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"t— .• ■ ^ . , ■'.'' _■■""■> '' 1 ■ ■ !- "To make tho Rich Han lUcher, and the Poor Man Poorer." f\ r . ,v}^i' lujilic Archives ot t.ova ScttHi HAT.it AX, JANUARY, 1878. \ \ fi'l-i. ■.■'-\ :•' .. ,- v. '-5. •■■■ 5.1'*! ' ;. . '. Jii/ ■■ i-'^ f- J . * . .* fi.-i. ••• /•; jT ti ;■'■»' " - r-.' f V » » • ''J *■ *,V , , mImmu ^ .»>* ^ . ,n f- * « •J!-'-5^ 4,4. .iji j;. ft 1. jj i, ,';. ; ( • / ,n Matthew fl- Uichey, Esq. : Dear Sir, — When you invited me to vote for you at the coming election, it occuned to me that you were unqonscious of the position in which you have allowed yourself to be placed by a few unreas- onable men in this city. I am quite sure you have never, for one moment, fully comprehended the keen intelligence of this constituency on public matters. You have somehow, I observe, /alien into the error of sup- posing that you can escape taking a well-defined position in the contest. Any other course, however, M^ould be deceptive and dishonorable. And you must excuse me for saying that about the only qualitlcation claimed for you, even by your friends, as a representative for Halifax, is respectability. You must be aware how you came to be selected. It was decided by a few disappointed politicians that it would not do to bring out a man who was in any manner soiled by the ,; ,) . ''*■'■ PACIFIC SCAMDAI.. A respectable merchant was applied to and refused. The most prudent men of the Opposition had, from the first, ex- pressed themselves satisfied to permit Mk. Jones to go to the House of Commons unopposed. When you were first approached by the Hon. James Mc- Donald (who could not get a nomination) you declined. Mc- Donald distinctly pointed out how it was possible to avoid raising any issue as to the character of the public men whom you wish to get into power. He pointed out how you could pretend you were standing on your own bottom and yet receive all the Opposition votes. Still fearful that direct issues would be raised, and that you might be invited to meet a critizing public, you hesitated. Then it was that Dr. Tupper was appealed to, and, still reluctant, you hesitated. You had expressed yourself positively in favor of deferring any contest till next summer. And it was not until you found that you would be passed over by your new friends that you consented to take a plunge into that stream which has buried forever the political hopes of many an aspiring politician. I admit you would have preferred a nomination to support the McKenzie Government or any other honest Government ra- ther than one organized by Sir John McDonald, Peter Mitchell and Charles Tupper, but you cannot help seeing that those intp whose hands you have got are the reckless followers of these three public characters and you cannot point out to me a single ringleader of those who was not instrumental in victimizing Donald Robb who had, you must admit, a better knowledge of public matters and was a better speaker than you. In your card you invite a *• declaration of want of confidence in the present administration," and although you there expli- citly declare your adherence to the Liberal Conservative party, you endeavored in Temperance Hall to shirk the responsibility of the conduct of your leaders. You are evidently not accus- tomed to writing election cards, and I have no doubt you would now gladly revise your fij-st production. Sir John McDocald has in his day, though now rapidly growing old, buried politi- cally more of such aspiring and incautious men as you appear to be than would fill your small committee room. In 1866-7 you and others who were captivated by the idea of CONFEDERATION. never dreamed at first of giving up our independence in viola tion of the will of the people. John A. McDonald, who had for some time lost the confi* dence of the Upper Provinces, and whose days of power were nearly numbered, was the evil spirit who found no difficulty in inspiring a Tupper against the earnest appeals of many honest men in the Confederate camp to stifle the voice of the electors. That was the very first time the hand of the Tory Chief was felt in our affairs, and that brought us to the brink of revolu- tion. His chief object was by burying old issues to keep him- self in power. Do you think that record gives him any claim to the support of you or any other Confederate among us ? I think not. The British North America Act having been carried by him and his allies, the people of this Province were ready to walk straight out of the Union. Joseph Howe was then in the full vigor of his life and the power of his