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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1900-11-1, Page 108 THUMDAT, NOV. 1, 1800. M THE SIGNAL : GODERICH ONTARIO. NOW THE TORIES WON ELECTIONS 1 WHEN RASCALITY REIGNED! The Constituencies Were Carried by Ballot-Stuffers. CROOKED WORK BY CROOKED MEN 1 The Work of the Machine in 1891-2-6—West Huron One of the Ridings Stolen by the Tories—A True Story of Election Rascality— Incriminating inating Documents. A number of Tory newspapers, notably port. Kyery rascality kve to the cot The Toronto News, bay• of late become I km rapt election agent most M brought Into greatly ecercieed on the question of electoral Dplay 1'o win the •Isotloo The voloe of the raining ebotor mast not be heard his yot. purity. That the ea, redneof the ballot mast be wrenohed from him by hook or by creek—with the accent on the crook. How did thee" Instructions from the Tory elec- tion buses. bo the deputy [*turning officers become kouwn' Through the ouutts. In • 1896 an eleotioa was pending in the coo- • stliamoy al Jlaodonald, Man. hotheaded Boyd, of Mamma, was the Tory candidate, sad he was opposed by Charles Braithwaite, g a Patron, and Dr. Rutherford, the Liberal . candidate. Boyd wanted every kind of as - 'Warms •istanoe and the Conservative election mac• ager. sent up one Freeborn, who oarriad with him written Instructions from them suggesting his line of action. The instruc- tions were those above gtven and were pro duoed in the Manitoba Doors, where several of the orlminahr 000fsesed their guilt, prose outdone were entered again a others and • number were convicted. When Freeborn called upon Nat Boyd, the Tory candidate, and, presumably, laid out the plan of cam Deign, ttoyd appears to have bad a doubt as to the bona fides of his newly arrived o•mpalgn assistant, and he Immo t ►rely wired the Tory head of the -push on that Point, w which the following reply was telegraphy -1 "Toronto, May 0, 1896. "N Boyd, "Neepawa — "Hs was • first cies" mac in North Brous should be preserved loviolate goes without 'eying, but that the Tory n.wspepers, and pertioularly those of the stripe of The Tor. onto News, should aim to be the caretaker of pubilo morale V something to mak angels weep and mortals Imagine val Wilms.. The News has bsoom• the wespin willow of the Tory prise along this line sod is anxious to do .vary thing in ita power, so 11 ways, to get at the bottom o election raeoality and expose the fraud wh 11 hes lifted he head, It goes so far as to "ay that anything that may be said on the platform by pubho speakers will obtain the publlolty of lar column", end 11 bas lavieed Mr. Rowell, the able young Liberal candidate 1a East Toronto to express his views, so teat it may, he enabled to pre not them to Its readers. So that The News may have something definite oo bal- lot staffers and 000abltusnoy thieves THI SIoNAI. will give • brief and truthful story e1 the origin and growth of Abe bsllot,stud.r under the wing of the Tory party, aided and .betted by C•btn.t Ministers and front \ beach members in the late Tory Adminis- bretion. In 1878 the Maoksorie liovsroment was overthrown, owing to the hard times that prevailed, and oo the promise of good times ender the National Pettey. to 11582 the Tory (iov.rnmeet was .u.tsin•d, not on its merits, but beoaase of the elfiesey of the Retry =seder. In 1887 the Tory tenon wee saved by the •ppolnrm•ot of revising bar. rioters to sestet the Gerrymander Act. In 1891 no new legislative iniquity could be de- vioed to aid and armlet the party In power, and the Tory managers found themeelve. up *gaunt a bard proposition. Sir John's mental and physdoal powers bad failed 000- e fderebly, and It was feared that the fatigues of • polltioel ampalgn would over tat his strength. A hurry call was sent *otiose the ANaotio to Ylr -earl** Tupper, who was then the Canadian Commissioner In Britain. Slr Charles responded to the call and actually became the head nod