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Wednesday Mardi 2nd, 1892.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
The contest that was waged for a
few weeks prior to the 23rd of
Feby., and which vomited in the
return of Icon. J. C. Patterson as
member of Parliament for West
Huron, is now happily ended.
In looking over the ground wo
find nothing that the Conservatives
can be reproached for iu the conduct
of the campaign. Thio much we eon -
not say for the defeated Grits.
Everything that partiaanism, pre-
judice and passion could do was
brought into pixy by them in order
to defeat an honorable gentleman
and an honorable cause.
Mr. Pattolson was denounced as
an Orange fanatic in one breath and
as a panderer to Romanism in ,the
next. He was a vituperative
blatherskite and the innocuous em-
bodiment of gentlemanly instincts
but of worldly helpless incapacity,
merely put up by Premier .Abbott
so that he could bo knocked down
gin feettt3 tO es lie ticsee..esseereweesees.
justifcation for elevating, hint to the
.Senate i.n.plaee.of .Iron: John Carl -f
ing to be made Lieut. Governor.
Thort rowdyism and intimidation,
though not general..on the part of
the Grits, was resorted to in various
localities most disgracefully by that
party and in a manner totally sub-
vorsive of the individual rights of
the electors. While, if reports are
to be relied upon, bribery was re-
torted to by the Grits in this elec-
tion to such an extent as to pale the
pahniest days of Mr. 'Cameron's
niostelebauahing contest,.
BLOODLESS BATTLES.
It is an honorable characterietio
of the spirit of oven this enlightened,
age that militar3 warfare and vio•
lenge are deprecated as between in-
dependent states. This setae spirit
also mollifies if it does not alto-
gether prevent internecine and poli-
tical strife.
Probably the moat active political
warfare that has ever been rife in
Canada has been going on the last
few weeks. It has almost necessarily
occurred that some rhetorical and
oratorical bludgeons have been
bropght into use by the rank and
file of both political parties.
It is, however, a pleasing retro-
spect, rather than otherwise, to re-
view the fields of the various politi-
cal campaigns and find so compara-
tively little personal villification
and vituperation. This is com-
mendable to our people as a whole
in view of the undeniably intense=
interest manifested in these conteete
by the adherents of the two great
political parties who' are contending
.for the reins of government.
And notwithstanding a laudably
naatural inclivation to set up as
demi-gods the leaders of the past
•who have fought for the constitu-
tional rights and material progroaa
of the people, there are giant de-
fenders of these same principles
cin our land today.
Jn West Huron on the Conserva-
tive side we had the'candidate him'
self, the Hon. J. C. Patterson ; Dr•
Montague, M. P., Haldimand ; J.
S. Lasko, of Oshawa ; A. F. Camp-
bell, M. P. P., EIst Algoma; A•
Ingram, East Elgin ; Ald.
Franklin, Toronto; Hof]. John
Costigan, Ottawa, and, though last
not least, Dr. Holmes, of Goderich,
whose trenchant weapons of argu-
ment wore as finely tempered as the
most delicate Damascus blade, and
they were wielded with almost piti-
leae inaisiveuese and destructiveness
against the portentous but delusive
blandishments of their opponeute.
These included the Hon. Mr. Laur-
ier ; Dr. McDonald, M. P., of East
and John McMillan, M. P, of
South Hurou ; J. F. Lister, M. P.,
Lambtou; Hon. D. Mille, Bothwell;
W. Patterson, Brant, and the re-
doubtable M. C. Camerou, the Grit
candidate.
Now, these are all intellectual
giants and we will assert nothing
against their moral worth. But
there are battles which claim public
attention independent of the rnoral
worth of the combatants. Marlboro
aud' Nelson were not patterns of
moral worth, but they battled for
the highest moral principle known
to mankind -patriotism -the pre•
servation of the independence and
integrity of their country.
" "ris the cause makes all,
Degrades or hallows courage in its fall."