intellect. The shock was too much for him, and — in body and mind — ho broke down. In that condition he was induced by McDonald to give up his old opinions and the cherished friendships of a life time, and the curtain too soon fell on one of the saddest scenes ever enacted on the political stage. Mr. Howe sacrificed his own position to prevent an insurrection, and Sir John Mc- Donald with all the power and prestige and intrigue at his command in four years lost the honest and voluntary support of the new Dominion from one end to the other. In 1872 he dared not appeal to the honest sentiment of the country. You know just what he did. He sat deliberately down to prepare a scheme to debauch the constituencies of his country. Three hundred and sixty thousand dollars were secretly used in carrying the elections of 1872. You gave your independent vote with all the corrupted ones ca:(t here in Halifax at that time. You were not aware of the gigantic frauds carried on under cover of a .1 -'M ,i ii :i.ii PACIFIC RAII<^¥AY. You and I have discovered all that since. Do you think, Mr. RicHEY, that you can now deceive the simplest elector in Hali- fax County ? When the news of the exposure of the wide- spread corruption of the elections of 1872 swept over the country, men looked into each other's faces with alarm. Premier McDonald, in the first frenzy of the moment^ made a most solemn and emphatic denial. He called God to witness that his hands were clean ! A good many weeks passed before Lord DufFerin could realize that this was a deliberate lie. According to your card you want to put the Government out and put other men in. Who are the other men ? Don't for a moment pretend that you have not made up your mind. I observe with hope- f 6 fulness that you are ashamed to admit it — but you cannot deny that there is a most desperate though hopeless struggle going on in certain quarters to bring hack to power McDonald, Langevin, Tupper and Mitchell. How did you vote in January, 1874 ? Your nightly prayer and your daily struggle — the feverish desire of your mind blinded for the monient by political passion and vanity — is now to put somebody into posses- sion of the Public Treasury and humbly follow and support them. The general election, you remember, was in January, 1874. How, I ask you, did you vote ? The same men who nominated an opposition to Alfued Jones then have nominated you now. He was returned by a majority of tioo thousand one hundred and forty-Jive, to stamp out the disgrace brought on us by Sir John McDonald and his colleagues. Are you now inviting me to put these men in again ? Why, these 'men were overthrown by a perfect hurricane of popular indignation for personal corruption. Professor Goldwin Smith declared the transaction •* worse than simple theft," and insisted that if its perpetrators were to escape, the doors of our prisons should be thrown opeu for the poor and sorely tempted criminal who had not at any rate betrayed a high public trust. This you read , in January, 1874, and I again ask you whether you voted for or against these high-toned politicians on that occasion ? Have you any promise that they have reformed ? Are they coming back to do the very things they were turned out for doing ? Is there one man who will vote for a repetition of the transactions which at the time drew upon Canada the eyes of the civilized world — transactions so startling, so shameful, so inexcusable as to awaken the unanimous condemnation of the great press of England ? What would be the excuse in other countries for bringing back these men ? These men have less prospect of returning to power than you have of becoming an Archbishop. Do you not know such a change would shock the moral sense of independent public men abroad ? But let me come home. What excuse have you to offer to your own conscience as a Canadian and a christian man ? You call yourself respectable. I know there have been 'i^n •i-i!:ii- Id, [he )rt a few — very few — Instances, even of men calling themselves ministers of religion, who have pretended to justify nil the swindling and frauds which have been unearthed by the Gov- ernment and Parliament for the last four years, but — well, I M'ill not go into that now. Has there been offered one single word of contrition or re- gret for the bold and scandalous and infamous transactions of ministers, raising money on a pledge to recoup it at the expense of the public works of the country, for the purpose of corrupting and debauching the public electoral mind and conscience ? You talk glibly about " the principles professed by the I.IBERA£. CO.