually represent a solitary and dissipated Indian leaning ov an old gun and
1 | sorrowfully contemplating a boundless waste
of snow. If it be a painting of Cana- dian seenery, then the scene is laid on the > Lake Superior with huge uaked cliff: or a few gaunt ] trees towering abovethe same old Indian. Doubt- tess ere this a painting of the Neebing
foreground
north shore ot
Dine
Hotel with Adam Oliver in the is hanging in some British drawing room or study, bearing false witness against the p! asant wk woods-
wrong. We cannot bring Euro] the “Provincial Exhibition or our township fairs and so con- vinee it that the Canadians are not only a civililized but a highly civilized and a well at least we can make an end of this self-slandering. When the next World’s Fair is held, let us make no special effort, as we did at Philadelphia and ave doing at Paris, to satisfy the rest of mankind that Canada is chiefly devoted to lredskins and snowstorms ; and, above all, let the private system of deceiving our British friends by the wintery photograph fraud and the lone savage travesty be dropped. It is not patriotic, and besides it doesn’t pay.
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bund Administration..
The question of whether an Adminisira- tion in articulo can or ought to make ap- pointments, is being widely discussed just now in the Ministerial press. A day or two after the election it was announced that Mr. McKenzie would make no appoint- ments, when forthwith Ottawa was invaded by an army of office-seckers demanding shelter and refuge in the public service from the storm that has* destroyed the Party. Since then the Premier has been in a state of siege—he refusing to go against his con- science, they pressing him at every point to make an ignoble surrender. The Ottawa ‘¢ Free Press” hired, no doubt, by the be- siegers, has devoted its columns to articles showing that the Administration would not be acting contrary to precedent in making its friends comfortable in its dying hours. Nobody, so far as we know, would object were Mr. McKenzie to provide for a few of his personal retainers. Common charity disarms objection. They have worked hard for office, and it would be a sad sight to see them robbed of their object on the eve of a dreary Siberian winter of Opposition. But when it comes to the appointment of high officers of State, of Lieut. Governors,Judges and Senators, it is quite another thing. There is a case in point, the mention of which may, perhaps, strengthen the Pre- mier in his resistance to the rabble at his door. In 1874 Mr. Gladstone was defeated in a general election by a majority of ninety in a House of nearly seven hundred members. He did not care to meet Parlia- ment under such circumstances, but re- signed almost immediately after he’ had as- certained the extent of the disaster. Just before resigning, however, he appointed Mr. Palles tothe chiefship of the Irish Court of Exchequer, and created three or four new peers. This evoked criticism from some of the Conservative journals, although the Pall Mall Gazette was the only one which treated the matter as a grave offence against political ethics. The Lib- eral journal defended the out-going Pre- mier, and their arguments are now being produced by the Ottawa organ. But the ‘* Liberal” journals in this coun- try took a stronger ground against him than the most rabid of the Tory papers in England. The Globe on the 13th March, 1874, had an article on the subject in which, after reviewing the case, it reached this conclusion: ‘‘It is to be re- gretted that Mr. Gladstone’s resignation of the seals of office was not made the occasion of setting an example in regard to this matter to all subsequent Administrations, home and colomial. It would have added greatly tothe renown of the ont-going Ministry, had they laid down the principle that offices of honor and emolument ought not to be disposed of by a Government con- scious of no longer enjoying the confidence of the people. ‘This principle would apply not only to such appointments as that (Mr. Palles’) to which exception has been taken, but to all action with a view to the advance- ment of those who have rendered Party service.’ This was high, sound doc- trine, and if it applied to Mr. Gladstone it applies to Mr. McKenzie. If the former was wrong in creatinga Chief Baron, how shall Mr. Brown defend Mr. McKenzie i he appoint Judges, Senators and even Lieutenant Governors? Our contempor- ary, in the same article, laid down this doc- trine: ‘‘ What ought to be done is to es- tablish as a principle—departure from which in any case is an act of political immorality —that so soon as an Administration de- termines on relinquishing the reins of power, its patronage ipso facto lapses.”
Such is the opinion of the highest autho- rity known to Mr. McKenzie. Todd is good, and May is good also, but Brown is asupreme. The latter, it will be seen, holds that a moribund Administration should not in any case undertake ‘‘ action with a view to the advancement of those who have ren- dered Party service,” but the Opposition will not hold the Premier so closely to the book 13 that. They wiilbe more liberal than 1is master, and if he content himself with shelving 2 few of the more meritorious of those wretched ones to whom the cold shades will be death, there wili be no carb- Bat let there be reason in it.—T'oronto Mail.
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A Whitby authority on the subject esti- mates the total barley crop in Canada at
sister's son is living in a region of perpetual | 5,000,099 bushels, ciassified as follows :—
winter, although the raseal is probably | No.
sweltering among the nineties. This is a
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1, bright barley, weighing over 48 ibs. imperial bushel. . ..1,000,000
most grievous fraud to play upon a dear) No. 2, slightly stained.......... 1,500,000
relative, and, moreover, it is treason to Canada. It is the same with many of our artists, who should know better. Their
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No. 3, badly stained or shrunk. . .2,000,000 Rejected, very badly stained, shrunk or spronted............ 500,000
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LADIES’ ESTABLISHMENT,
TEXHE LADIES will find a splendid assort- : ment of English and French Millinery and Faney Goods at the above.
Ch’town, Oct. 1—
WE ARE NOW SHOWING
The Largest and Best Selection
wane or—
LADIES MANTLES
(FrRENcH AND GERMAN MANUFACTURE)
IMPORTED THIS SEASON. G. DAVIES & C0.
Ch’town, Sept. 50—pat Gi eod
GHEAP STOVE PIPE
The Appointing Power of a Mor- |
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WILLNER’S TIN SHOP.
