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the Meat titne the Sta. r -has done'soa
Bet for sheer cheek and impertinent
fibbing ite last effort exceeds any
of its former ones,
We presume it is within the ken
of our readers that an orphan ward
of M. C. Cameron, named Ellen
Lemmas, is alleged to have been
seduced while in hie employ, and
that the poor girl was sent to a
Home in London where she died.
No investigation was held as to
the author of the girl's misfortnne.
Street rumors have aeeociated the
names of Mr. Cauterou hine•elf and
of a Mr. Gore with it.
The Star has quite properly con-
tended that an investigation should
have .been held to determine who
the guilty person is. THE NEWS•
RECORD has also done so, and on
the suggestion of this journal some
persons wrote Attorner-General
Mowat in regard to the matter.
His deputy replied that the County
Attorney had been instructed to
investigate the case—if he thought
necessary. This reply was Beet to
THE NEWS -RECORD by the patties
who received it.
No official steps that we aro aware
of have ever been taken to ascertain
who is the author of the girl's inis
fortune and consequant death.
Mr. Guru wrote us several letters
alleging Mr. Cameroti's illicit inti-
macy wih the girl. Nut being
personally acquainted with Mr.
Gore, we declined to assume the
responsibility of publishing thorn
in the leading Conset vativn journal
orthe county. Bet we continued
front time to time to call the atten-
tion of the authorities to their
laxity in the matter. 'We even di-
rected the attention of Mr. Cameron
to the necessity of his taking steps
to vindicate hinreelf.
Then Mr. Gore, finding that the
,press was afraid to assume the pub-
lication of his charges, gave us an
order for a quantity of printed cir.
'enters containitig direct charge's of
Mr. Cameron's criminality. And
though we believe we would not
have been guilty of libelling Mr.
Cameron for' merely printing the
documents, oven though the con-
tents were untrue, we thought the
matter would involve us in litiga-
tion, which would coat ue a con-
siderable sum of money even though
we made a successful defence, so we
declined the order.
Finally Mr. Gore, as a kat resort,
is said to hav-i) secured some type
and a press and printed, on she to
which were circulated, words con-
taining a intact ch.trge of NEr. (Jam -
iron's criminality with the girl.
Mr. Cameron hereupon took action
against Mr. Gore for maliciously
libelling him.
Mr. Gore, to justify his chargee,
required the evidence of Lama
Gordon, a former fellow servant of
the deceased girl. Miss Gordon is
so ill that it is feared she will not
survive till tho autumn assizes.
Should she die in the meantime, he
claimed that his case would be
materially injured for went of her
evidence. A commissioner was em-
powered to take her evidence, in
the presence of counsel for Gore
and Cameron. This evidence, if it
had been secured, would have been
used in court „were the witness not
-alive when the case came up. But
her evidence was not gone into..
The Star published what purported
to be a report of the way in which
justice was thus baulked. And thus
we arrive at the commencement of
the present imbroglio.
The Star said that Mr. Cameron's
counsel offered and agreed to with.
draw the libel suit against Mr. Gore,
and pay all costs, if the evidence of
Miss Gordon was not gone into.
That this was how the evidence of
Miss Gordon, which it was alleged
would incriminate Mr. Cameron,
was nottak en . Tho Star also made
comments based upon this version
of the withdrawal of the libel suit
against Gore. These comment",
which inferred the guilt of Mr.
Cameron, would have been justified
were the promises upon which they
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wore IntAeti 00treei. Nfro Vetneren's guilt or itt4cencia,
But Mr. Gare'e counsel statee•fer ,of heinons °rime with which hie
publication end Mr,. .Canterou's*:*tistne. is amciated, . We ern not in
counsel sweare that the offer of 0 position to h.ow whether -he
rfettletnent Came fro to Gorb's cooninnocent or guilty,. But we do
eel and that each inlay was to pay knoti Oast he or the tiooreet Malt in
his owu costs. Thiswas put iu the lend must in all egeity, and by
eritiog, copies of which and tin the theory and practjce of 'alive')
etatement Of Gore'aeoinisel and the W, be held innocent until he has
sworn evidence' of Mr. Cameton'e been pfoven guilty.
•'counai;1 were all published in THE, Referring to THE NEWS -RECORD
NEWS Riteorto last week.They con- the Star also evolves from its Inas-
Iivuiy prove- that the Stai.'8 mivo iuteltect,the remark,"Mr. Cana -
'wagon of the settlement was entire• oron is to be congratulated on the
lv at variance with the facts. The
Star "accepts Mr. Garrow's veraiou
as correct." THE News.licooen
does the flame. When we found
that we had been misled by the
Star into publishing an article,
which lacked the essential element
of truth, and which, if it remained
uncoutradicted might seriously affect
Mr. Cameron, we last week gave
the correct version, whioh the Star
has since Paceepted as correct."
