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The Huron Signal, 1882-06-09, Page 4TILE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY. JUTE IS3t THE HURON SIGNAL pebliebed even ?rides >roratat. !s yc QPW00Phs lips., •l Melt Oliva ).at► et eilGODEYIOH, ONTARIO. Aad is despaaoaed 10 all pasts of the sorrowed t4 ceuatry by the earliest sa4Ug sod uvulas. thalh=astaalentealit hoe nagger *ironer ON oat�w Mau ne .I . eewMati and ssetwe-,� r S � to Brie na4 being t a i to the above • ird.o!•s meetly cad aneet dentrahle� . p V therefore • Tiass.. ie 1a ad pastae pts ibtt.a.re; p ?t. If 4 b.eur•.0 vita inti sot se Feld. T rale will be strictly Items or Aavasr e.--> t cXi not tar first ta.srtioa ; ths�a� each swbssauentinee ttsa. T�e .i and quartert cos at rod rake. dab r1 iaTtui.— W. leve alsoaLrt•elsas jobbing dep•rtmeat in oosas.tloa cal ��oo��...s��► ing the most complete out -lit adbeet a.eilltts for turning out work to liodertch,are prepared to do business la that line at prices that miasma be bsasea, cad el • ,tsaiity that seam* be eerpa sd.-- Theme Clash FRIDAY, JUNE 9th, j1889. OUR TICKET. FOR PREMIER --HON, S BLAKE. WEST *URON—M. C. CAMERON EAST HURON—Dn. SLOAN. SOUTH HURON—J. McMILLAN. OUR MOTTO: "Ontario'• Rights we will maintain." AN AC( IDENTAL CANDIDATE. When Huron was gerrymandered foe the third and last time, there was great joy exhibited by the knot of Goderich Tories who aided in the wire -pulling which brought about that bit of polit- ical trickery. West Huron, said they, is ours now beyond peradventure, and Platt is the man fur the Commons. Mr. Platt very properly considered himself the fortunate one, and made nu octet of his ability and intention of car- rying the riding by something in the three figures. I have tought in the shade, I here faced hes.vy majorities, I have twice led •forlorn hope, reasoned the "salt king, 'and now Providence and the Gerrymander have put the prue within easy reach. West Huron is a ?setter thing than the Centre. Mr. Platt is of an honest, unsuspi- cious, confiding nature, and he little dreamt that there was ,ane in his home who was willing to defeat him and be defeated himself, rather than see a fel- low townsman enjoy a victory. Mr. ,Johnston, a young and very am- bitions politician, and a duly accredited candidate in the Tory intere3t for the •Local House, had turned an envious eye upon the newly carved constituency for the Commons, which he considered some 130 better than for the Local, and he longed for it with a great longing. While professing the utmost friendship for Mr. Platt, he was at heart jealous of the seeming good fortune of his bluff com- panion, and quietly set to work to un- dermine the chances of his old friend and build up his own at •the same time. It mattered little to his ambitious soul, if his companion were to be politically weauinated. He was willing to strike in the dark with the treacherous dagger; or even tight it out to the death under I the pretence of a friendly struggle, if he could be spared the mortification of see- ing a fellow townsman lifted above him• self in the party scale. Sedulously, and in the moat despicable, underhand way, he proceeded to alienate Mr. Platt's friends from him. Letters, full of egotism and earnest appeal, were sent to the lesser lights of the party all over the Riding, in the hope that Platt might be deserted, and Himself sustained, at the nomination. A hitter feeling sprang up between the two men, and plain speaking and haul words passed between the old-time friends. The elder Looked upon the younger as a pre- sumptous, would-be supplanter, , and made no secret of his contempt for his treacherouttattetnpts to defeat him. But a neer contestant appears on the scene. Mr. Robert Porter, who it was thought had been politically dead and buried under an adverse majority of 600 in South Huron, has been resuscitated, and. showing his wounds, claiinsa place. The convention assembles, noses are counted, and it turns out that the resur- rected politician has a little over one- third of the entire delegation. Any compromi;.e between the (hderich men will ensure the