^t^EKVATlYE PAKTV • being sincerely und firmly held." What do you mean by a " Liberal Conservative ? " Are you aware that phrase was in- vented by Sir John McDonald? Are there any 7iew principles or new men ? None whatever. The policy of that party — in office — has been, and would bfc, on becoming odious to the country, to secretly organize, at all hazards, a fraudulent return to power. You should speak out distinctly, and more clearly define a " Liberal Conservative." ho is the Liberal Conser- vative you want to take the reins of power ? I could better un- derstand your position if there had been repentance and re- forniy but the boldness, the confidence with which you seem to take it for granted that the public admire Liberal Conservatism — a delicate phrase for corruption and fraud, in high places — entirely surpasses my comprehension. You have, I regret to say, the same men — the same policy of proHigacy and corruption openly and exultingly avowed. Your leader in Parliament has defied Canadian public opinion by the lamentable and unblushing declaration that he had the solace of the example of Walpole in all his use of money, and you know he was the most scandalously corrupt statesman who ever pros- tituted the position of Minister in England. You have the same men, the same policy, the same danger to the public credit and the character of the country — and what is most im- portant — the same baneful, unmitigated example of successful /I ) \\ 8 political fraud, before the eyes of the rising young xfken of Canada, and before those children of yours and mine whom Mr. Tupper is so very anxious to save from the payment of interest. You would repeat in the history of the New Domin- ion the dark blot which stains its first page, and render the experiment of self-government under Federation here in the North a bye word and a scandal in all parts of the globe for many generations to come. If the exposure in 1873 of electoral ministerial corruption in 1872 had closed the record of political iniquity by the lute go- vernment, your present attempt to stagger under the weight of their sins would not be so humiliating as it really is, but each succeeding month has revealed some clumsijy concealed pecula- tion of the past. You are familiar with them all. They are NOT CASES OF DOl BT. Every hideous feature and lineament of each despicable transaction has been exposed like repulsive corpses in the face of Parliament, beyond the possibility of evasion. So dam- ning and crushing has been the effect that the policy of con- cocting countercharges has been found more profitable than denial or palliation. No repeated chnllenge by Premier Mc- Kenzie for Parliamentary investigation — no persistent straight- forward and explicit course of complete refutation — not even judicial investigation and criminal convictions of the slanderers will silence the throats of " Liberal-Conservative " orators when out of the reach of detection. •. : , i Peter Mitchell is one of the men whom it appears to be your ambition to follow. You must excuse me for informing the public what you know as well as I do about him. He was Minister of Marine — an office which you want to get for him again, and which you will get for him if you and others manage to turn out the Government. Peter Mitchell does not profess ^o be a moralist or a reformer. I am bound to confess that you would not have done what he did. He pretended he wanted ¥' 9 A I.I«HT MHIP for Halifax harbor. He hod a brother-in-law in England — Iluwes. As Minister he sent there to order this vessel — of 130 tons. She tvas floated across the Atlantic, and I believe appeared at the mouth of Halifax Harbor. She was useless, and was taken somewhere up the St, Lawrence out of our sight. The cflicial Journals have informed you that she was one hundred and thirty tons, that Mitchell employed his relative to procure the vessel, that he paid for this service a large commission, and that he took out of the Treasury one hundred and thirty thousand f/o//ar« and sent that sum to Mr. Hawes. All this you and I know. How much was paid for the vessel none of us know. We know he never paid the enormous price of $130,000.00. He never could have paid the half or quarter of that sum. I can form no idea why you want to get Mr. Mitchell into ofHce. If you had asked me to vote for you, to keep him out I could have understood you. We also know that Mr. Mitchell was not satisfied in confining his transactions in England with his brother-in-law to his own department. One Hector Louis Langevin was Sir John's Min- ister of Public Works at the time. This man