Sept. 28—6i wkly 3i
PROVINCIAL ixhibition and. Cattle Show, SUMMERSIDE, OSTOBER'2 & S.
TRAIN ARRANGEMENTS!
URN TICKETS TO SUMMERSIDE PAY will be issued on Ist, 2nd and 3rd, at SINGLE Fares, good to returm up to and on 4th October.
A special train for the carriage of Steck will leave Charlottetown at 6.45 a. m. on 2nd, call- ing at all regular stations.
The express train leaving Tignish at 1.50 p- m. on Ist will carry Stock for the Exhibi- tion.
Machinery and articles intended for exhibi- tion must be forwarded the day previous to the opening. 7
Live stock and all articles intended for ex- hibition, having paid freight to the Fair, will be returned free of charge, provided owner- ship has not been changed.
JOHN GAFFNEY, See. to Com.
Sept. 27—
Beliveau. Albertite & Gl Co,
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-_- a meeting of the Directors of the Beliveau Albertite & Oil Co., held in St. John on the 24th inst., a further call of 24 per cent. on the Subscribed Stock was ordered to be made, payable on or before the 25th of October, at the Bank of Montreal, Moncton ; to William Patrick, Manager, or to E. B. Chandler, jr., Dorchester. By order, (Signed) cE. B. CHANDLER, Secretary.
Prince Edward Island please pay into the Bank lottetown.
Stockholders will of P. E. I., Char-
WILLIAM PATRICK, Manager. Sept. 28, 1878-
THE NEW
WALTHAM WATCHES.
JUST RECEIVED BY
E. W. TAYLOR
are much better value for the money than the old style. CALL AND SEE 'THEM. CYLINDER AND PATENT LEVERS from $8 to $10, all warranted.
A handsome Chain given with every Watch > oe
at TAY LORS, South Side Queen Square, Sept. 1S.—3w staw
Wants, Lost, Found, St.
Advertisements under this heading, in space not exceeding half an inch, will be wsert. ed for Ten Cents per day.
Be WANTED—To run messages and tend a horse. Apply at this Office. Oct. 1—3i :
OST, STRAYED OR STOLEN — From a Pasture near Spring Park, a jet black
HORSE. The finder wili be rewarded by giving the necessary information at this Uffice.
Ch’town, Sept. 30—2i
OR SALE—A TOP BUGGY, built by Scott—strong and in good condition, suitable for a farmer or country clergyman, at less than half price. Apply to PAUL Mc- PHAIL, Carriage Builder. Ch’town, Sept. 30—10i
GENTS WANTED—! want two live 4<& men in each County, to put in Tubelar Wells and fit up Pampsin dug wells. Team and outfit furnished. Must be well recom- mended. Call on or address C. C. JONES, Charlottetown.—£® Send for Circular.
Sept. 25—1m
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IS78 AUTUMN Is7s
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PKUMS & Set
Grand Onening this Week,
AN ENTIRELY HEW STOCK
—-OF THE—
CHRIGEST GOODS !
Staple Dry Goods FANCY Gtads,
Wiillinery !
Direct importations, Substantial Stock, Wonderfully Low Prices, NO AUCTION GOODS,
NO TRASH,
NO HUMBUG, But First-Class Goods in every Department,
a=” Call and be convinced that we are giving the best value in Dry Goods in this City,
FOR CASH ONLY. PERKINS & STERNS.
GRAIN BAGS! GRAIN BAGS!
BY BALE OR DOZEN, CHEAP FOR CASH,
—~AT THE—
LONDON HOUSE!
Ch’town, Sept. 23—pat 4i eod
The Provincial Exhibition
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AGRICULTURE & LOCAL INDUSTRY
WILL BE HELD AT
SUMMERSIDE, PRINCE COUNTY,
On Wednesday and Thursday,
October 2nd and Srd, 1878. Amount of Premiums, $1,372.25,
COMPETITION OPEN TO THE WHOLE PROVINCE.
N addition to the Cash Prize offered for the
‘*Best Cow and Calf,” a Statuette, in
bronze, of a Cow and Calf, the gift of Rebert Wilkes, Esq., of Montreal, will be awarded.
Prize lists may be had on application to Mr, George Lewis, Market Clerk, Ch’town ; J. R, McLeaa, Esq., M. P. P., Souris; Hon. D, Gordon, Georgetown; Benj. Rogers, Esq.. Alberton.
The Drill Shed will be open on Monday, Sept. 30, and Tuesday, Oct. Ist, for the re- ception of goods, with a man in charge to take care of all articles delivered there.
The Cattle Show and Exhibition will be — on ne: 2nd, October. The plowing match and testing of farming imple- ments on Thursday, 3rd Getthen: an -
All articles for the Exhibition must be en- tered and delivered at the Drill Shed, Sum- merside, on or before Tuesday, October Ist, or up to 9 o’clock the morning of the Exhibiti at which hour, sharp, the doors will be ¢ for the Judges to commence inspection. The live stock must be entered and on the cattle grounds at 10 0’clock, a. m., on Wednesday, October 2nd, at which hour the Judges will commence business.
No prize will be awarded for farming im- ae until tested. All implements must
entered and on the trial grounds before 10 o'clock, a. m., on Thursday, October 3rd. All entries for ploughing match must be made and teams on the ground before 10 o'clock, a. m., Thursday, October 3rd.
Exhibitors are i ly requested to take notice that it is absolutely necessary, and posi- tively required, that all entries be made on or before the time above specified, in order to afford the Judges sufficient time for the dis- charge of their duties. .
Arrangements will be made with the Rail- way authovities for the usual reduction in
fares. JOHN GAFFNEY. See’y 0° Commissi ? Sept. 23, 1878—~
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