It has been the destiny of the
.Anglo Saxon race to spread through
every quarter of the globe their
courage and endurance, their vigor-
ous industry and their love of free
dom, and they have extended and
perpetuated these at the least possible
loos of blood. The victory in \Vest
Huron, the victories all over Can-
ada in the bye elections, is a noble
oxelnplifieatiou of these virtues.
CATHOLICS AND WEST
HURON •
An Ottawa dispatch has a lot of
rot' about Biehop O'Connor and hie
clergy gaining the election for Pat-
terson because of their influence in'
his favor in Aehffeld. That it is
rot will be seen from the fact that
the vote for Patterson is the normal
vote of the township.
Cameron, previous to 1892, never
had a greater majority in Ashfield
than 98. In 1891 ho had 181 niaj•
ority. This was an exceptional
vote, In 1892 his majority was 74,
just about his average majority.
For sotne inexplicable reason
Goderich township in 1891 dropped
Leavingout of the queation anyits majority for Porter to 167,
referenceto the personal charadwhereas it gave hint 216 in 1887.
of Mr. Cameron, and it is a trite In 1892 it gave Patterson 2.2 mnj-
saying that the devil is not so black ority. By parity of reasoning if
as he is sometimes painted, he was Camerons vote was decreased in
the exponent of an immoral cause. Ashfield by the Catholic church in
His party is pledged to degrade thio x892, Patterson's - vote must love
Canada of aura to the position•ofa oeiltr increased in Gaderich'tp.-by
dapondoncy° to_ a foreign power.- the same in encee -Wo give -Alm
the United States. Whey declared senseless deapateh referred to i
time and again that we could not THE CHURCH CARRIES WEST HURON.
exist except by the grace of the
neighboring republic. Our people
would not endorse any such degrad-
ing.principles however courageously
presented. Had they, they would
deserve to go down to posterity as
the most contemptible examples of
a people who sank into insignificant
nothingness, unwept, unhonored
and unsung.
But the Conservative caudidate,
Hon. Mr. Patterson, and his assist-
ants took no such iguoble stand.
They showed that our social,politi;,.
-~sal°; •cofiitner'eitirand industrial im-
portance and independence de-
pended tpon our assorting our
national manhood in all these lines.
They pointed out the inspiring tra-
ditions of our common country -
the whole British Empire -like
Napoleon when he addressed hie
soldiers under the shadow of the
pyramids of Egypt when he told
thum that centuries of civilization
and progress were looking down
upon them and he behoovee, them to
quit themselves like men.
But not like Napoleon were our
speakers in \Vest Huron. His was
an immoral cause -=-the subjugation
of independent people -ours the
grandest cause that ever appealed to
the moral inetiricta and material
progress of the most independent
5,000,000 people beneath the
canopy of heaven -a cause approv-
ingly -"looked down upon by can•
turies of historiclally recorded and
eucceseful efforts in the same line.
It is said that the Conservative
victory in West Huron is inexpli•
cable except for reasons the most
discreditable to humanity -bribery.
Nothing farther from the truth can
be asserted. The victory was gain-
ed by the disciplined courage and
honor of a brave people battling for
their individual manhood and
national independence.
Our cause hallowed our courage,
and the displayed courage hallowed
our cause.
In bloody battles the combatants
often have nothing to do with the
cause they are contending for. The
courage displayed is that of the
mere animal and is to be found in
the basest as well as the noblest of
mankind.
In our recent bloodless battle the
moat important factor was an abid•
ing and determined faith in the
perpetuity of British inntitutiona
and the oneness of the British Em-
pire.
Those who know the inside history
of the West IIuron campaign say
that Cameron's defeat was the result
of a deal with the church. Tliey
claim that iron. J. C. Patterson owes
1118 election to the favour of Bishop
O'Connor whom he used to know in
Windsor. There was a straightoon-
spiracy between the church and the
Secretary of State and its results are
to he seen in West Huron election
returns.
TO BRING IT INTO COURT.
Patterson did not get the solid
Catholic vote. Even clerical influ.
ence.,.could..not-turn•-some•of the -Ro-
man Catholics who have been voting
the Grit ticket since Confederation.