absorbed $25,- 000 or $30,000 of Sir Hugh Allan's money, but it is not believed that he was even honest enough to spend it in paying it to electors. He put it into his pocket. Mr. Carvell, in Lan- gevin's department, was another of Mitchell's brothers-in-law, and among them they employed Mr. Hawes to buy STEEIi RAILS tor the Intercolonial Railway — 6000 tons. The Reform Gov- ernment detected that the purchase of these rails in the name of the brother-in-law was only a cover to obtain money from the Treasury, and commenced an action to expose the fraud in England. For a long time Mr. Hawes evaded service, but at lengtlf a judgment was recovered for twenty thousand dollars. Another transaction of twenty-five or thirty thousand also came to light and another suit was commenced, and, I believe, judg ment has recently been obtained in that case. fr 10 In the case of the present Government, the rails were pur- chased, not at the recommendation of Carvell, who was dis- missed from office, but at the request of Dr. Tupper's friend, Mr. Fleming, who was not dismissed. They were bought for $54, while the others cost $S5 per ton And 1 believe Mr. Fleming wa3 telling the truth when he said it was necessary to order them long in advance, as it would take a year to get them con- veyed to their dista;it destinations. Even if Mr. McKenzie made a blunder, does not all Canada know as you do, and re- joice as I do, thut we have an honest Minister, and a far abler statesman than any of his opponents. I have said nothing about your throwing yourself into the ! (I w 'i< ;>ii.« were pur- was dis- i"'8 frientl, bought for I'. Fleming to order them con- McKenzie 3, and re- . far abler into the 5 between -•ellan in ' " High Adams the mis- len this he in- write a tieman. ow Mr. The ing the trans- 1 shew- ssioner e two public lall be e in a could s bar- pook- i 11 '* eted, talking of his share in the transaction in tones of Chris- " tian humility characterizing it as an act of virtuous abue- "gation." ^^^ , ^ If I correctly recollect you were present in the gallery cheer- ing Mr. Archibald. You may perhaps remember he appealed to the House :— " If the Government be allowed to violate the law and any " future Government should place their hands in the Treasury •• for selfish or corrupt purposes the pieople of that day will have " a right to point to you and say — ' The turning point was with " you. If you had done your duty this precedent would never " have been followed.' " Archibald's resolution was defeated and Tupper was transfer- red to the Ottawa Government, which we very naturally expect to detect making money out of other Railways. Heaven only knows to what extent. THC: WORTIIEKN RAII^^VAY owed the late Government, and the Government was about to write off a large portion of the debt. This was the opportunily to compel that corporation to come down handsomely. Mr. McKenzie suspecting frauds issued a Royal Commission and the following sums were proved last winter, as you know, to have been corruptly pocketed by persons ** in " or engaged in cor- rupt schemes " of** the Ministry : Drawn for Sir F. Hinck's election . T. ;T\'^': '. Ti '. $1,000 00 Paid for Sir John's testimonial 2,500 00 Paid for support of Sir John's newspaper 2,000 00 Drawn for J. B. Robinson's election (supporter of Sir John) 5,440 00 Paid Election expenses, 1872 (Lib.-Con.) . .* 1,000 00 Paid J. B. Cumberland's election, 1873 4,166 90 Paid for Parliamentary expenses 3,750 OG Paid Hewitt Bernard, 1868 500 00 1 ne above are some of the items. A Committee of Parliament last year reported that Twenty- seven Tho sand Dollars of the people's money had been cor- ruptly drawn. This included the money paid for the Testimo- nial, and so inexcusable vere the frauds that they were admit- ted by Sir John and Tupper, and a vote passed without oppo- % I', j IS ■ ) sition for the re-payment to the Treasury of $27,000, which has been refunded. You and I heard the quantity of pathetic arithmetical calculations poured out by Tupper, the other night, about the amount of interest our children must pay for the mis- takes of the present Government. It is a satisfaction to us as it will be to them to know if Mr. McKenzie continues to secure returns of money fraudulently abstracted by the " Liberal- Conservative** party before you restore them to power the bur- den of our poor children will bo som&what diminished. Yok have raised old issues by adopting the men who have never purged themselves of old crimes. I would really like you to say in case you succeed in getting out the Government and getting Sir John and Tupper in, what