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The Signal, 1902-5-22, Page 8a T7I uI eDAv, May 22, 1901 OW THE TQ tory of Tory Crookedness ow the Constituencies Were Debauched from 1892 to 1896. hen Switching Ballots Was a Fine Art in Canadian Politics—" He Was a First -Class Man in North Bruce "—How West Huron Was Stolen in 1892. E Star last week ant out a sup - ant, printed at the office of The to World,which purported to give h mads by W. D. MCPHsftao9, ory lawyer, who claimed that ali he anxious for was honesty in elec- contests. We notice in perusing Mr. McPnze- 's address, as set forth in the sup - to The Star, that the eminent - fair -minded MCPattatioxtrae to the tory .instincts of his forbears, vored to steal every shred of actor from hi. political opponents, yet had not one word of dissent the rascally acts that were perpetu- by his Tory friends for years and rs and years. Mr. MCPHER•ON makes no reference the Tory machine of 1892, that bed the electors of Ontario from to end of the Province ; he doesn't e any particulars of how C. S. Hy - was deprived of his seat in Lon - by a partisan judge ; he makes no rence to the written instructions to J. FREEMAN by the Tory pine of Ontario so that the con- uency of Macdonald in Manitoba ht be stolen (a fac-simile of which rs on this page, reproduced trim exhibit produced in court when Tory member, NAT BOYD, was un- ). Mr. MoPHSRsoe doesn't re- d his hearers that BOB BIRMIIOMAN raphed to NAT Bon that FRIER - "WWI • good man in North ce,' at a previous election. (We ace a fac-simile on this page of celebrated telegram, which was p an exhibit in court at the Mac - d '7,lection trial.) There were tier omissions that were made by McPeslteox when he tried to be t, and denounced the election ities. He made no reference to Tory school for election crooks was established in St, Catharines one election contest when an rt was brought from Lewiston to h the returning officers how to h ballots, and when a prize was to the Tory returning officer led the procession of vobe-switch- Nor did the eminently fair- ed McPHSRaoN remember any - about one BILLY SMITH, in tat Ontario, who admitted that he paid out e1,200 in order to beat . JOHN DRYDEN in that oonetitu- h, no ; McPusfisoll is not quite so minded or honest in politics as he make the public believe. He man who knows the story of Tory election crookedness, but his is only to abuse the Liberal■ to make honest statements of as they exist. To hear the Tory talk one would thinkthat wooled not melt in hie mouth, snag one will name any pieoe of rascality that the said MoPHsit. ever taken exception to, ii will y surprise the said W. D. Me- , of that ilk. _ -- — tcliltsneox is the gentleman who kms s prominent some years ago ledger* to work tip a case In West Hur election trial, and if Mistake not, had to resort to affi- ts and things to help him out of had the appearance of a very piece of business for any prss ly reputable lawyer to engage in. so for the benefit of W. R. Mc- followtng year, when ideation' ooneeout!yoly power en•hled them to pe machine," which moved to ooaetltoeooy end by loos men and • Meth everything before 1t. A bye-riectlen was la 1892, and the Hoo. J. C. Patterson and the late Hon. M. C. Cameron wore the eandld•tee of the rival parties. Our read- ers will not Deed to be reminded of the carnival of political oeiruptloa on that .00•slon. Fury effort possible to debase and degrade • 000statuency was resorted to try the men who were sent into the 000ettto- enoy on behalf of the Tory party. Speakers, boodles, ballot staff per/toasters and every possible camp -follower of the political machine Hooded the riding and (ought down their epponeole. who oomprised local men working with local ms'bods. The Monta- gue'', Birmingham", Moyers, Couhr.aee, Andy