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Wednesday. Mardi lith 1891.
AFTER TIIE BATTLE..
Tui (iLD FLAG
THE OLD LEADER 1
THE OLD PARTY !
Have been sustained by the votes
of the people.
The Ministry has been grandly
and emphatically
Endorsed by a majority of over
''orty three in a House composed
of 215 members.
Prince Edward Island gave a
majority of 6 in 1887 for the Opposi-
tion. Ou March 5, 1891 it gave a
Conservative and old flag and
British , connection vote which
reduced the Opposition majority
to 2.
Nova Scotia on March 5, 1891,
gave an old flag, old leader and old
party majority of 11 as against a
majority of 7 in 1887.
In New Brunswick on the 5th of
.lurch 1891 everything tvout lovely
and the annexation goose was hung
high and roasted by a Ministerial
majority of 12 as against 4 tu 1887.
In 1887 Quebec gave a wlnfeterlal
majority of 7. According to reports
at time of writing the vote of March
5, 1891 will give an old flag major-
ity of only 4. This is a very good
ehewing considering that Mercier,
the local premier, moved ''the whole
earth" and got as near moving the
portals of heaven as a bad could get
in order to defeat the supporters of
Sir John A. Macdonald. We will-
ingly break bread with the loyal
people of the Province of Quebec
and heartily congratulate therm in the
consistent stand they took for Con-
servatism) and British connection in
spite of the villainois efforts of vile
laymen to seduce them from their
adherence to British institutions
which have ever been the bulwark of
their liberties since they got rid of
the oppression of Bourbons and
Godless rovolutioniste.
Ontario, Ontario, how we would
have more completely gathered you
under the folds of tbe Old Union
Jack and given you more credit for
that superior intelligence which has
on manifold occasions been the boast
of thy sous. But this Province was
so overrun by renegades from with -
net and traitors from within, whore
it were scarcely possible to convince
you were the lying demagogues
which Hon. Edward Blake and those
who know then) hest told you they
were, that you are rather to ter bo
pitied than condemned for your
faith in the virtue and loyalty of
those who deceived you.
However, with all they faults,
Ontario, we love the still,® though
you did reduce the majority fur all
that which the greater part of thy
people love and reverence. 'l'he
results of the voting on March
5 sheaving only a majority of
supporters for God, manhood and
country of 8 as against 18 in
1887. What a falling off has there
been there, my countrymen I
Manitoba gives a majority for
the old flag and against annexatiou
of three, Baron as in 1887, with a
chance of 4 according to latest ac-
counts.
c-
counts.
North-West Territories send a
full contingent of 4 as formerly,
British Columbia stands firm by
the first half of its name and re-
turned a full delegation of 6 on
March 5, 1861.
ROBERT PORTER.
To all appearances at time of writ-
ing Mr. Porter was defeated in the
recent contest with Mr. M. C. Cam-
eron for the honor of t'opresentieg.
West Huron in the next Parliament
of the Dominion of Canada.
The defeat of 1tr.Porter is almost
a national calamity. He was one
of the not over -numerous statesmen
in the late House. His country's
interests were alway his animating
motives, The very soul of personal
honor his_ votes in the House stamp-
ed him as a public man whose con-
eience;r'evolted at parliamentary pet-
tifoggery and parish politics when
legislation was demanded in the in-
terest of the gregarious multitudes
forming this Dominion.
He silted on the principle of even
and exact justice to all so far as the
the limits of our constitution per-
mitted and demanded. In prohi-
bition and other moral questions his
voice and his vote was ever found
on the side of God and country.
For this he was punished by the
withdrawal of a very considerable
support ho formerly received. In
railway and fiscal matters he was al-
ways found on the right side -the
side of progress.
Then he estranged the ultra -pro-
testant vote in this riding by his
fearless support of the constitution-
al rights of a Province as against the
illegal exercise, by the Federal par-
liament of a usurped power, to vio-
late the constitution throngh and by
which ;only, itself it has any
power at all. We refer to the mis-
named Jesuit Bill. This never
cams up in the Federal parliament.
