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Laa diagrammas suivants llluatrant la mithoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 r J A Few Reasons why the EJectors^ of Should Vote for Mr. John St Reject Mr. Wallace The prosperity of the South Ridmg of Norfolk has hitherto been much re- %krded by the waut of railway^ accom- uwdatioD. The farmers of utkor (lia- tricis, enjoying railway facilities, get better prices for their produce, besides haTing innumeiable oth^r advantages. If ever the farmers in the centre and front parts of the Ridivg are to have a railway, they can look nowhere else for it than to an extension of the HamiUon & Lake Erie Line. There is now every prospect that that road will be ooin- plcted at an early date through to Port Dover. Mr. Stuart is one of the lead- ing Directors of that road ; and since his election in January last has not been idle in trying to extend the line. A few weeks after his return from Parliimeut, he was delegated by the Boards of the Hamilton & Lake Erie and the Hamilton & North -West- Kailway Companies, (he being em ^ PiWdent of the latter,) to go to Eng- land to make financial arrangements for both lines. As the result of his negotiations a Bill is now before the Local Legislature to amalgamate both companies, so as to makt? one Trunk Line from the Georgian Bay to the waters of Lake Erie. This will pre- sent a scheme to English capitalists which they will more readily take hold of than if the lines wore kept separate. The position of the amalgamated com- pany will be this : With about thirty miles of road built, and already earning enough to pay the interest on its bonds, it has also, for the completion of the road from Hamilton northwards, nQox- Ij a Million Bollara in Municipal and Government grants. This is a sound financial basis to begin with, and then it is a fact that both North and South it porary object recklessly makes pro- mises which there may be iitilo hopo or intention of ful61Ung. Tho reason why his follow directors have on so many occasions entrusted hira with such important commissions is, bo- cause they have implicit confidence in the shrewdness of his toresij^ht and soundness of his judgment. To these same qualities in the management ot his own private business does Mr. Stuart owe it to day that he can now afford to devote his entire time to public matters. If, then, the electors see in Mr. Stuart one whose every in- terest is identical with theirs, and ono who can wield an influence both in the Legislature and out of it, is he not infinitely a better man to represent them than Mr. Wallace. As a citizen of Simcoe, the people of South Norfolk know Mr. Wallace well. It cannot be said that he has ever displayed any ability to manage either private affairs or public business in a way to reflect credit on himself. He seems to be one of those unfortunate mortals born under an unlucky planet, in whose hands everything becomes an utter failure. With his private affairs it is not our province to deal ; but as :i public man, asking again to repre- sent the people of Norfolk i* the Legislature, wo have a right to dis- cuss his public record, both past and present. We remember that an at- tempt was made some years ago to FOLK, FOE A NARROW-aAUQE^RAILWAT ^ from Brantford to Dover, by way of SiMCOE, than which there nevor was a more infamous 'scheme attempted to bo palmed off' on an unsuspecting community. The Controlling Spirits prictorsbip of a second or thi newspaper publishetl intlieNc ing. Mr. Wallace livc.i in Sim ccmnty town ; and living tufi ki» interest to draw all tho t can to that place, and conse to prevent the extension of tl ilton road, which would di trade to a better and a iarg ket. If Mr. Wallace woul promote your interests he necessity sacrifice his own, know from the past that m your interests and his are in scales, ho has always tried yours kick th^ beam. Not ho show this in tho Norfolk but he did it when as a m the County Council some y he proposed to levy $l'o J ~^0^ county to improve the mart and build a mechanics* in the town of Simcoe. for Mr. William Wallace' qualification for a seat in P» as member for South Norft; cotomporary, the Evening 1 in a couple of editorials late some light on Mr. Walloc at Ottawa. It appears John A. Macdonald was mindful of the thick support the member f< Norfolk gave him in the H( Wallace was employed two the Intercolonial staff, lie a while under Govern inent on the Ottawa Times, and got a nice little crib in the sariat of the Pacific Survey, from the Times that his a< the latter office are in a ter He left the berth some two a half ago, and the Tunes t •' since then, though he and tl- _ i_j i. __ :i.„ U^.^^li- tc\i n. nif»A liltln Pi-m in thfi immm ctprs of South Norfolk John Stiiari an ii¥allace. !«W jrsbip of a second or third-class paper published in tUe North Rid- Mr. Wallace livet in Siracoo, the :y town ; and living luere, it is nterest to draw all the trade he that place, and consequently event the extension of tho Ham- road, which would draw the > to a better and a larger mar- If Mr. Wallace would. th«)D, lote your interests he must of ssity sacritice his own, and you V from the past that whenever • interests and his are in opposite >8, he has always tried to make •s kick th^ beam. Not only did how this in tho Norfolk Railway, he did it when as a meriber of County Council some years ago oropo&ed to levy $l^.