Clertoal influence was used. The
local priests in Ashfield and an out-
side priest, Father Brophy, of Inger-,
soli, is the name used here. He was
attended by Ed, O'Connor, and Tom-
my Coffee, of Guelph. The priest
and his helpers made a house-to-
house canvass in the interests of
Hon. J. C. Pattereon. Father
Brophy fixed things to his liking and
then went back to Ingersoll, and
Timothy Coughlin, ex -M. P. for North
Middlesex, drove all day Sunday and
bad the Rev. Father back in the rid-
ing on Monday, 'The result was that
one polling place in Ashfield that
had given Catneron 39, went down to
4 and another that bad given one
against him gave130.
B18II0P O'OONNOR DENIES IT ALL.
Some of the Catholic Liberals in
West Huron went to London and
protested to Bishop O'Connor against
the misuse of clerical influence. His
Lordship held that the church was
taking no part in the election. Yet
there was the suspicious circum-
stances. This outside priest went
round as one having authority. The
local priests who were in sympathy
with Cameron, were allowed to say
nothing, and this Father Brophy did
the work for .I. C. Patterson. The
Grits are raw all over. A protest is
to be entered, and it is not unlikely
that charges of clerical intimidation
will be the means of bringing Bishop
O'Connor, Father Brophy and Hon. J.
C. Patterson into the box to explain
away the theory that the employ-
ment of clerical agencies to carry
West Huron was part of an arrange-
ment between the church aud the
Government.
If the full Grit vote in West
Huron had voted for Mr. C51001.00
and only two•thirds of the 'Tory
vote had been cast for Mr. fatter•
son, the Grits would have elected
their man, end everything wonld
have been lovely. But bocnese the
Grits could not bamboozle the
Tories into not voting, and 'the
result was the other way, the Tories
are a lot of b a a•a-d sten.
EDI7'ORIAL NOTES.
The Dominion Parliament and
Ontario Assembly are in session.
The Conservatives seem to be the
people if one is to judge by the bye -
elections.
The Grits now disappointment don
Their schemes aro all undone.-
The
ndone.The people sat upon M. C. Cameron
And elected Hon. J. C. Patterson.
Toronto Telegram :-"Tremble,
IIon. J. C. Patterson, for already
the sleuthhound is on thy trail.
The Huron Signal acknowledgoa iu,
this issue contributions to the pro-
test found aggregating $3 50.
Official declaration re West Huron
election at Goderich today, Wed-
nesday, by Returning Officer Mr.
Joseph Beck, It is not likely there
will bo any material difference from
the figures we gave last week and
reproduce this week -24 majority
for Patterson.
The Signal is right when it says
that Mr. Cameron's majority over
Porter in 1891 was rolled up be-
cause 342 men who voted for Porter
in 1887'did not go to the polls in
1891. In 1892 these 312 and others
voted for Patterson and left M. C.
C out iu the cold.
Iiumiltou-Sieeefi,tor
°"atli�A�T having perished, who is
going to do the lying for the Grit
party during the present session?
There are several members quite
willing to do it ; bat they sadly
lack the ability of the late master.
A Hamilton, Ont., man, E. E.
Smith, was born in 1852, yet Mon-
day last was only hie tenth birth-
day. His natal day is the 29th of
Feby, And now comes Mr. Robert
Welsh, of Clinton, whose wife pre-
sented him with a son ou the 29tH
Feby this year. . •
Under a striking portrait of Mr.
M. C. Cameron in last week's issue
of the Signal, the editor has, "We
love him for the enemies he has
made." Stronger affection could
noes emu display, for M. C. C's.
"enemies" appear to be quite numer-
ou8.
The Signal admits that West
Huron is "practically a Tory con•
atituency" and that when Mr. Por-
ter was elected "the inevitable oc-
curred." Just so, and when th e
"inevitable" did not occur it was
owing to the inevitable Grit argu-
ment -boodle -$20,000 or ao-in
three elections.