nomination to a resident of the lake toan; but the young lawyer is too ambitious, and the old salt king too proud and earnest, to withdraw. A ballot is taken, and the tigures stand. Porter Platt Johnston 33 32 24 Now is Johnston a time to show Ins tact. The word could have been given his supporters to wheel arouml for Platt, and plump at least 15 votes for the Godench nun. Rut another ballot is taken for the three, and the tellers count Porter 97 Platt 34 Johnston . ZI But the third man has no second Amiis. Ha:motto is "Johnston first, and Jsha- etnn alwafs, and in the third ballot, when hill names is w,thdrewn, an little doe. he care for his fellow teens man that no word in his favor has been given to his supporters, and they make a break The count five• Potter 62 .wt .4 tit deleyp*tes, a.4 the euts►der Ines South Perth, throe/0i, Mr. J..La- tauo's silly amtsitiva, beste Mr. Platt, el Oedsrieh, who one week earlier was se our, of ttse awotiaatiun as any loyal C.a- servative weld be. Hs was wounded in the haws el a friend • Why do we give this Lit til history 1 Wen, jest to show that Mr. Purger is the accidental candidate ut the Censer- reties enserveties party of West Huron, and that the people of this town at least night know how a Ooderich Ulan bat the semination through the treachery .d a whilom friend. Among the Christmas cards last year we noticed a comical .ane re 'resenting • est and dog quarrelling over a plateful el food, while • sly duck is surreptitious- ly emptying the pkate. It is a capita! allegory of the condition of affairs at Smith's Hill un the occasion .1 the re- cent Tory nomination. However, after June 2Oth, Mx. Relit. Porter well be a "dead duck." Ma. W. J. Swimmer, of MoiCillop, is is ten. of the best men in the Tory halts in Huron. But hut cause is a bad one, his opponent is a good man, and the Liberal majority against him is fully 400. Evsav man who votes fur the Govern- ment candidate and the non -ratification of the Boundary Award, is a traitor to Ontario. The value of the timber privi- leges alone in the temtory awarded was placed at $126,000,000, or about $66 fur every man woman and child in Ontario. Vote for Cameron and an en- tire Province. Orr must go from home to hear the news. The sapient editor of the Mon- treal gazette, in alluding to the pros- pect of the Tory candidate of West Huron, says : " This is the riding which Sir Richard Cartwright represented in the late Parliament." This will be news to the sturdy men ef Ashfield and the Wawanoshes. THE RaviNue to be derived from the timber privileges alone of the disputed territory amounta to enough to pay all the expenses of the Province of Ontario for about 40 years. The value of the minerals, land, ac., is also very great. How many of our readers are willing to surrender that valuable territory so unanimously awarded us by the eminent arbitrators T Mr.. CAMERON is continually gaining friends; and the reckless abuse and foul innuendoes made by the party hacks are doing him no injury. His election was long ago asaured; it is now only a platter of majority The.Liheral vote is a unit for him. and scores of old time Conser- vatives are pledged to help him in his fight against monopoly and corruption, and in his plucky stand for Ontario's Rights' THE Government organs in this county last week each received $50 worth of advertisements, tenders for public works extending from one end of the country to the other. This accounts for the vile abuse levelled at the Liberals in the last issues of these veracious sheets. The greater the Lumber of " fat" Govern- ment advertisements appearing in the organs, the louder the howl against the Reform party and Ontario's rights. Is giving Manitoba enlarged borders the Dominion Government has endeavor- ed to rob Ontario of a bis! slice of ter- ritory comprising a large portion of the "Thunder Bay" region. The Provincial Government has paid for colonization roads through that country, aided schools, administered justice, and has had a representative in the Legislature sent the votes of the people of the dis- trict. The peuple of Ontario will resent this rubbing our