you propose to do with the numerous suits * pending for recovery of public money. Take for example the SECRET SERVICE FRAUDS. . The men whom you are striving to get back to power you know spent about one hundred thousand dollars annually under cover of what they facetiously termed ** secret service." I admit it was a secret service. Notwithstanding their control of a corrupt and subservient majority they were compelled to sub- mit to a resolution to produce the vouchers to a committee of leaders from both sides, as in England. When Sir John was expelled from power in 1873 he went to the Bank and got all the vouchers and checks and destroyed them and refused to render any account. He did worse. He had a large balance from $27,000 to $30,000. He should have lett this in the Treasury, but he kept it secretly in the Bank of Montreal. He did more. Only last year he paid out $6600— 4ie says to his friends — and refuses to account for this. The present Government has sued him for the money and unless you and others get into the House the money will be restored as you are aware. There is a cry that these are immaterial questions. You can scarcely r lake the electors believe these are dead issues, for suits are goini, on in the Courts while you read my letter. Coming to our own Province, you are aware of the suit in our Supreme Court arising from the much discussed eled thei 18 ,000, which of pathetic other night, for the mis- >n to us as it les to secure " Liheral- veT the bur- shed. Yov, have never ■ in getting er in, what lending for . l:-.,» CAR SPRI^VCiS. ((j.a power you s annually Jervice." I control of ed to sub- imittee of John was id got all refused to e balance lis in the Montreal. J says to present you , and d as you uestions. d issues, letter. suit in i When Charles Tupper and James McDonald had aroused the I electors by the Pictou Railway Job, and the refusal to consult them on Confederation, they prepared for carrying their two sev- eral Counties. Tupper had a bosom friend who was printing for the Government. McDonald had brought from Pictou a raw and illiterate cousin and put liim over the heads of clerks in the Railway Office. Neither of these persons had ever heard of or seen such a thing as a car spring, nor had either of them the slight- est knowledge of the hardware trade. Halifax had many old wealthy and respectable hardware firms. Tupper and McDonald arranged that these men should supply iron and railway material for the Government — and set them up as a new hardware firm. Subsequent events exposed the scheme by which these two politi cians obtained money to corrupt Pictou and Cumberland. " Our hands were never out of our pockets," said Alpin Grant frankly , before a Parliamentary Committee. The books of the firm shew that enormous prices were paid by Carvell under the pretext of buying car springs and other material. They shew that enormous sums were drawn out, much of which went to Cumberland. Thousands went out of that business for Mr. McDonald's election. The books can be examined. You know Mr. McKenzie ordered a suit for the restoration of money by the firm. Is it p.ny wonder it became bankrupt ? A portion of the dividends 'Will go back into the Treasury* A portion of the cash which went into the pocket of the Hon. James McDonald has been paid back by that worthy wire-puller, who has been the chief instrument in bringing you into your present humilia- ting position. How then can you say you are not support- ing a party involved in scandals ? I understand you desire to tax the poor man's fuel by placing a )^rli^ *«;!Ji i.V=-?Vt There may be men who believe this will stimulate trade ; but that is not the object of the man you are now willing to serve. Do you know why Mr. Tupper wishes to tax foreign coal ? During ■i ii 14 'he last fatal days of his rule in Nova Scotia there were known to exist rich scams of bituminous coal underlying upwards of three thousand acres in Cumberland. As the law stood, but one license could be granted, covering only six hundred acres of this large area. Applications had frequently been made in vain to the Government for the balance. Mr. Provincial C^ecretiiry Tupper procured a secret order in Council to throw these open to applicants. On Wednesday at eleven o'clock this order was made public in the Gazette. Charles Black, however, had ap- plied at ten o'clock of the same morning with applications cov- ering this whole area. It is true, Mr. Tupper's name did not appear on the record, but when discovered selling the property in London — having gone thither at the public expense — he ad- mitted he