(^0 from the \ty to improve the market hom9 build a mechanics* institute the town of Simcoe. So much Mr. William Wallace's local litication for a seat in Parliament nember for South Norfolk. Our jmporary, the Evening Times, hat* , couple of editorials lately thrown »o li^ht on Mr. Wallace's doings Ottawa. It appears that Sir in A. Macdonald was not un- idful of the thick and thin »port the member for South rfolk gave him in the House. Mr. illace was emploj'ed two years on 1 Intercolonial statf. lie was put rhile under Government patronage the Ottawa Times, and finally he L a nice little crib in the Commis- iat of the Pacific Survey, We leara m the Times that his accounts in ) latter offioo are in a terrible mesa. ) left the berth some two years and lalf ago, and the Times tells us that ince then, though he and a couple of ed. At tke time Mr. Wallace rmigned this latter position he had received lor disbursement the sum of $388,871 6-, and the vouchers filed by him in the Department up to that date accounted for only $142,075 26. After Mr. Wal- lace left there continued until June 30th, 1873, to be charged and credite«i in the same books in his own hand- writing the receipts and disbursements for this service. To that i)eriod the bt^oks show that $584,579 had been re- ceived, and vouchers filed accounting for $373,663; and that f«om June, 1873, to August of the same year there was further accounted for the sum of f ' "i 1,522, leaving at the latter date |>o9,394 unaccounted for, and in re- duction of which no vouchers have since been filed ! "To clear up the accounts ol Mr. Wallace has been a difficult, nay, ap- parently a hopeless task. Since June, 1872, a skilled accountant has been e)igaged on the work, and during the most of the time the assistance of his son, and both together have toiled in vain in order to secure anything like a balance. The deficiency of $59,394 is a large one, and there seems to be no available means of throwing light upon how it has been caused or where the money has gone to. It is not for us to say that Mr. Wallace has wrongfully appropriated any of it, but the cash is not forth- coming, and the vouchors for its le- gitimate expenditure have never been produced. The entries made about Mr. Wal- lace's salary in his latter office ai*e also unsatisfactory. There is no ofiicial docu- ment which fixes its amount ; but his own ledger entries show that it was in- tended to be $1,800 per annum. For the \ear ending the 30th June, 1872, the entries prove he received on ac couut of salary $2,261. Against this amount, he is credited with salary from 15th May, »71, to June30tb,'72— thir- teen and one-half months, at $150 })er month, to the amount of $2,025, and cash advanced in October^ 1871, and January and June, 1872, $564 14.— . I .-„ ^ I •o liltlft pi'il» in thfi (^ommirt- enough to pay the interest on its bonds, it has also, fur the completion of the road from Hamilton northwards, near- ly a Million Dollars in Municipal and Government grants. This is a sound financial basis to begin with , and then it is a fact that both North and South it iravei-ses the best grain-pvodncing re- gion in Ontario, and at its north- em terminus taps the great lum- ber districts, from whence the -A.meri- cansdraw their largest supplies. It will also intersect the whole of the other lines of railw ij — somewhei-e about a dozen in nun>ber — i-unning East and West between Lake Erie and the Georgian Bay ; thus insuring a traffic in the future which will, no doubt, make it one of the most profita- ble roads in Canada. We understand ii is the intention of the Directors again to commission Mr. Stuart to re- turn to England this winter to com- plete the negotiations, previously be- gun ; and there can be but little doubt of his success. That being the case, the contracts will be let at once for the construction of the line northwards from Hamilton, and southwards from Jarvis to Port Dover, at one and the same time. To show that Haoiilton feels a deep interest in the construction of this line, we may say that the nine gentlemen composing the Board of the H. & L. E. Railway, have provided nearly Hal f-a- Million Dollars on their own private responsibility to bring the road to its pres^jut position. They did this in order to prevent the bonds be- ing sold at too low a price, and because they had every failJh in the ultimate success of the road. Your late Repre- sentative. Mr. Stuart, was one of the nine men. Can any elector of Norfolk, then, doubt the sincerity of his pledges to complete the line, at the earliest practicable moment, through the Rid- ing. His interests, as a Hamilton merchant, would prompt him to do so; and if, in addition, he should be Member for the Rvding, there will be that further reason why ho should exert himself to the utmost in the same direction. Mr. Stuart is \ BOL one of those men who for a tem- carry a by-law i'or $200,000 in Nor- folk, FOB A NARROW-OAUOE HAILWAT from Brantford to Dover, by way of SiMCOB, than which there never wasj a more infamous scheme attempted to be palmed off on an unsuspecting community. The Controlling Spirits in that affair wore a ring of Toronto speculators with George Laidlaw at their head. These men put up a few thousand dollars to carry their ne- farious scheme through ; plunder could be their only object, for, as cit- izens of Toronto, they could never hope to reap any direct advantage from the lino, if built. These Sharks entered the County, meetings wore held in every township, and it will be remembered by all — Mr. Wallace was one of their most ready tools. He attended the meetings