N Political fight delights editor

Newspaper editors took their politics seriously in earlier days and they often became more deeply embroiled in hot election. rampaigns than many of the candidates who were lonking for. election. l

The Patriot. which was viol- vnlly Liberal. and The Guard- .m_ w'iich was just as \‘iolently‘ (onservative. fought long and itter battles through their edi- .orial columns. times they devoted their entire_front ages 0 a single speech given‘ .ly the party leader.

(if all the periods of sharp pol- . ttcal controversy none could‘ possibly have been any moreI mttcr than the I930's when hothl icwspapers fought the political: ’anipaigns as t'iough their very ‘VlSlCI’ICC depended on their own warty winning the battle.

The fortunes of war had been fairly even up to the mid-Thir- ‘ies, with the Liberals winning ’ive provincial elections since won. and the Conservatives ’o r Conservatives ad ion the 1931 election when they alected 18 members to the Lib- -rals 12. and that set the stage. 'or the mid-Depression battle of '935. ‘

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Editor of tie Patriot at the. .‘lme was Reuben MacDonald. a man who gave a large part of- his attention to politics. Never' rould there have been a news-'

any more seriously. and he‘ Worked Inn: and efficiently at line task of supporting his own arty in the public eye. and ot fightin: off the attacks hurled

at the Liberals by the rival ('iiiarrl'an’s editorial page.

Leader of the Liberals at the Victoria farmer who was a capable de- bater and was widely and 'av-

oruhly known among the Is land's farm population.

Conservative leader was Dr II'..I.I". .\Iac.\lillan who Inoki

‘crnment. was i the. Liberals were do med

pancrman u ho took his politics: g “m.”

' Donn through the years ad .vcrtisinz has been a necessary part of newspaper publishing, .its main source 0? revenue. It ha- also been the m. d ' ii I1- tliroiizh which merchants told .thc people of the merchandise they had available.

Early Patriots told the story ot arrivals of ships from Eng- land and Scotland. the Unith Status and West Indies and re- lated the items of cargo and where they could be purehaseu

i Many sales re direci

lt'rom the. ships anchored along

'thc tlicn- busy waterfront an:' "IF wharves of that day were

i thronced with visitors.

‘ Back when Canada was in Erie making- Island merchants were adverr tising their wares and some of the names appearing then are still well known. Others have long since faded from the local scene but are nostalgically rc- called by old timers.

Among them was “I. Myriclt who was operating a fish mark- et on Grafton Street: . A Bruce. tailor: L. E. Prowse. dry

.goods: Apothecaries Hall (stilt

. lthere as the Hughes Drug 00.): F Hyndman. insurance

agent; Beer and Goff, grocers There were two large items

of farm machinery being wide-

;Iy advertised at the time and

jsome older farmers of todav

‘may recall hearing their par-

'ents or grandparents speak of

jthcm. They were the Hooswr

l Drill and the Randall Pulveriz-

Inz Harrow.

Over the years the volume of

. advertising increased and many new names appeared in Patriot pazes. Some of the old ones re- mained. The principal advertis- ers so years ago_ and 50 years after Confederation— included

i such remembered firms as Mor-

THE WINNER-COLIN MACNEVIN

In an era when athletics perhaps played its biggest part in Island life. not the least of the great events was The Patriot Road Race. Shown above are the contestants in one of the competitive battles in the early days of this century. Seated in the. centre is that year’s big winner, Colin MacNeyin.

How many others in the group do you remember?

REUBEN MacDONALD “g " Early next morning he. had a Junior member of his reporting ~ staff scanning the Guardian headlines — they had proclaim V ed after each series of nightly political meetings that the gov- ‘

to be returtiell I‘

0 me.

—for the reckless predictions of

victory. Then he reproduced » them in his own editorial co‘

umn with colorfully appropriate!

e. . Political victories have been ‘ enjoyed by many successtu“ 1; combatants over the years. but ' none could possibly have enjoy ed a victory any more than Mr Macdonald did that Conserva tive whitewash that was applied by Island voters on a warm summer day 29 years ago Mr. Lea continued in poor health. though he was able to

carat CHAMPONS

Great athletic names of the past.