was interested in the mines, but insisted that Lo had paid money to Black. Upon this announcement an investiga- tion was demanded in the Legislature, and when Mr. Charles Black was summoned as a witness he refused to appear. If any further questions should arise on this subject there are three or four men, including Senator McFarlane, Charles Stewart and Dr. Lewis, who can give truthful evidence. I am not aware how much interest Tupper has in the mines. He has none in his own name — and may have none at all — but considering the character of this one transaction, I think he is not the man to insist on a tax which I contend has a tendency to increase tlie price of fuel for every man in this province. .>f?»./}.jfj>;iu;^4rr I think I can teach you sufficient about the coal question to convince you that it was not worth the price of Charles Tup- per's ticket from Toronto to bring him here to coach you on that subject. We are told that Mil. Jones, as our member, re- fused to allow the manufacturers of Ontario, assisted by Mr. Tupper, " of Toronto," to impose burdens on the people of Nova Scotia under the shallow offer of a worse than useless protection sop of fifty cents duty on hard coal. But for whom was this snare set by Tupper, and for whom is it now laid by yoti Mr. Matthfav Richey ? " The petitioners !" is the cry of your friends. You publish the names of a number of respect- able men who have supported hitherto Premier McKenzie. in J(| w| n( o\ M ii 15 re known wards of ood, but I acres of B in vain secretary Jse open der was had ap- )ns cov- did not )roperty —he ad- ho had nrj.*!". To induce you to offer for the Commons, it was whispered in your ear as it is now dinned in the public ear that Alfked JoNKS refused the petition of disappointed supporters of his who are coal owners. You are now discovering that you will not gain one of these votes. Truth compels me to say, moi-e- over that, with the exception of such men as Mr, Moren and Mr. Lithgow, these men have themselves comparatively little interest in coal. Some of them, it is true, have spent honestly earned money, but most of them will admit that they have never developed the mines. Tliey are simply owners, at a very small figure, of undeveloped coal areas, such as those which Tupper bought. One English enteiprise alone in coal in this province represents upward of three milllmia of dollars ; and that company ,vas not a petitioiier. Almost the entire owner- ship of the bona Jide coal interest in this province, as Mr, Lithgow will admit, is a non-resident ownership. And the men who control this interest — including Sir Hugh Allan — will admit that a tax of fifty cents or even a hundred centi on foreign anthracite coal, even if it were fair — or could be obtained pure and simple — would he useless. But could it be obtained, or would it be fair ? A cry to tax flour or salt would be popular with a certain class in Onta- rio and when the Liberal Conservative speakers are in those parts, they cry out for protection to flour and salt. In the towns of Ontario, where large quantities of American Coal are used, your anxious friend. Dr. Tupper, makes long and tire- some speeches but he never touches coal. Tie keeps as clear of that as you did of sugar in Temperance Hall. Do you want to hear how a high-minded and' magnanimous statesman of Ontario " protects " our interests there ? Here is a protection that we can appreciate. Alexander McKenzie is speaking to an audience of 10,000 people at New Market, and there are electors present who have been listening to the Tup- perian promises of protection on flour. The Premier says : — ••'It is quite true that in one respect the miller might be " benefited, as we supply the great bulk of the flour to the miu- " ing regions of Nova Scotia. Wo might compel thetn to take " our flour at higher prices, • by preventing them from buying V 16 X H^ -A \[ ! fi *' from Portland or Boston. But this could not be done without " inflicting an act of injustice on those people.