front of the Tory campaign of 1891. It was to Hilo pvlttleal light and ander Tory auspices that bee ballot staffer and the 'twitcher became a factor In Canadian polltioe, but the work was not redoord to a solemn w ell the following year, when the holding of bye alsction• consecutively by t he party then In power enabled them to perfect a "political machine," whioh moved from 000stltusooy to oonstltuenoy and by the std of unscrupulous mea and a plethora of money carried everything before It, A bye election was held in West Iluron le 1892, and the Hon. J. C. Patterson ana She late Hon. M. C. Cameron were the candidates of the rival parties. Our read• ars w14 not need to be reminded of the oaraival of political corruption oo that oc- aealoo. Every effort penlble to debase and degrade • oonatitaenoy was resorted to by the mac who were esot into the 000stituenoy on behalf of the Pory party. Speakers, boodle!, b•Ilot•stufan, personator• lad *vary possible oampdollower of the political machine flooded the riding and fought down Weir opponents, who comprised local men working with local methods. The Monts - gees, Birmlaghsm, Moyers, Cochrane", Andy Ingram, Freeborn', Waste, and w ares of others were up and down the baok streets and 0000e -ion limn, and on election day a Dumber of strangers took possession of oarMln polling -booth■ and noted In various eapseialss deign, the day. Then tar the first time in Huron politics did it leseem* known that • plane} pottttsat nu o ilty had been worked out whioh was destined to beoome notorious In the 1'rn• vino@ of Manitoba later on. The following ttestreotioos were given to the workers "We have the prIntins of the ballot., therefore a sufficient nomher should be printed esus to enable the deputy re• turning ofticar to bay. them marked tor our oendidate and ready to use after the count to repleo• theme read nut wrongly to the scrutineers. Or the deputy re turning Otiose can have them marked and folded in his pocket to illp into the Age in plane of an opposition ballot If the op portenity happens. This. of course, will occur yaks lwy of both scrutineers. "To get oonbrol of both sorutineets have ens of our men, not • prominent one, but a supposed kloker, forte* nos, apply to the opposition to he put oar as scru'i•• e ar inside. They are gee • •'ly short of workers. and • few p' .t1 moo wUi earn the election In • . e oonstitueooy. Or the man oan write to their headgear hers for sorubineer papers If he lives In the ooenbry. 'Kfforts should he mads to maks these methods work In wards Ihab give the beayfest opposition vote. "Having control of both scrutineers, • large rote o•o be polled—dead and absent voters, etc., ran hays their ballots marked —there 1. no redeem ; If both sorutleoere were penitent. "A friendly oon•b file should he pram M keep the poll oleer of loungers end Im- golslgy people. "The deputy returning oMoer should In • reliable, sharp and plan■Ible man, so Shall i1 we de not get oontwol of the eppo- slalom sorutinesr, he can, when the coenting-ohne aufvsa, ask both sorotin- •ere bit taks a piens of paper and record the qts of their candidate" as he reads this ballots, whioh have been emptied on site table H. will thee have a chums to read oat wrongly, se that. • majority can he *seared for ear oudld•to. The ballots sbsesd be pet beak lobo the box as golek- 1J, as they are read. The extra ones will A. M A. thing" emrrerotly when hs gens bean.. "Spelled ballet• can be made sere by a little &louring. Oppeelalen Imitate San be spelled by the lead nab of • lead pen - MI fastened ends, the 11111. defer wit% balmiest, drawn aerate opposite Ser San. Ablat's nam. 1n opening the hellob. "If yen loam. 