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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Thune aro a good uran3 people in
Bruce county who want to get into
the county jail_ According to the
Bruce Herald there are twenty -fine
applicants for the jailorship.
It is thought that President llar-
rison's forthcoming'message to Con•
grecs will recommend demanding
from Chili exemplary damages for
the killing of American sailors in
Valparaiso, and in the event of re-
fusal such refusal will be considered
tantamount to a declaration of war.
Regarding the investigation of the
assault on the Baltimore's crew at
Valparaiso, held last week at Val-
lejo, California, the San Francisco
Chrouicle says editorially : No one
can road the testimony of the sailors
of also Baltimore without feeling at
once that the subject of the Val-
paraiso attack has assumed a phase
that the hurt -cannot be cured by a
niere apology from Chili. It is
clearly the duty of the United
States to demand complete re.para
tion and suitable indemnity from
Chili, and to enforce the demand if
there is any hesitation in complying
with it.
The Grand Trunk Railway Com•
pany has formally taken over the
business of the Canadian Express
Company in accordance with Sir
Henry Ts let's statement at the last
meeting of shareholders and repeat-
ed by Gen.eras.Managpr.,S.eargeantbe-
fore the Ihailrviay• Commitittee of the
Privy Council. The business will
now bo known as the express depart-
ment of the Grand Trunk. It is
thought by many that this ohange is
s mere sham to prevent the Ontario
Express Go. getting running powers
over the G. T. C. In any event it
would appear to be the worst kind
of a monopoly, that a chartered rail-
way compay, that could never have
been built without the consent of
the people of this country, should
refuse to carry fast freight for a
regularly organized express corn
pany, because said railway company
owned an express company of their
own. By equality of reasoning if
the G. T. R. Co. had a flour mill in
Clinton they would have the right.
to refuse carrying wheat or flour
for the Fair mill because they, the
0. T. R. Co., were engaged in the
same business.
The bye election in Richelieu
came off last week and resulted in
the defeat of the Government sup-
porter by 104, though Sir Hector
Langevin had been elected at the
'general elections last March by a
much larger rnnjority, but being
also elected in another constituency
he resigned Richelieu. The chief
cause of the Conservative defeat is al-
leged to be owing. to the efforts of
T. McGreevy,who is preside}.t of the
Richelieu and Ontario Navigation
Company which has its head querters
in tho Riding. It has a great number
of people rn its employ and they
have their friends. Thos. Me•
Greovy appealed to these to "got
even" with a Government that wee,
ae he termed it, "persecuting
because they were prosecuting him
for an alleged conspiracy with the
Connollys to defraud, and by.Which
they did defraud, rho Government
out of large sums of money. Defeat
for this cause is certainly a moral vic-
tory in the truest and best sense of
the term. But it is also given out that
the Conservatives made a mistake
in selecting for a candidate in a
purely French bpeaking constitn
ency, an English speaking man not
at all in touch with the great mase
of the local electorate, although he
is a much abler man than the suc-
cessful Grit candidate. And here
is a pointer that the Conservatives
in Wrest Huron would do well to
ponder over. In selecting a candi-
date due care should be taken that
undue stress is not laid upon
"ability." What a candidate should
by all means possess is common
sense, not the ability to make windy
orations in or outside of the House.
It would certainly be a libel upon
the people of West Huron to say
that they have not among them a
man of iutelligonce and real ability
competent to represent them. We
could name scores of Conservative
farmers in West Huron who would
reflect credit Upon themselves and
their party if sent to PiirliatIent.
Men who by their knowledge of
municipal matters gained • by ex•
perience in township and cot}nty
council's would be real representa•
lives of the majority—the indus-
trial classes.
It is rumored that Mr. J. C.
Patterson ox M. P. for Essex is to
be made Postmaster General.
The trials of Thos McGreevy and
Nicholas Connolly, the alleged de-
fraut ere of the Government,,. have
been postponed until the spring
term of the court owing to the
absence of witnesses who are out of
the country. They were held to
bail in $10,000 each.
Oxford is going to have a House
of Refuge, the contract for the build-
ing having been let. At a meeting
of the West Zorra Farmers' In-
stitute the scheme was un-
animously endorsed, thus showing
that the farmers of Oxford• are not
opposed to helping their afflicted
fellow creatures.
BOSSING POLITICAL CON-
VENTIONS.
