et a tee OE atc “ —— a ELECTION, 1900 ‘The Popular Candidates IN P. B. ISLAND ‘East Queen s, Alexander Martin | West Queen's, - W. S. Stewart East Prince, A. A. Lefurgey West Prince, Edward Hackett ' King’s, Austin C. Macdonald _——— } THE BRAVEL Humpty Dumpty ——EI¢ | Mutual Preferential Trade Portomime and Specialty Co. within the British Empire. i‘ ' CNL | Rebuke of Politicians who broke their pledges to the peo- ple — increasing expenditures is- PANTOMIME STARS-18 | "4 debt when they promised Bi 'to reduce them. 10—1G VAUDVILLE ACTS—10 THE BEST EI A MAJESTIC CONSOLIDATION OPERA HOUSE [wo Nights Only Friday and Saturday The Only Real Noveliy of the Season. POINTS IN THE ISSUE. by Mr. Chas. W. Ravel, the reat and Only Grimaldi. Heade | | Honest Government for Unit- ed Canada. | Down with Tarte and Tarte- LS. THE DA A hesc of Variety Features. All Special Triek Scenery A Ton of Fun for the Money. DON T FAIL TO Tae Fuovy Clown The Pretty Girls The Great Dancers Tbe Funny Comedians Tae New Tricks The Trick Donkey Mike Humpty Dumpty on the Wa, ILY: EXAMINER OCTOBER Il, i 3IUU NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY. A Show for the Old as wellasthe Youn g Cur Prices 25, 35 aud 50 ots. CN Tuts is the auniversary of the begin. ning of the war in South Africa. On this day,a year ago, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State invaied Natal and Care Colony—Bcritish territory. There are no Transvaal or Orange Free State ! Sixteen thousand soldiers of those wey Coe a oa at now . TdAE Di ILS EXAMINER CHARLIOCCTET OWN OCTOBER ® | result. ment is now equandering to prevent this A gentleman of charac'er resident in Ontario,who visited usa eho t | time sgo, ¢stimated that Sir Charles Tup- per would have a majority of forty from the country westof the line dividing Oo- high tario and Quebec; and we are assured by ‘@ prcminent gentleman from Toroato, ia Charlottetown today, that ‘Ontario wilt give the Liberal-Conservativ pariy “a | handsome majority, ” THE MATTER IN A NUTSHELL Here is section 67 of the Election Bil: of 1900: “In the Province of Prince Edward Isl« and if any person desires to vote whose right to vote is ol} -cted to on the ground ot want of quel fication, aud if a candidate orany agent of acandiaate so objecia in : Dominion the presence of the elector, t) Deputy Re turnin Office rim addition to placing iT is initials on the back of the hallot paper, as wrovided by section >0 shall also place on : . ‘ i ithe back the reof a number corre sponding to | that place 1 opposite the rote rs cm in thee |poll book; ana such person having taken, if required, the oaths prescribed by this act aud the Jaws of the Province, and hav~ ing otherwise complied with the require- ments Of the law, shall be entitled to res ceive such ballot paper and to vote.” Sir Louis Davies and the Patriot eay that the words which we have placed in italics destroy the secrecy of the baliot. If so Sir Louis did the job, because the words in question were not copied from any former Act; but were ineerted by the Government inthe original Bill and de- clared On the face of the Bill to be* new matier,” Here is sub-section 5 of section 96 with Sir Louis Davies’ attempted amend- — brackets : “« No candidate, officer, clerk, agent, or apy otber person, shall communi- mation as to the number on the back of the ballot paper given to any voter at a polling station except toa court or judge lawfully requiring him to do-so or attempt to asceriain atthe counting of votes the number on the back of any ballot paper [but this provision shall not epply to ballots marked in accardance with eec~ | THANKSGIVING —D, ae Excursion tickets ONE FARE for the Round Trip. Going October 17th and 18th, good) to return Octobkr 22nd, 1900. Tie Popular Route to Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto is via. St. John, N. }., and CRAADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. Superb Palace Sleepers e Magnificent first-class Coaches. Unexceiled Dining Cars. A. J. HEATH, BB. ©. hice 5 St. John, N. B W.C. KENNEBY, G.27.Ac P. B Charlottetown, P. EB. I. + RRS EET Er SE aaiiaiee die This would be had not nature s pplied us with the proper material t heat it. And what isthe carbon baterial worth if you do not havea p00 stove or range? The preducts | of combustion are never lost in one of | Or Ranges or stoves, Lu .ranteed, Dodd a ——————————— = =—=——<———————————— WAWTED, An ageut for Prince Edward Is! FOnt snb-agents, and take of Keeler-Kirkpatrick’s Mfi’g. lon:8 including the Nation hew