'rot *entre! of oppssftlnn •reetinsere, haw* year d.pety renaming *Moan lumen me• that he i. ageless yen, .e se be lead hiss astray 11 possible." Than is so wasOrttho was/ about these' istreaMens. now lo as ebb•kla the tee - "Robert Blrmbughem," This telegram must have quieted the Mr. Holme®. has Qualm of coo.otwos that Nat Boyd had dilute• given by Sir Rtobard Cartwright In London .bowfog the large increase of spoiled ballot* to that year, as against the spoiled holluts lar 1891, is etroeg evldeoce. The paragraph of Freeborn's lostruotlon• rely ttv. to "doctoring" the ballot• "with lead peuuil fastens -1 under the little linger with tee.%sr' had evidently hie° added news lbdl, wltb the following result to the ton. stltuenoles named Krol"; 1891 1896 1.tatbtoa, Kest....... 11 133 l.isoole 62 136 Loodoe... . 29 293 Muskoka 17 176 129 115 164 129 101 114 145 167 166 101 133 116 103 126 120 140 215 189 167 304 Twenty four ridings. 541 3,658 And these are tis renal* who are today prating about electoral purity. and who want to have the eaoredne, of the ballot kept Inviolate ! So anxious were they to do this thatootwithstending the wording of their own Instructions "Having oontrol of both scrutineers, a large vote can be polled—dead and absent voters ono have their ballots marked— Til kite is No Rink/AN,0I. BOTH tn.'gt•TbN mot,' unite 1'KeheNT," They pet the oouotry to the tr.uble and expense of a parliamen tary Investigation In the ones of West Huron, promising that If an investigation were given they would till the jell with guilty deputy returning otboere. The re- sult is kouwn. The oomntry was put so an srpen•e of 412.000 ; ninety nine witnesses were exam,ned under oath, and not nae deputy returning officer was even threaten. ad with arrest. Tills le the Iron story of the ballot thieves and The To b Nowa dare not publish It. Five yell more of good t• lme8 Perth, youth 17 Prince Edward ........ 23 Waterloo, Routh. 21 Wellington, ()emtre. 1h York, North 30 • Norfolk, North 17 Addington 21 Bothwell , 11 Brant, .Youth 23 Brookville - 29 Hruoe, Rask 8 Bruce, West 18 Cornwall 28 Grey, North 10 Haldimand 65 Hastings, North 7 Kingston 28 K eat 27 Welland 16 Wentworth ... 8 • ne good ding for Freeborn Immediately went to work In work at Ottawain a the contest, oo the lines laid down In the -to -the interests - .`--_ s '� Isbruoblons, and eventually leaded In pill, of l hIliB with others stituents. Reward him b lfiany proof were necessary that addition• V1II him your vote 'next al rasoallUes were parried out by the Tory g1 g party, under the Tapper regime l0 1896, is. Wednesday. THF BOLT OF 1890 RECALLED. AT Carleton Place Zest 'Thursday Sir Maceesizrg f3owgt.t. merle a tierce at tack upon Hou. JonN HAuuAur, who it seeking re-election in the eon•titu ency in which Carletou fusee is situ atod. Sir 111ACICKNZIg stated that he had studiously avoided doing anything that would injure the party, but as there were two Cousertative caudi dates in the field he would do all be could to defeat .1onN IIAuuAgr. "Nothing in the world would induce me," he said, "so long ad I have any soli respect, to be found on the same platform with this man and others 1 would name were they here, advocat- ing the same cause as they." "There is no name that is held in greater contempt by Western Ontario than the name of Hon. JOHN HAouefer and one or two others. Whether I ever used the expression, 'the nest of trait- ors,' or not is immaterial, for I cer- tainly should hive used it. Joss IHAGOART may have brains, but if he only had applicability and, above all, honesty, he might succeed." As long as he had a voice left, lion. JOHN HAaaART and sonic others should never occupy a sent in a Cabinet in this country. Hon. Jo116 HAGo.a11T was present and produced a telegram from Sir CHARLRH TUPPi6 as follows: "Have telegraphed Howell urging him not to go to Carleton Place. 1 wish you every success, Charles Tupper." The breach in the Conservative party has not been healed. HA0OART and the others to whom EilhI ickgn- zis BOwgtL refers are identified with Sir CHARLBN TUPPER, and yet the people of this country ere asked to re' turn to power a party whose leaders have no confidence in one another. The interest, of Goderich • be best sereeeM�i by the re- te of Robt. td-- itc.c.A.p....1/4 14.41J.,.a.... vf (rat.rt /44-0,tc '117, a+4-�ip-A.