territory by voting for the Liberal candidates, and Ontario's Rights. MR. JOHN MCMILLAN, the Reform candidate for South Huron, has for the past seven years been Reeve of Hullett. So highly respected is he by his Hullett neighbors, that for six years he has been elected by acclamation. He is also greatly esteemed by the members of the County Council for his quality of head and heart. Mr. McMillan has been much abused for his religious views, and few men have been more misrepre- sented than he. The fact that shore who know him beat esteem him most, is the best proof that Mr. McMillan's opinions are not very objectionable. WW.11s'. i tap you .n the ohoulder,yell like hell,' said the Conservative candi- date for the Local House, as he entered the Town Hall at Mr. Camrr,n's Smith's Hill meeting on Wednesday. and took his seat next to a young Godench"lamb" 1 A number of Reformers who were near by overheard the remark, and kept the youngster quiet during the rvenong. This is a sample of Mr. Johnstone polit- ical tactica He would hare the young .inking men yell, and not listen He delights in noise, and is never s.i happy as when v..a.r. Asssilwa ca he is getting the "hey. ' to shout down (lLLxru►t :Nees itis: W W. hear the must eattow etgiug riptide of lbw saccus Ms. Oaiuerun se useetUlg with is hits eaa ew♦ Mauy chi, had fanner -1y hems »natal& him ytedg►ag their s.pp.st, and the ar surauoe .I bis beteg retwriod b, • ,fused nujenty increase every day. auste Mr. Blake has plainly that he believes the boundary awald to be a legal one (and he never held other- wise), therwise), there is consternation in the amp of tiro sonnies of Ontario. This was the last of a ernes of weak wows. foe the sou-rati*eetwo of the award. What plea Tory *tenuity will next invent re - Mallet to be seen. I.r referriug to the South Huron Re- form ouuvention aominatwu, the Star last week said : The enoosesfel eaalleme was rewired to Wad himself to writing to an agreement that, la the eveas of tae defeat of either 1er. Mac- keasie, 81r IRlehasd Cartwright, M. C. Camer- on meron or Mr. Pattereoa, he would resign his eat sadaltew the defeated to occupy 11, The afore statement is untrue No writing was given; nor, indeed, could any be expected from the Reform candi- date. Ink an be *paled where Joh n McM illan's word is oonosroed. .1 ;rums of Mr. Cameron's popularity amongst the Irish Oetholies, the Tories have originated a silly slander about that gentleman or a friend of his boasting about buying the Irish vote. Mr. Caineeon does not need to buy that vote. The Irteh Catholics look upon him se an old and steady friend, whu is not towed around by an Orange County Mester, and will pull a olid vote fur him, nut for 'money, but from esteem and regard. Tits Tory lesders ar.Mill unsettled un the owl question. Tilley says the Amer- icans who send seal into Canada pay half the duty imposed. Tupper mays that the producers mall the duty. He tell the Nova Scotian that the duty is giving them the Ontario market at res. - =able figures, and else tell the Ontario people that the duty is making ooal cheaper ! How the Nova Soutians cau get the Ontario ooal market on account of American col being kept out, while the Ontario wanes:mem get cheaper coal, and all the time the Americans are pay - the duty, is a conundrum that deserves a chrerant Sra�aarro at London on Tuesday, Hon. John Carling said: "Returning officers have great powen,for the appoint tb. deputies, who an examine the ba - lots, and it not disposed to act fairly, might canoe an unfair division of the rotes. How sweetly innocent ! Registrars and Sheriffs appointed by a Liberal Gov- ernment are not to be trusted with the ballot box, while pets selected from out of the most violent partisans, and willing to do the Government a turn for further favors, are to be above suspicion. Does Mr. Carling, or his friends,' seriously think that the people will swallow such rubbish? THE fight in East Huron goes bravely on, and every indication points toward the election of Dr. Sloan in that Riding. The Ontario's Rights men are settling down to their work and good reports curve from