This version, while it has nothiug
at all to do with the guilt or inno-
cence of Mr. Cameron as affected by
Mr. Gare's cherges, does entirely
exonerate Mr. Cameron from being
a party to the suppression of Miss
Gordon's evidence, which, it is
alleged, would have established his
guilt. .
The aitar's offence is worse than
a critne, it is w blunder. We do
not say that it wilfully and malici
ously blundered. It has left opeu'
the door for suspicion, howevee,
that it is actuated more by malice
than by a desire to conserve the
ends of justice when it refrains
from unreservedly and manfully
acknowledging its error, and slan•
derously attacks those who have.
It has diverted public attentiou
from the cominissiou of a heinous
crime, by some person at present
unknown, to its own offence spinet
Mr. Cameron. It has succeeded in
shunting the main issue and intro-
ducing one of infinitely less im-
portance.
In its usual blunderbuss style the
Star says : "From the position we
have taken in thus demanding an
investigation, wo shall never recede
—let that be well understood."
Valiantfellow'. truly. THE News -
RECORD does net recede from that
position. We were the first to de
mand an inveatigation.
But, as we understand it, this
is begging the question. • Mr. Cam-
eron nor any other man, whether he
be innocent or guilty, cannot con-
vict a journal or an individual of
an offence for demanding that the
machinery of the law be called in
to investigate the commission of a
orime and the punishment of the
criminal. THE NEWS RECORD has
expressed no regret for having
taken this stand. And when the
Star perverts our statements of last
week into doing so it only exposes
its usual mental obtuseness and
bumptiousness. Nor did we pro•
claim "the ex -M. P. as a living eth•
,bodiment of all the virtues." The
Star simply lies when it says this.
The question in which we are in-
ti•olved row, the matter at issue, is
whether the Star wrote and publish-
ed a version of the conditions under
which Mr. Cameron withdrew his
libel suit against Gore for circulat-
ing a statement that he, Mr. Camer-
on, wee carnally intimate with the
deceased orphan girl, .and which
version if true would be, as the Star
commented, strongly corroborative
of hie guilt. The evidence adduced
is clear that the Star article was not
correct. We are not called upon
in this connection to pass upon
Mr. Cameron's immorality or upon
his virtue. Certainly we did not
proclaim hire"the embodiment of all
the virtues" nor yet the incarnation
of all the .vices. But we do' assert
aud maintain that as a citizen,
against whom no crime has been
proven, he is entitled to all the
amenities, jouinalistio and legal,
coincident with the status of au
innocent man. We do also say, as
we have on fernier occasions re-
marked, that he and the Crown
authorities have shown an unac-
countable laxity in making no effort
ta ferret out the author of the
orphan girl's misadventure and
death.
We are not ashamed nor afraid
to repeat, "That we did a grievous
wrong to Mr. Cameron" by pub
Hailing the ,Star' r: proven false
version of the withdrawal of Mr.
Cameron's libel snit against Gore.
We pronounced no opinion as to
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zeal of his new organ." Wonderful
happy thought 1 We repeat that,
'The publisher of a newspaper
should be the husband of his own
honor, as well as the protector of
that of others.'
The Star endeavors to create the
impression that iu our remarks last
week TETE NEWS -RECORD censured
it. A perusal of what we said will
not bear out this assumption, We
neither criticized nor censured. the
Star. We gave a plain statement
of how we came to republish its
article and left the . public to form
their own judgment as to the culps•
bility of the Star. While we did
not censure it we could not de' fend
it. We are not in the habit of re-
sorting to the Star for advice, nor
do we feel called upon to defend its
mistakes. And when it says THE
NEWS -RECORD'S remarks are dis-
creditable admixture of abject apolo-
gy and crawling servility" it shows
the worthlessness of its judgment
and places itself in an odious and
exquisitely rediculous light in the
eyes of all who read our remarks.
It requires neither talent nor cour-
age to adhere to a lie, nor for tbat
inat'er to invent one. L>ing is
the favorite weapon of a coward.
In this connection wo may refer
to the stand that has hjalterto been
taken by TriE NEws•REconn and
which will bo adhered to by the
now management. We hold that
neither public manuor journalist
has auy right to publicly pioclaim
to the world unsubstantiated rumors
injuriously affecting, the personal
character of any man. The press
sometimes does so and so do mem-
bers of Parliament on the floor of
the House. Oue might look fur
such conduct from members of the
Grit wing of the Reform party, but
Liberal -Conservatives should , be;
and as a rule are, above such con-
temptible couduct. We had to call
atteution during the recent Session
of the House to the nefarioue con-
duct of lying Lister when he charg-
ed ethe present member for West
Huron, Hon. J. C. Patterson, with
taking into the adjoining county,
during the progress of the last elec-
tion there, many thousands of dol-
lars which he distributed for the
purpose of corruptiug the electorate.