• 41 2a'dime ,rjte-(. /�../y,!Ja� ` �-.A ' • . f`- .ays-. P cati.�SG-'!f4 �-"i^�'�t>- i rai !/ _J.� a i 4 --As e ,el; 4 61, evt• , ae v tt ilt;-i-aa 4- .e. 1-7,...—....: 4-- 4.4/4—...". 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FOR WEST HURON : ROBERT HOLMES The Interests of Our Coun- try Demand lheir Your vote will do no good in Weat Huron unleaa it is marked thus ROBERT HOLIES, 1 of the Town of Clinton, in the County of Huron, Newspaper Publisher. ROBERT LLEAN, 2 of the Town of thelerich, in the County of Huron, Cattle Dealer. to get back to power. _Elec- tors Of West Huron, are you going to help them ? • Five years more of peace and prosperity. Five years more of good wages for the workingman. Foam T 2. ISIS BLANK TO BE-VSED FOR COMMYRCIAL MESSAGE ONLY Manitoba &North-Western Railway Co's Telegraph. ri.ted Ow., Slant Torso T 1. which teres snit conditionc have been .rted hp the sender sf the follow,* inessigt No. Time Frew WN • SENT SY Ile may 111 90 osit ▪ u. The above is a fee simile of the original telegram which was sent to Fat. Boyd, the Tory candidate in Macdonald, Man., in 1A96. A Tory worker named Freeborn, • brother of Dr. Freeborn, Mrincrly of Clinton and now, we - understand, of Muskoka, was sent to Manitoba to do the Tory mschine act there. When he reached the con- stituency of Macdonald, where Boyd was a candidate, ond outlined hie plan of campaign, Boyd was seized of a desire to got a political bill of health for the new Arrival anti telegraph's] to Toronto for the bona fides of Freeborn. The answer, wax : "Toronto, May 20, 189f1.—N. Boyd, Neepawa.- -He was a firotrclasa man in North Bruce. —BOHIPT BIliMINGHAII." The cut is taktm from the telegram that was produced in court, and which wee Sworn to am a court exhibit. Mr. R. L. Richardson, now running se the antigovernment eanrit date in Lisgar, stated On the floor of the House that he had the original docunient in his potwession at one time Five years more of trade expansion. Five years more of ,the growing time for Canada. rirmers, a vote for McLean is a vote against the prefer - sale of Canadian bacon, hams, butter and other prodneta, of the farm has increased mar- vellously in the British mar- ket! Vote for Holmes and a continuance of high prices. THE MOST TALKED OF PLAY IN AMERICA. THE SOCIETY EVENT Thi; is fa&-Amile of the original instructions gives, to Freeborn, and produced in conn at the trial of the ballot. AufTers in the eonstitnency of Macdonald, Manitoba, and sworn to as a genuine document when the ballot staffers were convicted. Fneborn admitted on trial that he and others had received the "instructions" from the Conservative organisation In Toronto. The same instructions were ia tone in the Tory "maohine campaign" in 1592, when J. C Patterson was seated in West Huron, and Pridhem was seated in South Perth. Neither et them men was eleoted. The seats ware VICTORIA OPERA HOUSE Friday, Nov. 2nd 1 EIA P110 New York's raging sensation A Play in four acts and eight stenos, founded upon the novei of the Name name by Alphonse Dandet. Pro- dneed by an Australian Company of the greetest ability MR. A. 00MM/ink ree Jean, and Le Grand —Sapho — in the leading roles Plan now at Porter's Book Store. Iwo", A. Ole il-09,117, Rusitolou urfunn BRAITHWAITE ,, -see fferioare himutwf• Frew. RUTHERFORD J... Gun.' seseo,ottlWtorru This in a fac-simile of one of the ballots marked for the I Thera! candidate in Maorionald, Man., in 1295, which Freeborn arimil .1 never got into the box, but was "switched" and another ballot marked for Boyd snlo. atitated sod painted. This is a far -simile of the bogus ballot prodnoid in eourt daring the Mar demotic! election trial in Manitoba. It woo substituted Mr the gennine ballot shown above. In taking the photograph this it will he mon that the ballot is folded up f rom the bottom so that the initiaL of Freeborn are shown on the beak.