every municipality. An amusing incident recently occuried, which gees to prove that "coining events cast their shadows before." Mrs. Mor- ley, (the postmistress of Belgrave through the recommendation of Mr. Farrow), was in town a few weeks ago, and while here wished to purchase a suitable wed- ding present for her patron. After look- ing around for some time, she finally dropped in to one of our furniture estab- lishments and bought an easy chair and a rocking chair, the one for Mr. Farrow and the other for his spouse. The choice of an easy chair at the present time is d happy appreciation of the neceeaity of the cane. Since 1872 Mr. Farrow las had an easy seat in Parliament, and now as his chances of again occupying it have become beautifully less, Mrs. Mor- ley deserves great credit for conceiv- ing the idea of presenting him with an easy chair, to rest his weary bones dur- ing his enforced retirement from Parlia- ment. No one but a woman could have.thought out so happy an idea, as the substitute of an easy chair for a Par- liamentary seat to • defeated politician. Mew is site. Elector., who go to vote on the 20th inst., should be very careful that they do not spoil their ballots, and in order that their vote may be on the right side THE CAMPAIGN. a.. *oat over the County. elf Me Meetings Farina ism _ else r..af.ews Lessen. Wads M4. BELFAST. The announcement that M. M. C. Oemeron wculd adresa the electors of this vicinity um Friday ensuing last, and that Mr. Pieter was invited t.. he pre- sent brought a very largo number "f the electors together on that evening. The meettag was held to the a;hool-house, but it did not afford even staudisg route for those parent, so that a great many had to remain outside and Buten through the open window% Owing t.. sickness, lir. tSare..u. was unable to be present, but he was ably reprwouted in the per. - son of Mr. A . M. Russ, M. P. P Mr. Robert Morrison, .'f Ashfiekd, was Balled to the sham, and suede a few re- mark., and asked fur a fair beariug for all the speakers who might address the meeting. He then called en Mr. Rosa, who in • very able speech, showed the iniquitous conduct of the Dominion Government, with retard to the Gerry- mandering Rill, the Boundary Award and the Streams Bill, and choaed with a hrilliait peroration on Mr. Blake. Mr. Porter was then called and spent a short time in endeavoring to justify the Gov- ernment In the course which thetook with regard to the Streams Bt11 and Boundary Award. He even attempted to defend the Gerrytoandering Bill, but she defence wee Lore indeed. He then glided to the N. P. and spent the re- mainder of his speecb in dilating upon the benefits which he alleged resulted from that policy. He claimed that the farmers here got better prices for their horses and cattle, and manufacturers in Ontario better prices for their imple- ments, owing to the North West Mar- ket, but he failed to toll his audience, that. if that be sikt.d Ontario, it was an injury to the people of Manitoba and the North West as the tariff unwonted them from buying where they could buy cheapest. He seemed to imagine that he was advocating • policy for Ontario, instead of the whole Dominion. Mr. Somerville, of Lucknow, then addressed the meeting and dealt heavy blows against Mr. Porters arguments for the Stroma Bill and the National Policy, after which the meeting was brought to a close. OLIVER'S SCHOOLHOUSE. A well attended meeting of the elec- tors of West Wawano.h was held,at Oli- ver'sschool house, on the evening of Tue.