** r . ., , , ,^,„, ,- There were fifteen or twenty thousand people at a great Re- form Demonstration at Clinton, and Mr. McKenzie spoke as follows to the millers, and he was cheered by Western men ; — *• Suppose a duty was imposed that would enable you to go to the Lower Provinces. The fishermen in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have a considerable trade with Portland, Boston and other towns in the United States. They sell their fish and bring back flour generally as ballast, carrying it for 10 or 15 cents per barrel. If we were to impose a duty of ^5 or 50 cents on flour it would destroy these people* s trade in time, which amouts to perhaps 4-Or 000 or 50,000 barrels per ytar. To the extent of that dtity on the flour which goes by Boston and New York our mil- lers might get the advantage. But how can you go to work and tax the people's bread [which Dr. Tupper had advo- cated] in the Lower Provinces unless you allow them to tax something elsewhere ? ** Previous to confederation we had cause occasionally to turn to the course pursued by the public men of Canada, and ever since that memorable event, you and I have watched, with great interest, the subject oi t( (( it (( <( t( n t( t( it t( tl TAX4T10M AMD DBBT. I'.i'i, ?r ;>, We could live under a tariff of ten per cent. Canada in 1866, was struggling for life as Tupper described her in our Legis- lature — striving then to prevent Confederation — on|the brink t*. of bankruptcy. She hau been lanquishing under a protective 'M- tariff of twenty-flve per cent. No man dared to advocate protection in the Maritime Provinces. Our free trade doctrine iii: was the stumbling block to Union. We wei'e warned in tones not to be mistaken that we would fall under the Protection axe of the Upper Provinces. Immediately preceding the loss of our independence, a slight movement took place in Canada towards free trade. The Confederate Delegates were in Lon- don endeavoring to force the British North America Act through the Imperial Parliament. The people of Nova Scotia sent delegates to prevent its passage, and by means of a public ■'*• Tho Pacific Railway is a . i • ■ ••''''.' ■■' R0 4D rSKLBMS TO I'M. It will cost 315O,(){)0^|to|2OO,O()C(^OT, according to the calcu lation of the moiiiber for Cunilierland, Two Handn'd and EiifhUj Millions of Dollars. The figures were stretched probably for a purpose. The other [)arty complain that the road is not to be built in ten yeai-s. Have you considered that the whole amount of the Fisheries Awar>« ?«■ ™-timiK,.ta„t extension yS'" , '^^''"' """»'»'"' 'he expense of half . .nillion ofdXLt'^'''"^' B»''way-*t the ->nto this the Winter Port nmUhl ? ?* '"""■'» »" Po'T'e Dominion of Canada. Whv 7 '^ '•"■»" "■"" ^o come of the these questions. yI H'r^TT' ''""' ""' '"''^'^ <>" •^ ^^'^ t' esonie passages from Great West. ""' ^'»' ">« 'nighty trade of the '''>^irZiZhlu!lltlTf'''l"^''' '"' respectability was f*w the deplorahle?;ti'S'i':f "'' '' '^^ '^oull Z 1 have much respect for vou in ^ '■*^" "«* ^'^<^^ you. reading these linL yo7 ^^ '^^^ 7"^'. and I kno/ i„ la-rly m pointing out the poS J**- ^ ^T "^'^'^ y»" chosen to occupy. I am af^ d 1,^,^ "'"'"• y»» have tended by vacilation and weaknC^ P»hi>c record is charac- templated public life-wT Xn /? t!!"-'' ^^ ~- elections in Januaiy 1874. Butitl r.''"'' ''»°'' «' the ready to take the stump-«,^ '' ;".. """ ^°" ^«'^ 'hen .-tpTt^ir^j tirr r- »- »^ -^^ -ng Halifax, and no man^has>^ertver\ ^"""^ ""P"^'™'- «'.Tupt«,„ ag^i^t y ^ ever even whispered a cha.ge of t.on which many think he sho^d h M T" '""^'" ^e posi- complaint in the Refo™ PaHv tw. " '' even matter of «eat m the Minisby, andle i^l^'H ' f """'' "<" "ecept a that ground. , •'' ** '« '" danger of losing support on • '.( so What reasons or qualifications can you shew for coming forward to tako his seat. I could understand Dr. Alinon claiming the support of his party. What is your pul)lic i-ccord ? I believo you delivered an address in favor of Con- federation. You have made a very fair civic official. I ho- lievo you could not make up your uiind to canvass with Dr. Almon in .1874. At any rote the moment you found tho strength of the political storm in your face, you took shelter on neutral territory. Shortly afterwaregan to doubt the success of the project you retired from the stiTiggle. I doubt whether you gained the confidence of any one by that move. You boast of your freedom from partizanship. You propose to yourself, under the circumstances, a very doubtful compliment indeed. In the present covitest you have, as usual, entirely mistaken the feeling of the people, and I venture to predict thftt inlKead of standing by your guns to fight through the desperate campaign now inaugurated in Nova Scotia by your new leaders for a revival, at the general ekction, of the Reign of Con*up- tion and a policy of Protection " to make the rich man richer, and the poor man poorer," you will, on your defeat on the 29th instant, at the end of the first battle, retire from the field a wiser and a more contented man. - ^. • Yours, sincerely, '^d\ ^ r ■ ■ ■■■! ; ■ t ' I '' ■y •'■' ■'■ ■ ^V.- ' • r'i • ■: • .f'yi-f/ AN ELECTOR. .:.h: i V :■'?! HALIFAX. M.S. ....•,.^.. ,J