Mr. Patterson called Lister to task
for thus maligning him, then Lister
apologized and said ho had no per-
sonal knowledge of such transac•
tions, but it was "rnmored on the
street," Now it was unfair to thus
publicly asperse the character of a
public man. But Mr. Lister would
have been justified in formulating
any charges which carried with
them prima facie evidence of truth,
and brieging them before the high
court of Parliament or the law
courts for investigation. The Star
or THE NRWS- RECORD are quite
within the right, when they believe
a c'ime has been committed, in de-
manding an investigation. But
they have no right to assume the
guilt of any suspeOted person upon
mere street rumor, and to publicly
declare 'him guilty upon such scaly
authority. We may remark that
the Hamilton Spectator is equally
as staunch a political opponent of
Mr. Cameron as THE NEWS -RECORD
has been and has aleo been an effici-
ent exponent of his political sins,and
it adopted the same course towards
him now as we have done, only
farther by severely censuring the
Star for its incorrect version of a
matter which it conk/ and should
have ascertained the truth of before
publishitag it. If Mr. Cameron is
really a guilty man the Star has
done more to baulk justice by side-
tracking the issue than a dozen em-
inent counsel like Mr. Garrow
could do.
Injustice to Mr. Gore,' we may re-
mind our readers, that Mr. N.
lalurphy. Q. C., while admitting
that he was tho first to propene that
if Mr. Garrow would withdraw his
libel euit against Goro he would
not persist in the examination of
tho.4113k, witnoss, Miss Osrcioxfo Rai*,
"X bad uot tlaeu ijOr •have t no*
the 'past doubt of nay clion't10,,
(Qures),tnnocence .of the olta'rt,liar
circulating a slaii4er Against Mr.
Cameron,
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Empire says warrant
bus been issued in Guderich fur the
aneat of W. F. Maclean, M. P., of
the Toronto World, charging him
with ctimintil libel on M. C. Ctitn•
eron, ex-M.P.
If some of the blatherskite Cana.
dian annexation traitors were hang
ed by the thumbs for half' an hour,
as the American militia -man was
the other day and drummed out of
the country the others wo,uld quick-
ly hie them across the line ere they
ventured to indulge in their traitor-
ous talk. Doubtless if Mr. Mowat
had the power to do it he would
introduce this method of teaching
rebels a lesson if they remained in
Ontario.
, It is said that news has been re-
ceived at Winnipeg that the Privy
Council of England had reversed the
decision of the Supreme Court of
Canada, and upheld the Manitoba
Legislature in abolishing separate
schools in that Province. This com-
ing just after the Greenway Gov.
ernment being sustained on this
very question shows that'the highest
court in the maim and a majority of
the people of the Province are in
accord.
Oue of the Pennsylvania militia-
men guarding the Homestead Iron
Mills was strung up by the thumbs
for thirty minutes because he pro-
posed tbree cheers for the anarchist
who attempted to kill Manager
Frick. Good land I if this had
been done in the regular British
army what a howl of indignation
would have gone up from tho Yank
tail twisters at the doggasted British
tyranny. But it is more than like-
ly that the punishment was a merci•
ful one. Had he not been punish-
ed severely and drummed out of
the regiment he might have infect-
ed seine of his comrades causing
them to revolt at a critical moment
and involve the sacrifice of numer-
ous lives.
Mr. Mowat seems determined to'
purge his following of the traitorges
element among them as much
as possible. His latest move
has been to compel Ferrer to step
down and out of the Globe sanctum.
Mr. Farrar will have to secure some
otber medium titan the Globe
through which to disseminate his
traitorous views. Farrar admits his
annexation Views and that Mr.
Mowat does not like him for bold-
ing them. He also says that prev-
ious to his being relieved from hie
duties as arPreditorial writer for the
Globe there was a tremendoue row
between Sir Oliver and the Globe'
directorate. But the little tyrant
had his way and so Farrar had to
leave.
It is rumored that a paper is to
be started in Toronto to advocate
annexation, and to work for the de-
thronement of Sir Oliver Mowat
from the Outario premiership as
the first move. Mr. D. McGilli-
cuddy of the Goderich Signal has
been mentioned as editor in -chief of
the new venture and Ferrer recent-
ly,of the Globe as second in com-
mand. Goldwin Smith has been
mentioned as one of the new writers
but he has given this an emphatic
denial. So far as Mr. McGilli-
cuddy's connexion with the new
paper is concerned the rumor gains
credence from the fact of his adver-
tising the Signal for sale and that
the alleged mission of the p riper is
in harmony with his views while
the supporters of the Signal, gener-
ally, are not.