It teas a Quebec Act within the
competency of that Province. Mr.
Porter voted in support of the right
of that Province as guaranteed by
the constitution. His statesmanlike
action cost hire the lose of many
votes.
Again, when Orange Incorpora-
tion came up, he displayed the same
intelligentand just acumen and sup-
ported this measure, which merely
granted ordinary constitutional
rights to a class of men in every
way entitled to them and capable of
exercising them to the disadvantage
. of none. Hie honest staternanship
in this matter cost him scores of
votes.
Breifly speaking we may
say that ho was defeated be -
because he did not get the
votes which on strict party lines and
in all fairnoes,honesty and gratitude
should have been cast for hien.
1. Because he voted for condition-
al prohibition. The theorists and
fanatine holding he had not gone
far enough ; the liquor men that he
bad gone too far.
2. Because he would not vote to
override the will of the people and
repeal the Scott Act.
3. I3ecause he voted against cen-
suring the Goverumeut of Sir John
A. Macdanald for nob advising the
Goveruor General to violate the eou
stitutian in order to oheck Roman -
ism in quehec.
4. Balsamic he voted for Orange
Incorporation which gave equal
rights to those oapoclalty opposed to
Romiale aggreseion.
On account of uureaeonabls
prejudice against a uun rusidout
member, his opponent being a per-
sonally popular local man.
6. All these influenced were sun•
pletnented by the most virulent G.
'1'. Railway antagonism in order to
strike the Government, through
Robert Pot•ter,for faucied grievances
of the Company.
7. Opposition B$O$O$D$L$E.
MR. BLAKE'S REPUDIA TION.
Hon. Edward Blake addressed a
letter to his former constituents,
previous to the elections, giving his
reasons for not remaining in public
life a supporter of the party which
he was formerly leader of. Fur
prudential reasons the letter was
withheld from the public. Since
the elections the letter has beau
published. It is much to be regret-
ted that the letter was not publish-
ed before the elections as it is au
absolute repudiation of the ite-
form policy. A few extracts will
show this.
EXTRACTS FROM MR. BLAKE'S LETTER
OF FE13Y. 6, 1891.
Yet, plainly, the issue which the
party has thought fit to tender fur
the judgment of the electorate is
that of Unrestricted Reniprocity, or
absolute free trade with the States ;
an issue which has been maintained
ae"the sole party plank" ever since
it was put forward in 1887.
Being at that time in Europe, I
wrote, and after lily return fully
stated to leading Imes nay views ou
this head.
It• was agreed thet,uuless the con-
ditions should change, it would
clearly be my duty,when called ou
to address the constituency, to snake
known those views ; but the desire
was expressed, in the party interest,
that they should not be then pub-
lished.
Having decided to yield to every
wish of my friends compatible with
honor, and hoping against hope that
some tura of events Wright ameliorate
a situation to One most painful, I
yielded to this wish.
So much premisod,let me tell you
what I think.
In our present political condition,
a moderate revenue tariff, 'approxi-
mating to free trade with all the
world, and coupled with liberal
provisions for reciprocal free trade
with the States, would bo, if
practicable, our best arrange -
went.
But -though we may and should
greatly improve our tariff, whose
defects, anomalies and oppressions,
very serious in 1886, have been
much aggravated since ; and though
we may and should substantially re-
trench the public expenditure -yet,
se explained at Malvern, the result
of our policy for the last 13 years is
that we shall be compelled for an
indefinite time to raise the bulk of
an enormous revenue by high duties
on imports.
On the other side it seems to
bo the settled policy of the
States to decline a lilnited recipro-
city.
So that what would be best is not
now attainable.
The tendency in Canada of un-
restricted free trade with the States,
high duties being maintained
against the United Kingdom, would
be towards political union.
Without needless lengthy re-
capitulation, you will Bee, by con-
trasting my views with those of the
present advocates of free trade with
the States, several serious questions
of difficulty and difference -for
example, uniformity of tariff, and
its control ; deficiency of revenue,
and ite supply -on which I am un-
able to adopt their opinions.