in every township, spoke in favor of the pro- ject, and did everything he could to impose the $200,000 on the people. He failed, thanks to the good sense of the farmers whom he so basely at- tempted to dupe. Just look at the scheme for which he expected the the county to give so large a sum. While the townships of Charlotteville, Walsingham, and Houghton were in- cluded in the group, the wheel-bar- row road they proposed to build did not touch a single one of them. While the farmers of these town- ships would have had to pay their share of the $200,000, many of them would have had to travel from 30 to 40 miles to get to it, and once they did get to it they could only go a few miles to Brantford, when it would dump them and thoir produce off, to take whatever prices the local buyers of that town might choose to give them. This was the way Mr. Wallace studied the interests of the farmers he now seeks to represent. Mr. Stuart, as a Hamilton merchant, by selling groceries largely to the storekeepers in the county, must ne- cessarily promote his own interests when he promotes yours; and has surely a larger pecuniaijy interest in your welfare than Mr. Wallace, whose ©nly interest in the ceunty is the pro- got a nice little crib \n the uc sariat of the Pacific Survey. W from the Times that his accoii the latter office are in a terribl* He lelt the berth some two ye; a half ago, and the Times tells '' since then, though he and a ci '' aeecuitdints have been nea' "whole of the time struggling t " the balance, there are some " THOUSAND DOLLARS cven yet i '• neither to be found in cash to t " e-nment credit nor accounted " voucher $y This accounts for quency of Wr. Wallace's visit tawa those last two yeai this matter wo await furti velopments, but moantin heartily endorse the senti'.n the Times when it says, " j " duty of the electors of South '* to compel Mr. Wallace to sh " a clean slate in his Pacifii ♦' expenditure before they make " of that Parliament which mt " called upon to sit in enquiry '* work as paymaster." It w interesting to know wheth< startling discoveries in the counts at Ottawa hod any coi with the unusual abundance bills in South Norfolk dur Wallace's last election. Since the foregoing was in ditional light has been thrown Wallace's doings at Ottawa fol'owing article in the Daily THE OPPOSITION CAN] FOR SOUTH NORFO Mr. W. Wallace represent* Norfolk in th<» last Dominio mcnt, but was not a candidal election la.st January. A! Stuart having been unseated, lace IS now a candidate in opp that gentleman. We cannot ly express our surprise at thi- tioned fact. Mr. Wallace be< master on the Intercolonial B January, 1869, and occupied tion till January, 1871, at a $1,600 per annum. From A! 1871, to July 31st, 1872, he — 1 1 „_ A-... i- iL Pacific Railway survey for tl division. In the latter ca] duties was to purchase suppli as pay the salaries of the staf :j lieo liLllo crib in the Uornruis- 3f the Pacitic Survey. Wo loarn he Times that his accounts in -ter office are in a terrible mess, t the berth some two years and ago, and the Times tells us that : then, though he and a couple of uittints have been neaay the salaries of the staff employ- ;j the entries prove he received on ac- count of salary $2,261. Against this amount, he is credited with salary froia 15th May, '71, to June 30th, '7 2— thir- teen and one-half months, at $150 per month, to the amount of $2,025, and cash advanced in October, 1871, and January and June, 1872, $564 14.— This shows a balance due to him on June 3Jth, 1872, of $338 14. On ac- count of this was paid up to November, 1872, $335 33, leaving a balance iu Ids favour of $2 81. Subseqxient en- tries at different dates up to February, 1873, show him to have received on the same salary account $750, and he acknowledges, we understaad, other I)nyments, which do not appear in his ledger, to the amount of $1,025 76. This shows an amount overdrawn, and after he had left the service, of $1,- 775 7C, which, after deducting the bal- ance in his favour, leaves him debtor for $1,772 95. A great many entries prove that the salary fixed uiK)n was what we have already mentioned. So many months, for instance, are again and again mentioned, at $150 per month, in the following style : — 1872, Mar Slst, Salary from Ist January to 31st March, 3 months, at $150 $450 00 Juno 30th, Salary account from Ist April to 30lh Juno, 3 moBtbs, at $150.... 450 00 A subsequent entry, however, writ- ten in pencil, sets down the salary at $200 per month, as if there had been an endeavor to squai-e the account for salary more nearly than was other- wise possible. Even at the higher figure, however, it is evident ho had paid himself more than even he be- lieved was due, by the sum of $897 95. This may bo said to be a small mat- ter compared with the large deficien- cy otherwise apparent in Mr. W.'s accounts ; and so it is. Still it is not creditable to him as a man of honor and a man oi business that there should be such entries at all. These facts tell their own story. They^requiro no commentary of ourp. With such things against him it is surely imprudent in Mr. Wallace to appear as a candidate at all, ard it would be passing strange indeed if the elector-i of South Norfolk should think of putting him into the impor- tant position of their rej)resentative in the Cummons of Canada. We can astonit^hment that he should have ap- peared in the field, and that Mr. Aquilla Walsh, who must know the facts, should stand sponsor for him." / ■»»Wt.»J«,»»-..\ ;