Political conventions are held for
a purpose. When a candidate is
required to represent Conservatives
in parliament, or at least to Beek
the suffrages of the electorate with
that object in view, a convention of
Conservative delegates,representiug,
or presumed to represent their poli•
tical friends in their several loc:,li-
ties, is called.
Such a Convention will be called
by the Conservatives in West Huron
in about two weeks.
Now, because of the unwilling-
ness of some swaggering, despotic,
self assumed, kid glove bosses we
are told that the people must not be
coneulted in the choice of a candi-
date, that the people, those who
make and unmake parliaments,shall
not he consulted. But that they
shall go to a convention like sheep
led to slaughter and before being
sacrificed swallow a cut and dried
pill prepared by those who assume
and presume to hose them.
These bosses are neither by their
occupation or knowledge of the
electorate at all in touch with the
great mass of the voters.
This is a democratic country.
The people must be .consulted or
disaster awaits the party. The•rnore
the people are token into the con-
fidence of party managers, the great-
er interest will they take in the
election of a candidate whoever he
rnay. be.
The idea of party bosses is. totally
repugnant to our Canarr,ian system
of responsible parliamentary gov-
ernment, which is theoretically car-
ried on aiu accordance with the
well understood wishes of the elec-
torate.
Every farmer who grows an acre
of wheat, oats, barley, peas or co-rn,
or who helps to make a pound• of
cheese or a pound of butter or who
raises'but a single head of cattle
ani who wishes to prevent the
price of his products from being
lessened by the immense surplus of
our neighbors,and who wiehee to
retain the best market—the British•
market—is an interested factor ru
selecting -and determining who shall'
represent him in perpetuating, en-
acting or amending our laws. Every
artisan and every laborer is equally
an interested sovereign factor who.
should be consulted in' matters af-
fecting the price of his labor. Alt
are interested and each one ie a
potent unit in determining the fate
• of a parliamentary candidate and,
should be eonaulted thereanent.
Party bossism at conventions may
do very well among the ignorant
Tammany thugs of New York, but
the thinking and intelligent elector-
ate of this country are not enamour-
ed of any such vicious system which
reduces the mass of its votaries to
the position of the veriest serfs,,
mere jacks in -the box who move
automation -like to the pull offstringe
manipulated by scheming bosses
who have ao interest in party suc-
cess save so far as it goes to serve
their own selfish ends or bat of
some dictatorial clique. The people„.
the massekTi►aving no interests that.
the bosses think worth while to con-
sult them about, to forward or con-
serve.
It has not been within the pur-
view of reasonable or truthful as•
sortlon to state that Conservative
conventions are run on New York
Tammany ,lines and we hope they
never will be so run. But to show
to what depths of abject political
servitude it is possible to reduce'
those who should represent the beat
elements of a party we shall take
the liberty of quoting from Harperr's
.Nevr York Weekly, a journal most
thoughtfully written in the most
non-partisan manner, anent the
degradation to which bossism has
reduced party conventions in bleat
city :
"It is the rubbish and slag,. who
are more puppets for the bosses who
fix up the nominating slate„ the
ranjk and file have nothing to say
about who shall represent them,
and their wishes are not considered
or consulted.”
Now what has happened may
happen again unless a note of warn-
ing is sounded by those who have
the best interests of the party and
its grand principles at heart. And
though we run the risk of being
misunderstood we feel constrained
to say that we shall deplore the
faintest approach of anything indi-
cative of Conservative conventions
being controlled by the "boss" sys-
tem of New York or any other sys-
tem that shall tend to prevent the
due exercise by the rank and file of
the exercise of their manhood and
individual political sovereignty on
such occasions as we have been re-
ferring to, well knowing that it is
there the electorate receive impres-
sione which determine the amount
of energy they shall display in a
parliamentary contest.
Conventions are not held to stifle
discussion but to promote it. They
are not held merely to approve of
any cut and dried scheme that may
be planed before them, but to ap-
n
prove or disapprove of theca as the
majority shall elect.
In furtherance of the object we
have in view and to pave the way
for coming to an intelligent con-
clusion in the matter of a candidate
to contest West Huron at the com-
ing election, we, may repeat the
names of a few we have heard men-
tioned :—Mayor W. Doherty, 1J.
Cantelori, John Ransford, Ther,
Jackson, j%r.,,G, D. McTaggart, Clin-
ton,; Joseph Beck, Colborne ; Dr.
Holmes, E Campion, P. C. 1-Iaye,.