Assuming that absolute free
trade with the States, beat describ-
ed as Commercial Union, may and
ought to come, I believe that it can
and should come only as an inci-
dent, or at any rate as a well under-
stood precursor of political union ;
for which, indeed, we should be
able to make better terms before
than after the surrender of our corn -
mercial independence.
Theu, so believing -believing
that the decision of the trade ques-
tion involves that of the oonetitu-
tional issue, -how can I properly
recommend you now to decide ou
Commercial Union 1
1t has caueeil me deep distress to
differ from my political friends.
Now, while unable to fight under
false colors, neither can I endure,
at the very height and crfsie of the
battle into which a wrongful disso-
lution has unexpectedly plunged
the Liberal party, to take a different
tack, or to turn one hostile gun
egaiuet the well loved t'riende, in
whose corupauy, whether tw com-
rade or commander, I have nailed ao
many stormy seas, and fought ao
many but eugagefu•euts.
TRIUMPHAL MARCH OF THF
CAMERON MEN.
Friday afternoon Mr. \I. C.
Cameron, supposed member elect
fur Weet Huron, was suet at the
Cliutun St'itiuu, ou hie arrival from
Gudetich, by a couaidorable number
of the faithful. Suave drove, some
walked up town and probably
thirty congregated at t.heCeinmercial
hotel aluug with the eoequering
hero Canietuu. It was quite a
motley crowd. There ware private
bankers and public officials ;
lawyers ; godly and ungodly ;
dudes and the gr.,•it nu -
washed ; aged man and ye,uug wee ;
those to whom the rosy wine was as
distasteful as the juice of the hem-
lock and those who• regarded
stimulants as ant)ug the best of
creature comforts ; those to whom
the fumes of tobacco were as uaueeat-
ing ea the stench from Gehenna and
those to whorl the fumes of the
weed ware as the very attar of roses.
But all seem ad to muse,
"Methinks it i•a g )oJ to be hare
"For wine or for water ; tobacco or beer,
"Our morals to the winds we will throw,
"Arid our appro AI of temper,,I e .how,
"By 'smiling' with that groat teetotal man -
"And idol of the W.C.T.U.-51. C. Camera).
"Let the fountains weep in crystal rills
"Thu juice that from old r) e distils,
"And through our sluggish Grit ,eius flaw,
"And warm us up for this great moral show."
Silence broken, loud was the applause
For the champion of the teaaperanec cause.
Cameron thus courted and caressed,
High placed in her --a welcome guest -
Liberal libation; poured to Bacchus
A�d challsnte1 Tory Templars to "attack us,"
While he and friends made merry at the bar,
Though ridiso to item a temperance car.
But life is short and the march of
the Cameron men had to be con-
tinued. Ile -forming, the, motley
crowd started to pay their respects
to Spooner's hostelry, humming :
"Th., way W114 long, the wind was cold,
".and our temperance candidate inarm and old,
"Ne'er did we think we would get'•thar,"
"fiat thanks to teetotalism and the 1.r
"Cameron has beaten prudery and Porter,
"Which in truth and righteousness he 'oughter.'
"Hound loud the trumpet for beer and for wine ;
"Let boodle and temperance forever shine !
"Until, from Halifax to [Ake Huron in the west,
"Bribery and beer shall be relished with it zest
"That shall rid the land of every Tory band
"That may endeavor to stay our hand."
\filne's
Lotel was next visited by
Mr. Cameron and hie admiring
friends and the compliments of the
occasion duly recognized. Return-
ing to the central part of the town
the Pattenh'ry house was looked
at askance, and the triumphal pro-
cession paraded past wrapped up in
the righteous wrath born of disdain
for an institution the proprietor and
manager of which could act the
double parte of hotel keeper and
Tory. And this in faco of the
alleged fact that they oma their
license to the grace of that great
and good man, Premier Mowat,
author of "Tho Evidences of
Christianity." In the next edition of
that remarkable work it might be
euggeated to the author to refer to
his Christian forbearance toward
Tory hotel keepers.