edition just out, and £ & profits. Addres Merchants Bank, Moutreal, 1 week. DAY } tions 67 or 74 of this Act.’’] | The words in italice, wixich the Patriot ! says destroys the secrecy ot the ballot, States are at present prisoners under Brit- ish surveillance. The Presidents of both States are fugitives. Buta few scattered remnants remaio of the fully equipped and powerfal iorces which they brougat into the field one short year sgo to brave the Justice in Committe of the Senate, We shal] now eee whether Sir Louis and the Patriot will retract their utterly false charges against Senator Ferguson in regard to these rections. Honest }| would do so at oace. The facts are that neither sections 67 ' or 96, nor any other section of the Act, destroys ov weakens the secrecy of the ballot ; the only attack on that eecrecy was made by Sir Louis Davies in his at~ tempted amendment to eub-section 5 of eection 96 ; British lion. [no the meantime the people »t Great Britair, assisted by their colonies, ,erformed the unprecedented feat of traus- porting a great army of 2U0,000 mer, cver ea, a distance of 7,000 miles, maintainer ' men | } ng cOMmuUOdi cations ex'endirg for thous ~an.s of miles into the enemy’s country, and with little practical aid from their navy —the more powerful arm of their service —ih:y have beaten ail the Boers com- bined their own d fficult ground, ogether with all those—nota few—who weut to help the Bogre. This anniversary in the future career of the Br‘tish Empire. vais apes the defeat of that amendment ia the Senate preserved the secrecy of the ballot of ot jected votere during the counts ,iy } { i 401 oF . +: . will be a notxble a lng of votes ; the agent of Sir Louis or eA | | any other person is liable to a fine of t\ eo. ‘hundred dollars or imprisonment and hard | jlaborif he attempts dariog the counting ito asceriain how any numbered ballot has beeo marked, The Minisier of Justice’s amendment to jsub:section 5 of section 96 permitting tie +—"p © apo THE BELTING TRICK. Iv is reported tiat agents of the New Liberals are going through the Provinces oifering to‘bet big money on the success | lawful disclosure to acourt or jadge at of the Government in the coming election» 89 €:€ction trial as to how a vote haa been marked, cannot be the means of dieclos~ Tarte and Tarteiem, that Quebec will be jing how a qualified voter had marked his all but solid for Sir Wilfrid, that Nova/| ballot, as no judge could lawfally inquire Scotia and New Brunswick are going ‘9 | Sbout the marking of a ballot until tke . ie vote was proved to be bad, throw large Liberal majorities. If those P meu have Government money to squander, } declaring that Ontario is going to swallow — ede m a Ey ery one Rogers, and toap contro! o! the sale ‘o's publica. | al Encyclopedia, | other standard werks 3 permar ent employment azd large 8 Canxdian Cfiice, Room 519 —The Mcntreal Gazetie says that ‘in Nova Scotia votes are being sought for the Government cn the promise that Mr. | that is nota reason why anyone should b2lieve The idea of the great; Provinces of Ontario giving a majority in| Fielding is booked as Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s favor of the men who have broken all| succeseor in tke premiership, and that | their promises and who are milking the | when the change comes he wi!l turn Mr. } i ry c > | cow dry, is too absurd! We have no | Tarte out of the cabinet. Our contem i ; ! them. } } porary aptly remarks that those who wi:h ! | doubt that Sir Charles bas good grounds | to get rid of the master of the administra- | ‘or his helief that the Conservatives will} tion, however, bavea better way of eecur- | ing their end than by promoting a risky | wrestlirg match bei ween the Nova Scotia is | make gains in every province of Canada,aud | Obtain a substantial majority in spite of} and Quebec gladiators. | al che people’s money that the Govern» them both out It to turn | | | : ‘ ! | Around and see tle housekeepers who FURNITURE. are buying our) They buy here because they save from 10 to 25 p. ¢ Our stocks are very complete—and we are showing a |large number of new designs—never shown here before. istration have five years more of Tarte aod un- , still out in many fleids water wl ; that the pledge given to a community was , &®promise made to a private individual,” | Contrast that with Laurier, eee , ence between me und you is that ‘we are ment in smell type and within equace, here’—(in office) —‘and you are there’— | (in oOpposition),” cate at any time to any person any