- day'last,in the interest oftheConeervatire candidate. Mr. Robt. Medd was called to the chair and introduced Mr. Porter, who immediately took the platform and opened the discusaon. He regretted that his opponent, Mr. Cam- eron was hindered from being present, owing to loss of voice, caused by the con- tinuous meetings and exposure. He, himself, wsa suffering to a certain extent physically fron the arduous work of con- ducting a spirited campaign, and did not feel like holding a lengthy meeting this evening. He would therefore not elab- orate on all the questions at issue, but would devote himself more particularly to the National Policy which was the great. issue in 1878. He then proceeded to give the N. P. arguments which are familiar to our readers, and many of which did service in 1878. The old horse story was revamped, and brought forward and expounded to the satisfac- tion of the speaker, if not to the edifica- tion of the audience. The shut- ting out of American grain was referred to, and the keeping out of foreign freight from transit by our canals and railways upheld; the prosperity of the country was enlarged upon, and attributed to the benign influence of the N P.; the low- ering of interest was awing, sI. the er- udite sneaker said, to the N. P.; the sale of old horses to Manitoba was an- other outcome of the N. P.; in fact all the good, or what wa:r believed to be good, had been developed by the N. P., and the increased price on certain ar- ticles of wear and ci nsu'nption was ow- ing to circumstances entirely outside of the wonderful panacea. He quot- ed figures from the Trade and Navigation Returns, in his usual careless style, and although' it is said figures won't lie, he endeavored to make them bolster up his argument. Ile then wrestled, in fear and trembling, with the boundary award, which seemed to him to be a matter 1,1 little moment. He found fault with Mr. Blake for not pre- senting the matter to Parliament instead of Mr. Mills. He claimed that Mr. M ills had prepared the award for both Ontario ;,and the Dominion, and, had done wrong by so doing: Sir John had stated that the award was illegal and Mr. Blake had not denied the state- ment. It was only now dogged in as a side issue to helptheGrite. He alludedto the disallowance of the Streams Bill, but had not time to go into a discussion of it. ft was sufficient to state that the Bill interfered with the vested rights of Mr. McLaren, and the rights of British subjects should not be interfered with. He understood »representative was pres- ent in the interest of Mr. Cameron. and having spoken an hour and twenty min- utes, he would now allow that gentle- man an equal time. He reserved to himself the right of reply for ten min- utes, but did not know that it would be nooeseary for him to avail himself of his right If they believed what he advocat- ed to be correct he hoped to get their support ours the 20th of June. He re - should mark their ballot as follows - earned his seat amidst loud cheers from his friends. Mr. D. Me(.illicuddy, o.f l odench, Xliras then introduced by the chairman CAMERON Malcolm Calla Cameros of the Town ofOoderich.bar. dater. PORTER Robert Porter. of the town- ship or 1'.Mrne, !Possum. ' and was heartily recesred on coming for. 'ward. He appeared on behalf of Mr ' Cameron. as that gentleman was impar t 1 itated from being present, r wing k. • ' aerere hoareeness Mr Cunene' was in every other respect in rood pphysicial health and wax ready and willing to mew. 1'La N. I'. s aa. t 1 e isuiu ,:, 18;8, and Ay its then p ' .s1 gall,, Mao .. v er- dict Lad teen a•:.td til from Me a 'entry, but w.h a ninth wos,ld not tr-cer Karn. it had been weighod in the bal.uce evial found eautittg. blr Porter had room t- ed tl.at the farsncss sanv beuefill.d by the N. 1' but tla.t failed to show skate iu tire pries id p. -..duce, the faiutei.st..ek ill trade, bad been enhanced in .blue. ,Hear, boor.) 11e had also spoken of the prosperity thrswghwut Cattail* reused by the N. 1'. It was contended by that g:eutleuut that the waaufactuseis erre fairly rewarmed of ittand it sus duiug them groat gaud. This viaa a fallacy. Harris, Sou .F Cu., the iwpleweut emu at Rns,itfurd, Dixon, the cerriaite build- er of Tweed.), Chase, the aniale mak- er of Guelph, mid hundreds eel others testitiul that the tax .us raw material, was an injury to the manufacturer. Again, it wee claimed taut Turouto and the other larye cities at s distance were beim( built up by tisu aurkiag of the N. 1'. This was true, to a certain ex- tent, but Toronto laud been built up at the ezp)enas of the smaller cities and town, such as Guelph and Busmuan- villo. From I h. fon:ter Bolles tt Hunters engine works dud been re- moved to Tunsnto, and