Some months ago a representative
of a Belfast, Ireland, manufacturing
firm sent home a hale of Minnesota
flax. Recently it came back to
America in the shape of fine linen
towels which exports pronounce
equal to the finest goods of the kind
ever manufactured. Canadian flax
has a stronger and finer fiber than
the American has. Heretofore it
has been affirmed that flax for the
manufacture of fine linen goods
could not be grown in this country.
The Belfast firm will now erect
large factories in Minnesota in
order to evade the high American
duties. Though Canada is not as
populous a country as the Milted
States yet we can grow better flax
than they can . And if our duty
was put es high as the American
we would have a home market for
all the goods made from all the flax
that can be grown in Canada.
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BARGAINS
IN TIE BAL .a.NCE CIF •Tlig
ummer Goode
For a few weeks we are going to offer tome special cute in the
prices of oar etock of
Hot Weatrier Materials. -:
The reason for this is that we prefer clearing out Goode at,
even con PRICE rather than have them lay over to another
season. This Store has always made a specialty of having
BRIGHT, NEAT AND STYLISH GOODS, :-:
and at the close of a season we do not want to carry over anya
thing that might be a hindrance to our carrying out this prin.
ciple in the ensuing one. Besides, we must make room for the
large stock of Fall Goods which we intend carrying this year.
We will not attempt to give you quotations of prices here,
other than a general idea of the reduction we are making.
Dress Goods.
We are offering all -wool Delaines at 20c., Prints at 5o., wide,
fast -colored, lovely patterns at 8c. Another shipment of that
wonderful 5 cent Gingham to hand to-day—secure some before
it is all gone. Cotton and Wool Dress Stuffs reduced to clear.
Parasols.
We have a good varlet, of nice, new, stylish Parasols, which
must be cleared out. If you stand in need of one, don't let
this opportunity pass without taking advantage of, it. We
often hear people remarking of the superior weight and width
and colorings of
Our 5c. Flannelettes.
Another case lot to hand this week. Do not forget that when
advertise BARGAINS we wean precisely what we say. Be
assured that the time will be well spent which you give to the
inspection of these goods.
0
If the rank Grit that works in a
factory in Clinton, and who said
that last week's NEWS -RECORD was
"rank" with defamatory matter of
Mr. Cameron because) it used Mr.
C's name when referring to the se-
duction and death of the orphan girl
Ellen Loonies, will procure a recent
copy of the Toronto World he will
get a emelt that may suit bis fastid-
ious olfactories.
IN AND ABOUT THE COUNTY
—A farmer named Fagan, of
Colborne township, had seven head
of cattle killed by lightning on
on Saturday.
—George Brister, of London
township, sold the first load of
season's wheat in Undon July 29.
The wheat weighed 60,11 lbs. to the
bushel, and 'the yield was 33 busliels
to the acre.
—Whitlaw, Baird & Co., of
Paris received on July 26, 300
bushels of new Garfield wheat,
weighing 58 lbs to the bushel.
This is the first offered for the
season, and was grown on their place
across the River Nith, near Paris.
—The interior of the new Tank
of Hamiltoo at Wingham wasbadlv
damaged one day last week by the
ignition of some oil, which was be-
ing used in the decoration of the in-
terior. Three streams of water were
thrown upon the blaze, but fully
$1,500 damage was done before the
tire was extinguished.
—Alexander Bossenbury, of
Zurich, who was arrested some time
ago*for living in adultery with Mrs!'
Clara Wilson, of the saute place,
was taken before Judge Vance in
the Circuit Court at Port Huron
on Monday of last week where he
pleaded guilty to the charge and
was sentenced to two years at hard
labor in the State Prison at Jack-.
son. When sentence was pronoun°.
ed he wept like a child. Mrs.Wilson
had previously been allowed tp go
and returned to her home at
Zurich.
50,000 Barrels Apples Wanted
DCANTELON, OF CLINTON, wants 60,000
barrels of Fall and Winter Apples for
which the best market price wilt be paid. Hold
your apples for Cantoton and 'ave money.
D. CANTELON, Clinton.
LOST.
On or about July 12th, 1892, a note given by
John Arery of Olinton, Ont., payable to the order
of Moses Head dated, March 12th 1891, for the
sum of 8400.00 with interest at 6 per cent, has
been lost, All persons are warned, against buy-
ing or accepting the same for the loots has not
bean properly Endorsed by its rightful owner and
payment has bean stopped.
MOSES nEA 115 Franklin St...Detroit,
717-41.„
Is Then ?
a child in all the land that
does not appreciate the
company of a Doll ? Our
experience selling
TOYS -:-
has been that there is notji-
ing that pleases the children
as well as a nice Doll and
have acted accordingly in
purchasing our stock.
In our Window
may' be seen Dolls of vari-
ous types.
Whites, Half breeds
and Negros.
Does your child 'want one ?
We are selling them very
cheap, and you can easily
afford one for each of your
children.
Wm. Cooper
& Co.,
Clinton, Ont