Tho Goderich Signal cries out
peccavi 1 and acknowledges that on
account of the sins of its party it is
"troubled on every side and per-
plexed." When the Signal quotes
scripture to prove its distressed
position ite statement must be taken
as more reliable than mere election
rhetoric, Our moat profound sym-
pathy is extended to our confrere in
his lamentations.
The Globe endorsee the following
from the Toronto Telegram, inde-
pendent Conservative, and we quite
agree with it :-"The first -named
constituency (West Huron) is not a
Grit stronghold. The majority of
379 given for M. C. Cameron last
March was due to the unpopularity
of R. Porter, to the carelessness
with which the Conservatives at-
tended to the revision of the lista.
West Huron is debatable ground.
M. C. Cameron was Keaton there in
1887, and the result in that year is
a truer index to the character of the
conatitnency Than the majority he
secured last Ivlaral."
It is said that the diminution in
the ranks of the Grite caused by the
slaughter during the bye•olectiona
will allow the members at Ottawa
to hold their caucuses ince cigar
box. If they do so they will be
nighty mean it they don't send the
cigars to M. C• Cameron as a sola•
11010.
Then it was dishonorable in the
extreme for the Ogilviee of Montreal,
who have large interests in the rid-
ing, and others, to come up and
vote for Patterson in West Huron.
No non-residon t Tory should be
allowed to vote in this riding, but
all nonresident Grits should bo
compelled to come and vote their
party ticket.
It is a great shame for the Signal
to attribute wrong doing to any
Conservative in the recent contest
in West Huron, snore especially to
Father Molphy, of Ingersoll, whose
"action in this matter," it has the
hardihood to assert, "is a disgrace to
the cloth he wears and a dishonor to
the sacred office that he was ordain
ed to honor." -
Muddling Mills, of Bothwell,
Lying Lister, of Sarnia, Leaior
Laurier and other Grit M. P's
stormed West Huron for Mr Carver•
an and_ he.was. defeated- lid^a nj
7ociry of 2" against him. 0 that
that the enemy had induced the
blue ruin Knight, Sir Richard
Cartwright, to have taken the stump
in West IIuron, then Mr Patterson's
majority would have increased in
even a greater ratio than the lugu-
brious Knight's deficit• while he was
Finance Minister.
They seem to have a plethora of
horses, cattle, sheep and swine in
the United States without sending
to Canada and paying higher prices
for thorn than prevail there owing to
the better prices wo can obtain for
them in Britain.,and„ ober parte of
the Empire, as will bo seen by the
following from United States agri-
cultural etatietice. There are 150,-
499,140 horses on the farms and
ranchos of the United States, be-
sides 2,314,699 mules. This does
not include the animals in cities.
There are also '.C.116,351 mulch
cows and 37,651,2:111 other cattle,
33,938,365 sheep, and 59,398,019
swine. The aver' . value of horses
is $65.01 ; mulev, $75.55 ; milch
cows. $21.40; other cattle, $15.16;
sheep, $2.53 ; 8W1110, $4.60.
Organization ie the germ of suc-
cess in all matters whore large num:
bora of mon holding similar views
aro contending for the inatorializing
or practically carrying out of thorn.
This is true whether applied to
mornl,industr•ial or political matters.,
and the last includes the other two.
In West Huron Mr. Robert Birm-
ingham did herculean work in or-
ganizing the Conservative forces.
IIo did it with a tact and discrimi•
nation worthy of all praise. We
say this without detracting one iota
from the merits of the local organiz-
ers in the various municipalities
and without whose energetic assist.
once Mr. Birmingham's efforts
would have come to naught. We
know that our people are jealous of
outside interference, but all wo
have talked with are loud in their
praise of Mr. Birmingham's tact and
energy. The Globe, the Signal and
other papers acquainted with this
riding admit that the Conservatives
have a majority of votes. The dif-
ficulty is to get the vote out. We
might as well not have them on
the lists as to leave them un -
polled aa the Signal ad -nits was the
ease in 1891. "United wo stand,
divided we fall," was never better
illustrated than by the success of
the Conservatives in West Huron
in 1892 and their defeat in 1591.
Organization did it and "Bob.' Birm-
ingham is hie name.
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