Ingram*, Freeborn*, West', and pores of others were op and down the batik**new and 000eea.Ion Ross, and .n elation day • number of emitters look possession of ,.rtaln polling booths and noted In various o•paltles during the day. The for the EnHine an In Huron politios did bo bloom" known that • plan ot political ras- cality had been worked out whlob was deatlaed to b.00me notorious to the Prov- iso* of Maniteb• later on. The following instructions were given to the workers •''Ve have tits printinr ot the ballots, therefore a euffiolent number should be printed extra to enable the deputy re turning officerto have them marked for our osodidate and ready to the after the count to ropieoe those road out wrongly to the *mutineer* Or tbs depot re- turning officer tan have them marked and folded to his pookel to slip into the box In plea* of an opposition ballot If the op- portunity hippie*. This, of course, will odour quite frequently If we here oo,trol of beth serutlaeors. '•T" get °entre' of both scrutineers the holding of byc- by the party then is 'tion • "political from oonstltoenov the aid of uoscrspo - ora of money curled bold to West Huron THE SIGNAL : GODERIT ONTARIO. 5 WON ELECTIONS! hays ate o1 our men, dot a prumloeol one, but • ,apposed kicker, for lososno., apply to the opposition to be put e■ ea .orutin- eer Inside. They are generally 'hero of workers, and • few plausible use, will turn the election in • oboe oosaUluency. Or the man mu write to their hesdgaar - ters fur sur0t/doer papers if he !tree la the &sentry. •'Efforts should be made to mak• these methods work in wards that give the heaviest .epo.itloo vote. "Harlan oostrol of both sorutineere, a large rote mu be pell.d—dead and ab.ea0 voters, .to , an hate their hallow marked - there le no redress; if beta enrutiners were present. •'O friendly oonstable should be present to keep the poll "leer of trimmers and In- quisitive people. "The deputy returning abater should be a reliable. ,harp and plausible man, e that 11 we do not get orisarol of this oppo- sition scrutineer, he olio. when the oouotleg-time •mires, eek both scrutin- eers to take • Moos of paper end r.00rd the vote of their candidates es he reads the ballots, which hare been emptied on the table. He will then hay• a chanca to read out wrongly, a that • mejarlty Ian ba secured for •ur oandtd•ts. 'Che ballots should be put book In the box as gelokly as they ars read. Th• ext'a ones will do to Ex things oorreotly when he goose home. "Spoiled ballots cad be made sure by a little doctoring. t)ppseltlos ballots can be spoiled by the load out .f a lead period fltened ostler the little finger with bees- wax, drawn unreel opposite our condi- date's same In opening Moot ballot. "If you cannot get control of opposition scrotloere, haus your dello, y returning officer ansounos that les le against you, so as to lead him stray it possible." There is no uncertain sound about these tnetrootbos. Theta Is no mistaking the Import. Every resmhty known to the oorrup0 elsNuu agent must be brought Into play to wlo the electors. Th" vole. of the honest *looter meat net be beard , his veto moat be wrenched from ttlm by book or by crook—with the somas on the crook. How did these ioaraotlong from the 'tory election bosses to Ibst deputy returning officers bs.om. known' Through the ;marts. la 1896 an elelbeo was Pendia, In the esatltaesey of Macdonald, Man. Nathaniel Boyd, of Neep•wa, was the Tory oandldie, and he wag opposed by Charles Braithwaite, • Patron, •od 1)r. Rutherford, the Liberal eandldate. Boyd wanted entry kind of adst.noe and the Con servatire election managers sent up one Freeborn, who carried with him wrltteo Instruotioas from thorn sugvesting his line of setlon. Toe Instrustioas were those above given and wear. pr.dueed In the