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The Clinton News Record, 1923-6-21, Page 5NO. 220745th YEAR, Clinton, Ontario, Thursday, June„ 21st, 1023.' TIIE HOME -PAPER NOMINATIONS IN SOUTH, AND CENTRE HURON The nomination meeting in Centre Huron took place,9n Cardno's Ball, Seaforth, on Thursday, June 14. The day was dark and threatened rain, but there' was a big crowd in town by two o'clock. The returning officer, Mr: ` A. Mc- Gavin, of Walton, ,presided from 12 noon to 2.•p. -in. At the hour he an- nounced the nomination o -f Win. Robt. Somerville, agent, .John Scott, Sea - forth; E. 11 -Wigle, agent, D. M. Mc- Lean, of 4Goderich; J. M. Govenlock, agent, .James Hinchley, Seaforth. Mr. McGavin was then elected. chairman' for the public meeting and • 'after, much jockeyingfor position by the speakers;lm called upon Mr. Gov- enlock "o speak for ten minutes, with the same time in reply. Mr. Govenlock severely critized the work of the four sessions of the Drury government,and said the last few months became a huge joke., There was :no control..A forrner mem her of the Drury party charged the premier With 'unfaithfulness and ,being, . in the, market. Chaos then broke out. Group government is a failure. He critized the Mother's Pensions. Act fort giving more to mothers •hi the cities than in town .Good roads- are. costing too much money. Broadening out of the. Highway was castigated., The cost was so pretentious the fed- eral engineers would not, pass them. Mr. Govenlock .believed we should, pay as- we go, Education costs had also run up over 300 per cent, and people had to pay the, cost. He blam- ed Hon. P. Smith for wasting money and said he sent a personal friend, who knew nothing about finance over to: sell bonds in. England at cost .of $$4,000 for .50'days. Blamed Drury for no Redistribution. • Win. R. "Somerville said the last goverment was to blame for large debts, but Drury -raised the money .by now taxes which the people did not feel. Doherty lifted', the embargo on cattle and bIr, Raney ,had carried out, the laws most rigorously. If elected' hewould—serve to the best :of his ability. Archie Hislop had no quarrel with Mr. Somerville, but his -statement that Doherty had removed the embargo showed that "he was a good man gene wrong." He convulsed the Lib- erals and Conservatives by'sa'ing that the South Sea Islanders had a legend tha't'. the crowing of cocks was the cause ,of the sunrise and that it was quite as reasonable to believe that Doherty. was, the cause of the en -barge being raised ' He said that people exnected Drury to remove the debt and they had en orm000ly increased it. They spent 28 millions las year instead of the 19 millions spent by Hearst—almost as much as the Dominion government before the war spent.' The debt has increased by 143 millions=a terrible condition for the public. No odds how it is raised, every•cent comes finally from labor and from the farmers. The cost of timber licenses is all charged ,back to everyman who buys lumber The people have to pay and generally those least able have to pay the most Drury `cannot justify the •debt he has imposed IIis government has spent money like drunken sail- ors. . ''Bob" McMillan, Seaforth, the well- known U.F.O. organizer, was the next speaker and said the Liberal 'govern- ment a at Ottawa, was spending more money than Drury. Look at two mil- lion spent in Paris the other day. He said the : farmers were handling the finances of their townships better than the .clever men were doing in towns, He claimed all governments were spending too much money. The claim that tile Liberals had exper ienee, draw the statement= that the. only experience they had was in the cold shades of opposition for a great many years. Mr. McMillap defended tho Claim that Doherty removed the embargo. Mr. Wigle complimented the previ- ous speakers revi-ous.speakers on leaving out person- alities and so far as he was `concerned .he would never stoop to use them.' Mr, Wigle took up the O.T.A. and showed that the Conservative party. was he only' one that gave any'tem- perance legislation. Mr. Mowat in 1854 promised legislation'if the people .were in favor, but though there was a majority vote in favor he did nothing Again in 1902 a similar promise was made with the same result, Nothing was. done until Sir games. Whitney came into power' when by means of 36 amendments - to the Act, people were gradually educated to the bene - 'ft, until the O.T.A: was passed by Hearst._ Mr. Hearst passed the 'Act as a.warmeasures In 1919,,; carrying out his promise, he gave, a referen- dum, and: it was only ingratitude on -the part,' of those who accepted the Ad; to vote against the giver, Re garding the present situation, all the parties were "dry."' Mr. Wigle said he stoofor a strict and impartial enforcemetri of the Act. In private as well as in public he• 'for a rigorous enforcement, so long as it stands on the statutes. 'Referring to the Hydra. the speaker; asked what Carmichael had done to assist the farmers. He was in the cabinet and on the Hydro Comnhs- cion, yethe had not lifted a hand to bring Hydro to 'the farmers. ' He thought people at the centre should pay more and so reduce cost to those far away :Drury had added half 'a million dollars'tortho cost by appoint, ing commissions and paying big salaries to lawyers, hut had nothing to show for it. He had promised to reduce expenditure -•bit had doubled it in four, years. Drury would abolish patronage. He had rewarded every one of the nen who opened seats for himself or Raney or Doherty with the best going, and the other day gave an $8,000 position to J. W. Cur- ry. The timber commission to try to fix something,. on Ferguson had cost Ontario _ $230,000, and all they had to show for it was $170,000, and both Drury and Hay said not a single charge was proven against the integ- rity of Ferguson The present gov- ernment spent two and a quarter mil- lions on • lawyers for work they should have done themselves. Mr Biggs had spent money- like water on the roads, He was so ex- travagant that the federal engineers would not pass his work, and the pro- vince has•to pay. The same is true of schools Drury spent $5 to 'edu- Cate the children in the primary' schools to every $85 spent' on the secondary schools to educate profes- sional men. • Then. agriculture was neglected. Why did they not give 'the farmers every morning the weather bulletins over the phone and twice a week the market reports could be sentat small cost, but nothing was. done, The Backus deal also came in for condemmnation. ` ...Here water power and timber: en 4,906 square miles was given away for 850,000, which should have been sold for 25 million' dollars. Mr. Wigle thought it was time for a change. Mr. Goveniock`repiying, Said the Backus deal was no credit to Druryor Raney. He condemned building culverts at high` prices And blowing them .up a year later. ,Widening the roads was -also condemned: He said ane of the speakers had talked of the seven sleepers,' but we had the "seven tinkers" now, so far .as 'administra- tion went. The giving of fishing. li- censes was also condemned. The meeting closed with God Save The King, and cheers fol' Govenlock. and Wigle. . Official nominations for South Huron - were held in the town hall, Hensall, , Thursday afternoon, and there 'was an immense crowd pres- ent, the hall ;being crowded at the hour of 2, when the nominations were declared closed by the returning of- ficer, Mr, Layton. The .nominees were: W. G. Medd, Centralia, 17.F.0.; b. V, McGregor, Tuckershrtlr, Lib- eral, and Nelson Trewartha,.tlinton, _ Conservative. Mr. Medd spoke for, more than half an hour. Mr. Me - Gregor spoke briefly in the interests of the Liberal party, giving part of his time to Thomas Mc1YIi11an, who spoke in his :behalf, Mr Trewartha made a ` strong appeal, his address being conceded .to be the clearest setting; forth of the present issues heard to date At the close of his, address Mr. Medd was given -fifteen minutes to reply.