from Bowwu a- ville the Massey Manufacturing Cu. had been taken. Other cases 41 a similar nature could be cited did time permit, but enough was here shown that good trumps were given to the gnat central city and a hod hand dealt to the smaller places. (Laughter). And the biggest joke of all was that Sir Leonard Tilley, in his bogus list, claimed that the nu - ported factories to Toronto were Hew in- dustries established. (Hear, hear,. Th N. P. advocates believed, so fax as in (lustre. were concerned, in verifying that portion of Scripture which said, " To him that hath shall be given, and to him that hath nut shall be taken away even that which he hath." (Laughter). The old kine store had once wore been Mr. Juhuet.re--I tomtit polititrlly. Mr. Mv(Iillicuddy -- i don't ease »tether you meows petit Lally,..orally or physically, the mettseei.t 1. an atiuemus one, and you, if your aro a dwotd man, would not endorse it. stood are pLiuse.) C.,sNuuing the steadier called up,.ii the electors to turn out eu the 90th of June and loll their votes f. r M. C. Camer.u, a man of mud obi ity end an es enern.d legi.lrtor. (ApiJawv.) Lr. Pwtar replied fur over hill an hour. He defended the g;esr)...a,tier- ing Lill, nud .vuk.udud that the (,hits were ea led as the Terrey. You her own part he would like to as. I..slisJetiou whish would Linder Sir Joist' au.' the little Mr. Mowat frrur car% tug the owl- ststuet,cnw. (Haar, heat'.) He thou start- ed t.. ridicule Mr. Mc ?*Ilio lddy and ,Meer at Mr. Cawerou, the Ltt:r of whom be stigmatized as the arch-ur;bor. He 'esuM,ul his ate' after a vary wrathy exhibition of sple •a, without sate opting lu c,ntroten :uty of the statements ad vancexl b. Mr. Carnerou'a reprvseuta- ti."n. Mr. Porter •ed anti Mr. McGilli- cuddy wounded a vote of thinks to the disarming, .sod the insuring clowd with the u.ksal cheer.. SMITH'S HILL Dl r. Cg.w.•r,.is's 111 0'5U ,f Smith's Hill was very lar t ly attend ed on Wed. nesdsy evening. In addition to the re- sident& of the stets m, a number of the County comanillure and others attended, while a phalanx of "lambs' from Gude- rich and Saltford at the beck of Mr. F. W. Johnston, the Warden, tried to make things lively. . Ob Lannon, Reeve Young, of Colborne was called to the chair, and he imme- diatecalled Mr.ly M C. Caaseauponos, whu although suffering from a severe hoarseness, ad- dressed the sweeting. He opined by stating that he was, oaring to so infirm), ty of throat, unable to do justice to him- self or the subjects. But he was willing to do his beet, and wore could not be expected trues him. One of the meet important questions before the country at tine present tinter was the settlement and developemeat of the great North - wee', and the building .4 a great trans- continental railway to link the eastern portion .•f the Doaninion with the west. The Reform party was in favor of devel oping the North-west a..d building th railway, but they decidedly objected t the acts of the present Government in the matter. A giant monopoly had been created in the C. P. k, and the country had been practically handed over to the feeder mercies of a Yankee syndicate. Alternate blocks had been given to the company, and this fact, if no other would have a tendency to retard settle- ment, as the railway alternate lots were exempt from taxation, and the burden .f ranking roads building bridges and other impr ovesaenta would have to be borne by the settlers who were .and - niched in between. lf, in the town• ship of Colborne, every second lot was � exempt from taxation, what would the gentlemen who lived on the taxed Iota 1 think when they were forced to build 1 the roads and make the imp ove- menta. That iniquity on • much larger scale was one of the. thing. the electors were asked to endorse on the 20th June. Then there was the system of disposing of the public domain in the North West at present adopted by the Govern - merit. Colonization schemes innamer- ab!e had been formed by speculators,and now immense tracts of•land were being disposed of to wealthy old countrymen like the Duke of Manchester and Mr. Brassey, which would lock up millions