OF THE PAST

many of them still

echoing down

make at least one trip to Ottawa through the present, are among those men shown in picture above of the . risi Sigith and 11Beer. 30y! Ind as Premier of the province. mill . w. 7 . . - . :‘ Eli‘s OOlS! A By an C0. he died early in January or me Charlottetown hiie Department in the years from 188.3 to 1900. Some of boots: A. Pickard and Co” coal. ("mowing year and T h a n 3 those in the photo arc thc'late Ptcmiei‘ and Senator J. \\ alter Jones, Lou lHughes Drug (30.. Bee“, " d Campbell succeeded him to [hgt MaCM-lllan, Toby MacMillan, Major I‘Iam Bethune and LlCUL. (jOl. A ‘Goff' grocers; Fogter' party leadership. ‘ acKinnon. Johnson and Johnson and H..I

’A century of advertisers

in Confederation yem‘

Mabon Co.. drugs. I‘he lanai firm. now u then. was in Mon

r. I

gue. Others included the .I.M. loop and Co. meat plant: Moore and

McLeod and Prowse Bros. de partment stores; and 6.1!. Tai- or. weller.

DOGGY COMFORT

OSTERSUND. Sweden «Al’iru City council here has decided to build 3 dogs‘ room in a down- town park. It is to be a 5-by-5< foot sandbox with a central. stone pillar. It will have a sign‘ over it saying “for your friend dog." Nine more are being considered.

CONGRATULATIONS

THE EVENING PATRIOT

ON THEIR

lOOih Anniversary

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ovcr leadership of the party and the Premier when JD Stewart father of the present .I I) Stew art, died in mid-term.

The Conservatives appeared to have one advantage at ‘ outset because Mr. Lea was III poor health. Indeed, he was con- fmed to his bed through most of the campaign.

But the mantle of campalpve

leader fell on Thane A. Camo- bcll of Summerside. then a‘ voun: man who is now ' it e

Chief Justice of this province.

Mr. Campbell did an outstatio- In: job of filling the the campaign was remarkain for the keen spirit of competi tion. as Dr. Mach‘lillan was to doughty fizliler and a llrf‘lcn canipaiziier who travelled all over the province to appear political meetings. and somehow always managed to turn up a ‘ his Premier's office next day lookin: like a man who had normal iiizht‘s sleep. l,

But of all the. campaiiznetsi none labored any harder. none?

. 'oit- rrrnecl than Patriot Editor Ron

hen MacDonald. His newspaper . for he was publisher as well as . carried the campaign to its climax which came with poll- I log day on .Iuly 23. 1935.

The (‘onservattwa had fought determinedly but as paign progressed It was becnin lng more evident that they were . The

brush. At meeting aft-er meetiii Across the rovince —- joint ‘ meetings were the. vogue I" those days— the vociferous sup ort given to the. Liberals Ind. atcd a change of government was more than likely.

But nobody. Including Mr MacDonald. ever. dreamed the result. would be a solid 30 Liber- al seats and a complete white wash for the Conservatives. But‘ that's exactly what happened.

Liberal supporters celebrated through the night what was ac- claimed at the time as [record win for the British Common wealth. But none could possibly have been any happier th s n Reuben MacDonald. the editor of the paper which this year I: observing Its tooth year of pub llcation.

The old Patriot office on Rim- mond Sire-ct was gay that night It a jubilant crowd of party tiipporters shouted their glee as they watched the results from all over the province he I n g marked up on it huge black- hoard.

At one stage It appeared that one Conservative would make “to grade. Harry Mclean of Moria was leading up the lust ‘ “‘3' poll: in his First Kings con~ : ll'tiicney But the final room " fond that there too a Liberal ‘ ad won the day. and the trtu mph was complete.

“when MacDonald was not. shouting loudly in his reaction ‘0 the unexpected degree of .he v "'lm’i‘ He was a diiiel Who absorbed ht! feelings o‘ h'lUlWh quietly. But none in van whole throng was more satis- fied—none could he - thnn tie Man who had taken the com 951!“ no serioust and lint

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