Joseph Whitely and Dr. Shannon,
jr., Goderieh ;. J. M. Roberts ond>
Dr. Case, Dungannon ; John Bea-
com and Gabriel Elliott, Goclerich
tp.; and Lawyer Blackstock, Toron-
to.
It is to he hoped that all those,
whether delegates or not, and all
others interested in the success of
Canada and the. Conservative party,
will put in an appearance at Smith's
Hill on Feby 3rd, 1891. As we
are on this subject we would suggest
that if the hour for holding the
Conventiop was fixed as much
'earlier as possible than usual it -
would probably be in the interest of
all concerned,
PARTY CANDIDATES.
As we are on the eve of an elec-
tion in West Huron, it is not only
right but absolutely imperative that
THE PEOPLE, irrespective of the dic-
tation of would-be bosses, study up
the possibilities and probabilities of
available candidates.
For ourselves we say to the Con-
servatives, select' the candidate that
will obtain the. most votes. And,
rightly or wrongly, we maintain..
that a resident of the Riding should;
'and would be such an one, whoever,
the party may choose.
We would rather be right than
'be consistent: 'Basta` "one "'Mtn '-'18a"
both.
We have fought against the
horrible princip.lee contended for by'
the Grit doctrinaires who for some
time past have controlled the
majority of the Liberal party.
These doctrinaires would sacrifice the
independence, the liberty,the honor
of our countrrl,, for a few ,pieces of
paltry alien, gold. They have
endeavored ter .delude oar farmers
who will not. fully understand the
baseness of the deception of these
party bosses until they shall have
been robbed and ruined, as Mr.
Mowat elaborately pointed out a
few weeks. ago in an ope$ letter to
Hon Alex. McKenzie.
These Grit bosses have, been to
Washington, tribute in hand, to
beg at the knees of the wily Ameri
cans pardon for our daring to live
as an independent country, and
offering to bury in oblivion our
British and Colonial victories over
them, in peace and war, if they
would but have the goodness to
aecept ue as citizens of that Great
Republ ic.
While we have contended for the
equality of the Canadian people, as
a whole, with those of any other
people on this or any other con-
tinent, it would be both wrong,
inconsistent and cowardly for us
not to maintain that in this West
Riding of Huron we have the in-
dividual equals of any othersin the
country, and consequently the
equals of any in tho world.; so far as
an intelligent appreciation of the
sentiments and aspirations of our
people, and of the legislative enact-
ments and of the general policy
necessary to pursue in order to
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SCHOOLBOOKS
are- on the move, and we• have them, one and all_
W. Cooker & Co., Clinton,
Booksellers, Stationers,. and Fancy Goods Dealers.
perpetuate the grand mission which
this Canada of oars has so far earae-
cesafully carried out, and which has
in this early stage of our history as
far.surpassed in, material brillia.ney
of accomplishment the drearre of
our fathers as the mid-day sunshine
surpasses the sickly moonlight..
Though we are not of those who
underrate the brilliant services, the
learned professions, lawyers and.
doctors, have given to the develop-
ment of political economy and
practical every day legislation, we
do think that we should oontinue
the representation of this riding in
the bands of some one more direct-
ly a repreeentative of the industrial
--that is the agricultural or manufac-
turing classes—continue the repre-
sentation in a class of which our ex -
member, Mr. Porter, was a worthy
repreeentative. •
It must be remembered that a gross
libel is perpetrated upon the Con-
servative petty of West Huron,
when it is asserted that it has not
in its ranks one of intellectual or
parliamentary capacity equal to M.
C. Cameron. If Mr. Cameron is the
beau ideal of an intellectual parlia-
mentary representative, wo pray to -
God that the Conservatives may be
represented by a downright block-
head.
If the industrial classes of/West.
Huron cannot furnish an available
candidate from amongst themselves,
who is able to refute, by plain state-
ments of the principles and aims of
the Conservative party, the dema-
goguic speechmakers, and sophists,
and empty phrase spauters, and
snappy word -pedlars of the M. C.
Cameron stamp, then let us toll the
Conservative parliamentary repre-
sentative curfew and—go to bed 1
— John McKay was found dead"
in his bed at Quebec last week.
— County Crown Attorney Ray-
mond, of Welland, died Wednesday
morning.
— During 1891 real estate trans-
fers in Montreal reached a total of
$12,768,713.
—The little daughter of William
Neelon, a Templeton farmer, was
scalded to death on Sunday.
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