Manitoba warts, wber. 1 of cos criminals 000lsssed !hely guilt. proteontloae were entered .g.tnel others and • number were omeletted. Whoa Freeborn called upon Nat Boyd, the Tory oa0didate, and, preasmsbly, laid out the plan of campaign. Boyd appears to have 1.d • doubt Y te the bon. Edea of his newly -arrived min - Deign aeisanst, sad he Immediately wired the 'Tory head of .hs -push an that point, to wbloh the lultowiog reply was telegreph- .d. "N. Boyd, "Neopawa,— "H. was first -alas" man la North Br use. "Bonsai Biamin ivaol." This talegram meal hays quieted tbe qualms of eoaol.noe that Nat Boyd bad, for Freeborn Immediately wool to work in the mutest, on the lines laid down In the mstruotlon., asd eventually landed it' JO, with ethers, 11 soy proof were neoeseary that additional rasoahtles were carried out by the Tory party, ander the Tupper reelects In 1876, the figures given by Mir Richard Cartwright In London mowing the tare lnores.e of spoiled tallow In that year, Y against the spoiled ballots lea 1891. 1s strong eyldenoe. The paragraph of Freeborn's toslruotloos rel. Hes to "dooten.," the ballots "with lead pencil fastened under the 11111. homer with beeswax" has .013ently been added slao. 1891, with the following result In the oen- stttueneles named SIDING1891 1896 Lfmbton, Seat 11 133 l.t000ln 62 136 Loodon 29 293 Muskoka 17 175 Perth, South... . . 17 129 Prince Edward 83 115 Waterloo, South .. 21 164 Welllsgtoo, Centre 15 129 1 ork, North d0 101 Norfolk, North 17 114 Addlogton 21 145 Bothwell 11 167 Brant, bouth 23 166 Brockville 29 101 Bruns, F:asl 8 133 Brave, !Neat 18 115 Cornwall `28 103 Orey, North 10 125 Haldims.d , 65 120 Hastings, North 7 140 Kingston 28 215 [eat t7 189 W sllane 16 157 Pt en Worth 8 304 Twenty four ridings. 541 3,658 And these are the rascal" who are today prating •beat electoral purity, and who want to hays the saorodnees of the ballot kept lnvlolee* So anxious wen they to do this that notwithstanding the wording of their owe Iescrnoldons : "Haying .011101 of bath serutfaeere, a large vote own N polled—dead and absent voters oan have their ballots marked - - THxa1IS NO RSDams,1r BOTH SCHUTINEIRS WERB i'ax81NT," they put the country to the trouble and expense of a psruamentary Inv.ettr1nos la the Daae of Watt Hiroo, promising that 1f an investigation were given they would fill the jail with guilty deputy returning efSoen. The result is known. The.000try woo pat to ea expense of 512,000; Many• Teroaw, May 20, 1896. >t and others we will n ro- So produce a few exhibits t he nor his associates are! to set before their hearers, bich nobody can refute. Let's truth and shame the devil : 1818 the Maekenxle 11 meat was wn, owing to the hard times that Niko, and on tie promise of geed limes t the National Policy. l0 1882 the ' flsveromenl was enetetned, not on Its bot bootees of the .fS.oy of the der. 1n 1887 the Tory brume was by the appointment of revising pan to asides the (lerrymander Act. 1■ Des paw legislative bo'rlulty could hs be aid and owlet the party In power, Tory managers toned themselves tip a hard proposition. Sir John's sad physl.•1 powers had felled eon oand It sofeared that the u f s polities! campaign would over etwonoth. A harry o.tl wee sent tate Atlantic to Fir Charles Topper, Men the Casadlan Oemmtesioner la Sir Charles responded te the pall 17 Mame the head and front of eoenpalon of 1891. It was In tale fight and under Tory •nspleee that -stater and the ewtteh.r baronies to Ossedlars palitics, but the work renews se . Woman until the wine wlene«es were szaisloed odder oath, end not ode deputy rstaralag Alio*: was even threatened with arrest. HERE'S ONE FOR MR NICHOLLS• AT the meeting iu the temperauce Hall on Thursday evening last Mr. NictiotM denied the truth of the statement made in • letter