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Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmds en commen^ant par la premidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la dernidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbole — ^ signifie "A SUIVRE ", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmds d des taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est filmd d partir de I'angle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants iilustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 TI Mr. McC a n^^vel a U.'Bt <,Ime hi' 3 coinvI( political p hooJ. he 1- and io &£ Jacqu33 c a Conserv lUfportea wa3 not tcr much that he h the preser WhUst 1 ciple, and course puj eral-Consc been so pa vate oplnic jugation Ing, inigl hlefs. I Jtollgationa Jolltlcal I bers cf for the humble op tees for t the manag principal a dinary rel latloniB bel tho:€ who nui Whilst tl party undc their chiefi subordlnatf their prlval pre sed dec party; on asfiunrved tl their follo> faithfuUy < them in m putee or to i C IP THE BOWELL CABINET SPEECH OF R. I). McGIBBON, y.C, LACHINK, P.g., DEC. 17th, 1«!I5. (from TIIK MON'TRRAI, IIKRAI.I). ) Mr. McGlt)t>on Bald Iv found himself in a n^vel and pccullai- situation. For the list <,iime In his lire, he felt compelled by hl3 coinvlctiona puoilcly to oppose the folltlcal party with which, t Ince his boy- hooJ, he had been Intimately connected, and i3 asK his fellow Conservatlvea In Jacqu3i Cartisr toi do likewise. He wat) a Conservative In principle and loyally iUfportea tnat party in the past, and it wa> not without great regret and af- ter much careful and anxiou? thought that he had decided to oppoe them in the present election. • I'AUTV ALI,E(iIAN('K. Whilst he was a Conservative In prin- ciple, and generally favorable to the course pursued Im the past by the Lib- eral-Conservative party, he hai never been to partlzan as to surrender his pri- vate oplnicna to the domination and sub- jugat:on ot those who, for the time be- ing, might be his nominal political h'lefs. He did not so regard the ligations Imposed on him by his lltlcal party allegiance. The mcm- ers cf a cabinet . or government for thy time being occupied, in his humble opli*on, the position of trus- tees for the public. They are really the managing partners for the party, its principal agents, and subject to the or- dinary relationa which govern the re- lations between those appointed and thore who appoint. ItKMIT OK I'ldVATK MI'IMnN, Whilst the rank and file of a political party undoubtedly owed allegiance to their chiefs, and were bound at times to subordinate. In matters of ml.ior contr.rn, their private oplnionj=i to the properly cx- pre sed decision oC the majority of the party; on the other hand, thosf who asjfeunned the chleftatnahifi owed It to thetr followers to lead them honestly, taithfuMy and properly, not to embroil them in unnecessary or vexatious dis- putes w to require of them a service which wan dishonorable and dlaagreeab'.e, or contrary to the principles upon which the party was originally constituted. For hU own part he had never felt tha: his membership In the Conservative party re- quired or him M) to sink his individual opinions that he was blindly to follow wherever the leaders oi It choso to lead. I'AHTV (fltVB RNMENT. Whilst government by party was un- doubtedly neceaaary under the British lystem, still U should never be forgot- ten that the main object of all govern- ment wa*; the welfare of the country, and appiyln^ those principles which hflf had ju-t expressed to this statement, whenever in the opinion of a pri- vate membei ot a political party the members of a government were leading thai party by devious paths into .ile- aster and d«^reat, and conducing not to the welfare but to the diradvantage of the country which they were .supposed to govern, he thought It wa^ the duty of that Individual fairly and frankly to '•ndeavor, first of all, to lm.ipress upon his leaders, by conversation and reason- ing, the fatuity oil their course, and I' they failed to heed such advice as he might give them, then he should endeav- er to correct them by such means asi are in his power. Country was ahvaya alwve party. roNSKRVATIVK KKSI'OTISfl. Now, the Conservatives havarbeen in power since 1878, with large ifiajorl- tles, which had caused them to Mcome practically despotic with respect to the government of the country. On the whole they had not much fault to find with their administration, of affairs, but for some years past, those In power had evidently come to regard themselves not merely as the trustees of the party, and as those only temporarily In pow- er, but as the real owners And proprietor^ of the Dominion of Canada, too4clng up* on the ordinary cltlzer^s as serfe Wy < ^f!