Lack Kennedy's and Bell's hotels
were also respectively visited by
this heterogeneous mass of animated
nature, captained by Mr. Cameron,
the various elements composing it
having since Be first formation
brought out ite component parte
into more positive relief, so that the
lights and ehadowe of the various
patterns were snore easily dis-
tinguishable. It was happily
mosaic in design and all the more
picturesque by the irregularity in
movement, form and position bf the
various parts. However, one touch
of personal magnetism makes alt the
world akin, and when Mr. Cameron
curled the smoke so beautifully from
hie immense havana and it was
wafted in the closely packed bar-
rooms among the faithful
One never heard sic clitter.ctatter ;
And were we called to explain the matter,
Wo should say than nicotine twas Netter ;
Nor caused by smoke or cattier water.
Each fain would gar hie nelbor think
He thirsted more for goodness than for drink,
Yet there seemed an unco Jearth o' grace
As bumper after bumper found its proper place.
In charity to all and malioe
toward none we draw a veil over the
concluding proceedings on the way
to the station, from whence Mr.
Cameron returned to Goderich,
merely remarking that one enthus•
iaetic "loyalist" grasped Mr. Cam-
eron's hand on the way and remark-
ed. "This great moral show is not
solely given you to show our appre-
ciationof your teetotal principles,
but for your defence of that murder-
ed "loyal" man, Riel.
-Mr. U. tV. Korn, who opposed 31r.
Sutherland in North Orford, loses hie
deposit,
-fwelmasked men sot fire to the furni•
tura factory of Bess 'Bros, Listowel yes•
terday morning, first Wading and gagg-
ing the watchmen. The factory anti a
lot of other property was destroyed.
THE, VOTE. IN WEST HURON
Though t1" offieiial .irularatiuu llaa
been made, Tbureday being the day
fixed fox opening the ballot Loxes
and Bumming up, it ie thought the•
following figures will he approxi-
mately cue rect :
CAM HEWN . PORTER.
Aahfi.'ld 181 ...
Colborne....,. 70
Clinton 12 ...
G"deriob .. 66
W. Wawaaosh1 1 1 .
j Wawanoah 103
Goderloh township167
54:3 167
tf •j rrity for Cameron 376
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Well, though a eulBcient number
of the free anti independent of
West Huron may have been bought
or Hold or deceived or betrayed or
coerced to foot up a very respect-
able majority for M. C. Cameron,
all ie not lost. A senee of national
honor and =an exhibit of British
plunk is shown by a large Gover•n-
meut majority from Halifax to Van-
couver, returned to support the per-
petuity of Canadian institutions and
British connection and the control
of our own Tariff.
Let's see. Feet. years ago the
Government of Sir John A. Mac-
donald opened P.trliarrteot in a
minority of one. So said the
Globe. But he wound up business
with a majority of 47. Next Parlia-
ment, the Globe admits, will be
opened with a majority of 26 for
the old man. If Sir John's majority
increases in next parliament iu the
same ratio as in the last, he tvould
have a majority of over 1000 at the
close of the next your years.
"It was mighty easy telling who
won the victory in West Huron last
Thursday. The disgraceful scenes
of four years ago were not ru vogue
this tinge." Thus saith the Goderich
Signal. Would it be out of place
to remark that the absence of Mr.
Cameron in Clinton might account
for the omission of the disgraceful
scenes of four years ago in Goderich.
Lightning is said to not strike twice
in the same place. That of the
Jereey kind included.
•
Sir John may not be much to
look at but lie is a rare "un" to go
and increase his speed. With one
of a majority at last election he in-
creased his speed until at the end
of the late parliament he had a
majority of 47. The (dobe concedes
him a majority of 25 to start with
thio time. Anxious, inquiring
friends will please consider the
procreative multiplication of 47
now as against a beggarly germ of
1 four years ago, and get a six year„
old boy to tell them how much 25
will:increase next'4 years if 1 increas-
ed to 47 in that time past.
Hon. Edward Blake's letter sever-
ing his connection with the Reform
party, which appeared in the city
dailies of Friday last, its 8 master-
piece, in many of its expreasione, of
a successful endeavor to use the
greatest volubility of language to
conceal his real thoughts. The
honest convictions of the man may
be gleaned from a few extracts
which we give in another column.