more of the acres of the Northwest. Whether this should be tolerated or not, by the electors ..f Ontario was to bit test- ed en the 20th :1 June, and he was willing to leave in the hands of the elector the dispose] of the question whe- ther they were willing that in theears to cone their children and their child- ren.s chi:dren should have inflicted upon them a grinding monopoly and landlord- ism second wily to that found in Ireland at the present time. (Heir, hear.) An- other yuestiun was the .Bound try award. He discussed this at some length and referred to the ap liatinn ee Ontario whi.h was contemplated by Sir John at the bidding .d the Bleus. The exodus and the N. P. were then taken hold of, and the balance of trade shown to be against the Dominion, and that fact, previous to 1878 was counted a most serious matter by the N. P. advocates. He then touched upon the gerrymander- ing and showed that it was brought forth so as to be used for partizan pur- poses, and not so that the constituencies could he ,equalized according to repre- sentation by population. Blot condemn- ed the action of Sir John in this matter, • and used it as another reason al at Hon. Edward Bike's party should be return- ed to power He concluded by calling on his friends and all honest -minded Conaervatives to support him at the en - sting election. Mr. Porter was then intnsluoed, and stated that he, too, wits laboring under physical difficulties. The compaign thus far had been conducted continuously. and there was a lot of hard work and little rest in . it. Mo -ever, the same questions had to be discuasesl every night, and however satisfactory it might be to the listeners in the different places it certainly was monnktnona to the speaker. He then proceeded to give the tame speech which he gave at Kings- bridge, with slight ranations, and as a eondenaesl report /4 the former has al- ready appeared in these column. a »ns- tition will not to necessary. During his speech he wee enthnsiastically cheer- ed by Warden Jonston and the "lambs," and ao ardent was Freddy in shouting, that it was feared the top of hie head would tall off, owing to the opening of his mouth en wide. He e • sweet pet ' Mr Gamow, awing to the weak state of Mr Camernfl ..nice, was raped upon to cl... the mooting, and although the Warden .1 hneton tarty weight to annoy him in venom ways. ssceeeded m up settint Mr Porter's theories on the N P anal e h.arTh. nialk,w w•s ethlan desaltonn withawm ad entwine ng man - neo, and • high and p atriotae sentiment esprss.ad with r./.r•enee to the menet*. once therm(. Mr Garrow's rewiarka were well apreciated by all present tiers Johnston ltrine.. Pani the nng power of that little enmtrM was ar stronger tkan the 'ening prose, The meeting was elemed with thanks M the rhairrnan and the usual rhea," brought to the front by Mr. Porter, and that gentleman had endeavored to make the farmers believe that the price of horses had been increased by keeping out the American horses through the N. P. If Mr. Porter understood the horse question or had carefully studied the Inde and Navigation Returns he %wild not talk such arrant nonsense. Of horses we were reporters, not importers, except in • few instances. We only im- ported horses for breeding purposes, and breeding stock was free of duty. In 1878, before the N. P., we only import- ed 159horses upon which duty was paid from the United States ; but in 1881, by the Trade and Navigation Returns to which Mr. Porter referred, it would be seen that the importation had increased to 242. The figures showed, first, that the number of horses in either year was absolutely small te be a factor in regulat- ing the prices of the hone market ; sec- ond, that if 159 horses glutted the mark- et and caused prices to fall in 1878, _ the 242 in 1881 must have been a greater glut ; and third, that Mr. Porter didn't understand the horse question or he would have let it severely alone, and would have let the old $80 horse, which was to have been made worth $100 by act of Parliament, remain in the grave to whish it was consigned by every in- telligent person in 1878. 