to Tex Si INAL that the prohibitionists in this riding were carrying on electioneering on the Sabbath. Here is an Hein from The Liberator, the prohibition organ, of May 16 : "Rev. It. Hobbs, the Methodist minister at Witighaw, came out pretty straight for James Mitchell, the Conservative -Prohibition candi- date in West Huron, last SDNDAY. He is reported to have said : "Mr. Mitchell is a staunch Presbyterian, a Christian worker, and a Christian gentleman, in every way worthy of the support of every member of this church.' Now, Mr. NICHOLII, who is telling the truth I Any temperance Liberal who votes for MITCHELLL in the beliTthat MITCHELL 18 an upright temperance man, is !sure to lose his vote. d Gc ^f47,.. LC 4-•-. '-4 O "'''` / cg," L. lata.' -)v, rn, - •w-7..(�- a__ &-t frkiy elyo.�j� CCs,,. gh�cwt tae... ►h c i,�! r0 ,r / 9-�,-(44 4 _... !•1.�, {� .-til- s- *1-e-/ .,..� A c - 4-,e( 1 t, ���- ••�,; lrl'it, -2:- �1-t, l ..fit,�f- .� l�.�t �� !-'A".,4 r t,t.e ¢ 11i1 Ge.. 'a �►•-. Orth({/ d. a,.. G. � r� 621 Com••- cs-M.."1 kt > C,r ,.. `.,.� pV, lfi Itr..t.4A.. sv/vitt ,i : 4./Va.eso4.e Pt ea.* &..-.rt liki �erA.,r a i,t� rrv, L� Cr ^ Ai e,„„,. --f 1 (,7, -ix €.0te .v -Cr C -c j�--- - .4 ewe( c- wt r- �v��/,/e✓ <-as ., - tTl - /� . C �Nig1.,. — (-i- Z- 1-^ ..L --,1a :4.aewvelCrw�. ,=teal tic � sr... Lam, 1.144 it c�`t' _^,4 .AG.✓,n,✓, .0faiR9 •%1 • t¢ %t _.. �. t cytn „vtv a. �t �•p.1�C of"14 l,t t -bels , q • - ,� >n f vt•.. (�,...r}r.,1.', -1� rte. -ode: y� . 4-nAL 1� � • -4q ••:f. %,r,,R{T u•L�C, C-..- �14-‹saft•w r.✓ ert,,t /� •..<. 44• • • `'�6t t �''�- --_=Sys 46,,L a cooIW 4�i.Vtnc„� c�1a �'Rw f et_ .. LiAt ' 014f fay e-s-vu.t,t5..sl.....` s. - f,.•, tea., ,,,�,» yi4 -sea 4"•71.4‘.01-.4 it 44'10%4'e . _ ea+. t 22.t P1S.k .eAlCaf 1441.:‘ 1▪ 7• 4m. sol:. ke. fir, yta- CRs -a-,, e4- `cc-✓t�t�.�..f .',( 4k „at 741,A) // f:Ps ca.., 4- £ This is a fac-simile of the original instructions given to Freeborn, and produced in court at the trial of the ballot - staffers in the constituency of Meodonald, M•niteba, and sworn to as a genuine document when the ballot- stuffers were convicted. Freeborn admitted on trial that he and others had received the "instructions" from the Conservative organization in Toronto. The same instructions were in force in the Tory "machine campaign" in 1892, when J. C. Patterson wee 'feted in West Huron, and Pridham was seated in South Perth. Neither of thea men warn elected. The seats were "swiped." GOOD FOR HIS COFFIN PLATE. REV. It. HOBBS, a Tory Meth - dist preacher, of Winghani, has this to say of 111r. MITCustt,which will be a surprise to many in this coruer of the vineyard who know the Tory candi- date : "M R. heves LL is a wench Presby- terian, • Christian worker. and • CbrIsUon gentleman, in every way worthy of the support of every member la Ole church." The Reverend Hones is simply talk- ing through his hat for political effect, but his pleasant little fiction about Mr, MITCHELL being such a goody goody man will do to put on Mr. MrrensiL's political codin-plate on the evening of the 29th of May. Vote for CAMERON—the man who is "honest enough to bo bold" about his candidacy, and "bold enough to be honest" in stating where he stands in this caInpaign. Cards asking for vote and influence for JAMES MITCHELL, the alleged "prohibition eon - dilate" are being circ in a number of hotels in this riding. Consistent, isn't it ? POLITICAL POINTERS. A well known tempsr•oee Liberal was sppraohed • few days age by • Uenserva• live. and the following oonesesstb.a sowed. "I suppose you are dolor to vote for the prohibition uanalda5 Lbw Ilene,' said the Cuaasrvatire. am going to vote for the man who will do most for prohibition," wag the reply. ..1t ell, 1 think • prohibitionist like you ought to vote for Mitchell, the prohibition