The eubatance of the letter is that
the Reform party has adapted a new
platform having but one plank,
and that plank unrestricted reci-
procity. If we could have unre-
stricted reciprocity, Canada being
left free to make her own tariff, the
country would prosper and Mr.
Blake would rejoice. But such an
arrangement is wholly impractic-
able. Mr. Blake is fully satisfied
that any possible scheme of unres-
tricted reciprocity involves not only
differential duties, but a common
tariff, "abolishing international cue
tom houses, and dividing the total
duties between the two countries
in agreed proportions." Such
unrestricted free trade with the
United States, high duties being
maintained against the United
Kingdom, would tend toward
political union. Under theeo
circumstances, lie feels that he can-
not support the party. To uee his
own worde :-
"I have feared from tbe beginning
that every hour's fighting in the contest
which ends on March 5, most widen the
rift between tie : and that its close must
leave me isolated in opinion, and de-
prived of any right to expect your con-
tinued confidence.
It is estimated that the Govern•
nlent tnajoritfes throughout the
Dominion total 52,000 ; the opposi- bia, apply to any C. P. R. Agent.
ere
Emulsion
OF
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AND THC
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No other Emulsion is so
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It does not separate nor
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It is always sweet as cream.
The most sensitive stomach
can retain it.
CURES
Scrofulous and
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Chronic Cough.
• Loss of Appetite.
Mental and Nervous
Prostration.
General Debility, &c.
Beware of all imitations. Ask for
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all others.
PRICE 60C, ANO $1 PER BOTTLE.
tion majorities 20,000. That is
over 260 per cent more votes were
cast for the Tories than fur the Grits.
Even this ie no ctitr•rion of the real
patriotic Canadian sentiment as
opposed to the bartering' or sidling
our independence to the Yankees.
Tens of thousands of true, l,.ttriutic
British Canadians vot.-d fur Opposi-
tion candidates and convert teensou
unwittingly. Nleti whorl ltnal they
read \1r. lllakte's manifests :vuuid
have acted as he (lid t13,1 taken
n,'ilht r lot nor ltr't tvillh Coo hitn.l-
ful of foreign agitators and ltulne
traitors who, with the Satanic
iugeuuity of the etch t ucrny of
mankind, au successfully gilded the
annexation pill that it was swallow-
ed without tt grimace.
;Members of the Cabinet...got in by
the following majorities in
1887 1591
Sir John Mewlonnid 17 474
Sir Bettor L'ngevio.... :30 210
lion. Mackenzie B )well...1,041 226
Sir Adolphe Caron 259 271
Hon. lohr, Carling 39 defected
Ron John Costigan 08 7.39
Hon. J. A. Chaptean... 785 500
Sir John Thompson. 40 254
Hon. O. E. Plater ... 475 30
Hon. J. O. Battu"'t 882 (66
Elan. C. C. Colby 434 defeated
Dewdney and C. H. Tupper wale
elected by acclamation when raised
to the Cabinet.
Hon. C. 13. Tupper 743
Hon, Mr. Dewdney 488
PURELY POLITICAL.
Dr. Rlatt of Prince Edward and
Dr, \Vileon of Etat Elgin scuffed at
loyalty and shirked the vote un the
Mulock loyalty resolution. 'Their
attitude towards the 01d flab helped
to hoist them out of Parliament..
Two elections are yet to he held,
IIuntingdon, a Grit stronghold,
where voting will.1ake place on the
23rd inst , and Algoma, which is
safe Conservative, the date of which
has not yet been aunonnced.
Although eneceesful in South
Brant, \1r. Paterson, as a matter of
fact, polled 254 votes less than last
election. It will title be poen that
there was no v-ry grant desire for
Unrestricted Reciprocity in his
constituency.
The old Grit representatives from
New Brunswick rind Nova Scotia
were returned by electors who
opposed Confederation. The young
men who have come of age since
Confederation etre Canadians and
hence the support given Sir John
in the recent contest..
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