infor- | i bottle of Griffiths’ were not inseried by Senator Ferguson or] gtant is the Jaet at his suggestion, but by the Minister of | will be slowed ; also that the fo-ty daya | silowed for appeal will in many cases } ; Ay pry to | ‘ MARK WRIGHT & GQ.. LTD. ~—— CHE OSOE OS OO SEE OB SE Giwct SGayv HHAGAARAA CASS SHRRRRARARAH NOTES AND COMMENTS. — Let the vad Tarte-Laurierism admin- conge on the 7.h of November. — ()xestion for the electors :"**Shall we scrupulous Geverament ?” — How can Liberals who don’t | \ | | believe | in @ titled class in Canada vote for Sir Louis Davies ? -~It will encourage Farqaharson and | Pineau if Tarte, Biair, Sifton & Co should ! be successful on the 7:h of November. — We regret to note that stooks are! atthe westward | and that tom? fielda of jate oats are still | uocut. A grest deal of good grain hee} however been houred in excellent ccndi- 110n. ~The Summerside Journal says that the contractor for the Summerside break~ llhave toburry up and begin work orelse the Liberals will not get much good out of it at the coming election even Of they do“‘boom” it for all it is worth.” —Remember that if the present Gov- ernment should be sustained, the extrara- gant expenditures, increased debt, ins creased amounts taksn out of the pockets of the people, the falee promises and broken pledges wili all be endorsed and approved,—and the Government will re. ceive carte blanche to go ahead in the next Parliamentary term a3 they have gone in the last. Does anvone desire thi « ? —Premier Marchard’s last address to the people, prepared oa his deathbed, contains this statemeut: “I have con< stanily endeavored to discharge with scrupulous correctness the trust which I heid from you, for I never understood less binding on conscience and hoeor than who eays: “You tell us we have not carried out our pledges. Well, what ofit? The differ. It will pay you to keepa Menthol Liniment always in your house. It is good in any em-) ergency, and quick to cure any pain or ache. PERSoNS wishing to avai] themselves of the 5 per cent. disecount on Income Tax are reminded that Monday the l5:h ina day on which discounts —t coon expire. It 19¢0 undre ee Five Hundred Hate Ladies’ Hats Under Price They goat $1.00. colors, only $1.00. ; Handseme trimmed Golfiug hats, gi! 9 & THE BEST LOT OF AATS IN TOWN: SEE WINDOW. Just the bat for you madam, and it j All colors. New styles. High Grade $1 25, and $1.35 Fall Dress Tweeds &0 75 ots. S only $1.00, Sel] rt Hatdome from New York. Ey trimmed golfing or onting hat is here Mr, Paton made the selection, so that? tion, Seethem, They arrived direc ing, and are not high in price. Yuu sell them at the price, Jas. Paton & = ery fasbionable ] direct from New York 8 enough recommen, t by express thig m, will wonder how We " adies i A or" - — —_ — If PAYS TM BUY AT PERKINS’ TEV TV TTT TTT ee OUT T TT YT ITT 999TH, SWELL AUTUMN JACKETS NZ w ASKARARE GS ie STOCK OF LoticFeow of Them in our West Window BBO t GCS 064066 O28 ..2 28066886 Had these swell creations been obtained in the regular way they would have cost us —and you-—from 25 to 35 per cent more, but we got them at i, WATCHES ¢ You can’t find a more com- plete stock of watches in Goid Silver and Nickel. from 7 jewel up to 17 -jeweled movements than at G.H. Taylor's Visitors during Exhibition week will find in all linesa full stock with prices right. | | | ; i Sunnyside, i Queen{{Square. a KS & & oe KS oe oe ek de ot vt of om as i AFA ah gh gk ae ag a IS a EE TO LET. fices in New Prowse Bk Suite of front | Prowse £ros: | £099 996-0 0998 FO88 8OSCGOR Teachers 7 Attending the Convention, we would like you to caliin and look over a large line of “School Helps,” we have just received. No difference if you do not wish to buy, come in and see them. Ask to see our Wedgwaed Note Paper. CoV ASHE SDD OKOS SKDC CDOS MITCHLLU'S BOOKSTORE $ Q tea St Opp. Prowse’s, : GOL? 4 Ov00 2900 C000 teOs a snap—something very un- usual at the beginning of the feason—and you will reap the benefit if you purchase now. By so doing you will save money—Be the first to appear in the pretty fall etyle~ Have use of your garment the full season.—Qur prices will please you DBBQEBVASVSS 2OBYt OOFSBO448G 2242S ~8@e Bt G >_o~’- © © S- 0° & 8862202846746 03263 420868 ™ 2° 40607 e4eea4 $2608 422063808 ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. F PERKINS & OO. | The Millinery Le: vders. WG 25 bbls. Linseid Oil. 50 bbls. Portland Cement. For sale low, wbLOW W. Ci Stoves;and Hardware. Ch’towa, Sept, 17th, 1900. Walker's [rs 5