candidate.' "Did you vote tor Holmes Naomi 0. was • prohlbllleolst•" was the rep/hider. "N-no—but 1 had a nettles M." .Wall," gold the 1.10.nl, "I kava • so. Mon to vote for Mlton.11 ; but 1 intend to vote for Cameron." Liberal floadqurtos ON WEST ST. The Liberal rooms, on the north side of West street, will be open from 9 A.M. to 10 r'.etevery day except Sunday. Any person desiring infor- mation or able to give infor- mation as to the campaign is cordially invited to visit the MOMS. ALL FRIENDS WELCOME 1 e FcR.s T 2. THiS BLANK TO BE I/5ED FOR COMMPRCIAL MESSAGES CNC/ Manitou, & North -Wester Railway Co's Telegraph. -71,frx.tml. rs.,I.lea.y,g.-pj%p„t /iMAA1d clic X06 tt�m!ae lerrntand e:Cnd l:�Itt' •.• printed on their Bleak Fors T 1, winch Tera, end conditions hove teen aireed to by the sc..40-.1t the (onow;o8 message Na. OFS. FP,Clef. WN SENT BY A RCII BY X CHECK, F31(1. To re 17 K Toronto, Ont, 1'I. Boyd. Neepowa. ••� -May 20 reM1400'rlttte's".i.- w.- . He was a first class mall. 1n,NOrthhr'ice. Robert Birmingham. To Seta lir. P.OST7. DESPATCH SItt:D AMA TO The above is a facsimile of the original telegram which was went to Nat. Boyd, the Tory candidate in Macdonald, Man., in 1896. A Tory worker named Freeborn, a brother of Dr. Freeborn, formerly of Clinton and now, we understand, of Muskoka, was sent to Manitoba to do the Tory machine act there. When he reached the con- stituency of Macdonald, where Boyd was a e•sndidste, and outlined him plan of campaign, Boyd was seized of a desire to get a political bill of health for the new arrival and telegraphed to Toronto for the bona fides of Freeborn. The answer was : "Toronto, May 20, 1896.—N. Boyd, Neepswa.—lie was a first-class min in North Bruce."—Ronsar BIRMINGHAM." The cut is taken from the telegram that was produced m court, and which was sworn to as a court exhibit. —Mr. CAMERON'S worst enemy can_ not say that he hedges on any public question. He expresses himself both with ability and with clearness, and the elector who votes for him know. what he is doing. Can the same be said of Mr. MITCHELL ---So far the Conservative candi- date hag nut announced a single public meeting. He depends upon the meet- ings held by -the prohibitionists to ring in the temperance vote, while he and his party friends make a personal canvass of the anti-prohibitionista. i iner l-wltneemeet-mea-thireegle the game should have his eyes tested by an oculist. —Every man who desires honesty in election campaign methods should vote for Mr. OAMSRox. His policy on the prohibition and every other ques- tion before the electors is clear cut, while Mr. MITCHELL tries to curry favor with both prohibitionists and anti prohibitionists and is afraid to appear on the platform to announce his policy on other questions. Vote for CAMERox, Ross and Ontario. There is a well-developed rumor abroad that JAMES MIT- (.'HELi. has signed the liquor - dealers' pledge He could sign it aq easily as he did the temperance pledge, and not be worried. •i..e.es neve edit t aufo-ir Ni. ft berry. fn tae Po,,,, ,e of efienfoa ` BRAITHWAITE C•aa.1,r, sea11te All , N .S. T.s• el tons. te P,,,,,,,, ts1 Pr.ve.re oe Msvtot, Fan•, RI TIILRFORD ...r. ria c, earth T.v of This is a fec-simile of one of the ballots marked for the Liberal candidate in MacDonald, Man., in 1896, which Freeborn admitted never got into the box, but wee "switched" and another ballot marked for Boyd substituted and counted. • ';ketion of the Electoral Dm/nit-ofMudotisld. 01196 This is a fac simile of the bogus ballot prodaeed in oovrt during the Mac- donald election trial in Manitoba. It was substituted for the genuine Millet shown shovein taking the photograph of this it will he seen that the ballot is folded up from the bottom so that the initials of Free- born are shown on the back.