'Har, hear and laughter). It was not necessary to deal any further with the so call N. P., for its absurdities were too well known, further than to say that no revolutionary measures on the taritfquestion would be adopted by the Reform pa:ty should they attain power on the 20th of June, as he believed they would. .Hear. hear.) The Refnnners were not free traders in the strict sense of the term—they were • revenue -tariff men. "t1 -hat was wanted 1 was to have a tariff sufficient for the Governmental expenditures, and to have the fiscal policy ».. .adjusted that justice would be meted out impartially to the humble toiler res well as the great sugar king. (Hear hear`. Mr. Porter had called 'Messrs. Cartwright and Mackenzie, " flies on the wheel, but the Sir John Government could now with justice be known by the newly coined appellation, •' The skippers in the cheese. " The Tories, like the skip- pers, got in by the negligence of the makers. and being in, imagined, and it was only imagination, that they had a divine to stay there. But a day of reckoning was coming and we would have a Letter cheese after the 20th of June. (Hear. hear . The speaker next referred to the Boundary Award which he discussed at considerable length, proving that a gross injustice was being done to Ontario by the non -ratification of the Boundary award. The Disallow- ance was next gone into briefly, and the iniquitous and partizan conduct of the Ottawa Government demonstrated. At this stage 71r. Porter informed the 'meeker that he had spoken within ten minutes of his time. Mr. McGillicuddy— Well. it's your meeting and I suppose I will have to bow to your authonly, bun there is one point more 1 would like to speak on and that is the gerrymandering. Will Mr. Porter, who has been gerrymandered out of the County for electoral purposes by Sit John have the hardihood to defend the nefarious scheme which deprived him of the privilege of voting for the can. didate of his choice in Huron? (Hear, hear Continuing he said that Huron for electoral purposes had now to be sought in three counties and five mun- icipalities, and Mr. Porter was exiled to Perth by act of Parliament. (Laughter.) But if the Lib -Con. candidate was gerrv. !wandered .out of Huron, he, in his turn, gerrymandered Mr. Platt and that tal- ented i young lawyer, Mr. Freddy W. Johnst,.n. cot ..f the nomination in West Herm. r Hear, hear and laughter. ) While the two, former were fighting for he base, the stranger came in and ran iF with it. Renewed laughter I The gerrymandering was done so as In tie the hands o4 Messrs Patterson. Mackenrie, Mills. Roes. CAarlet.ws and others be- hind their hacks and cut their throats rn their cowman efnc ifs. "Stasi Rails" Johnston— g„ar, emu.. Ilk. Me(illscwddy - Thar pers.in be -1 �Ige 21109 endorses the atrocious action. demo know him personally, hot I do 11 ,e'sotatn.n. whey is the lest. of dtir play and British jeans' when II ass endorse, s matter 5n stm- sise. T tell yen. gentlemen, if theft WO his sentiments. and if he yam in Pier r- 1 ix Park. Dnhlm, t little tome ago, with f dagger n he hand. hear.n help the intim Cheers Be sure and put a cross after the hist fight the battle of Reform and marry the' old flute on to victory. as in days Roes form, without by. w game as to ON epees hen hs oaptcred K.,uth Hotter► outside Mess and held it firm in the Liberal in - 1 tere.t -Hear. hear Mr Cameron would be in Wwanosh been.e the 11 mpatgn me though. and u,tele he able to give a good a»- un( sg himself when he appeared Mr Poe - tor had in his addresss dealt, to a extent, with the N P . and wenn' l,sye tot eternity believe that it was the great n rsaae upon which the eovnine 'lection • wnnld he fought Koch was net h an opponent. He u • model mentor for our youth. His whet. character sa summed up in that elegant phrase "When I tap yon on the shoulder. yell 1 Irks hell As for Mr. O Desohss'e Meek upon Mr Meant Blake ..n sseesent of he speech on the lnah reenlutir.na. it was unwnrthy of him An lnahmar hsmeelf, he ahauld he the tat roan t., sneer at any friend of Ireland who lift. up his ...see in behalf ref that unhappy country. 1