> I 2 THE BOWELI- ( Al'.INKT. ani h'.lot8, hewers oi' wood and ufiiwcib ui water, wno would bu n-qqa.icu 10 uo UM DwuuiK 01 lht4r masters with- out quedion aiui wimout conauuatio.i. I'AK'i'^ Diai'llOS ;Wfj2n a tarii naa itacicr.'* oi' tunsplc- uou^J aD.iity auu grcui t-xptTifiice, li.ia fO-Uioii wa«i iioi bO inio.ciao.e as u nad becomt viucn men oi mea.ocrc abil- ity werd lUtea uuo poalloaa v/ui.cii LHuy were incompetent lo till, and enucavorea to play part J they were u.xab.e lo en- act. It Was ytaia stiiCi,' lU^i CLfUaer vo- tive party na.a had uay general convtn- tion or assjinoly wh^Tv! any exprcs-ion o. opinion Iroai iiie eiecLor.j ana members oi the party at iargo cuuld bj had, any platform dedarea. or ajiy .set oI princi- ples agreed upon. From the Council Chamber at Otiawa, in which a number of puny deities, were masquerading with all the pretentious pomposAy whkn Jup- iter hlmi€ll could assume, there were issued manllestoea such as the Czar him- f-€lf could liardly, excel. IIUJ.K ANIJ rOllNKlt NOMINATIONS. Coming more piarticularly lo the ques- tion In i.and, he would call attention to the reiT!'arlcab:e tact that ncUher in the County ol Jacques Cartier nor in Montreal centre had the Con e;vativc party been summoned to any properly called convention. i^Ir De^carrles was, not the nommeei oi any Con.ervative or other convention, but had been J'ol ted upon the party by the so called leader, Mr. Oulmet. He explained the hole and corner meeting held in a back room in the St. Lawrence Hall. Mr. Girouard had been edged out, Mr. Monk had been l^ubbed and Mr. Andrew Dawes rejec- ted. In Montreal Centre there wore at least two political clubs, which did all the hard work at election time. It^ was the easiest possible matter to have con- vened an assembly of the Conservatives of the division, which was unoquallod fo:- the wealth and intelligence of its elec- Itorate. No pretence had been made at any consultation with the electors as to what candidate should be selected. Sir Mackenzie Bowell arrived In Mont- real secretly, was either afraid or ashamed to register his name at an ho- tel, and after a midnight con.^ultation ■with Mr. Drummond, and at which, of course, he took It for granted that Mr. Richard White, the Panjandrum of every- thing that was Conservative, must have been present. It was decided to Ignore completely the wishes of the Irish Cath- .olic Conservatives, and. all other classes In the con=?*ttuency. and Sir William Hingerton was, by this little clique, se- lected ag the candidate of the party. KISSIAN .MKTIior).. He, for his part, declinc'i to be a mem- ber of any party in which such despot- ic and RuisLan methods were pursued, and preferred to retain hln liberty un- less the wishes of the organizations and members of the party were consulted, ■e. peclally when they were called upon to ply the laboring oar In the strife. ThI > was one of his complaints against the present Administration, that thfy never consulted the wishes of the fr'j^nd-* of the party in matters of Im- portance, but If they take advlco at all, they take it from political heelers, wire- pullers, office holdersi and booilersd whos? advice is selfish and interested, and not in the best interests either of the party or of the country. M')NTUKAL APPOINTMENTS. For years Montreal— and by Montreal lie meant ij,ot only the City of .Monltreal but tha surrounding district^had been treated aa though they were in a state of FupHage. and appointments had been made without the slightest reference either to the fitness of the candidates or to the requirements of the position, or to tho~e other considerations which in a mixed opulation like our own ■phould be conv;iaered when appointment.-^ to office were being made; and one or two recent Iivitances had accentuated the practice of the Government in that respect. TiiK. .!t'i)(;i:sifn'. H(! did not desire to enter at the present thnn particularly Into the reasons which flT t of all, had led him publicly to pro- tect against the Government's line of conduct, but In the recent appoln't- m.?nt of Judge Curran a flagrant case had occurred By all the rule=i of fair- ness and equity "the Englilsih* speaking Protestants of Montreal were entitled to the appointment- Representations had 'bfpn made time and again, not only by th-" member for Montreal West, Sir Don- ald Smith, but by all the leading Fng- IVtv c-reaklnp members of the Bar with- out exception, and the Government knew and knew full wf>ll that this element was entlHed to recognition when a successor to Chief Justice Johnson was to be ap- pointed. TlIK KKMONSTUANrB. More than a year after the death of the late lamented Chief Justice, and af- ; ter the admlnls^tratlon of justice had se- ' riou^ly suffered by their supine Inae- ^ tlvtty, rumors had begun to be rlrcu-' Jated that a French lawyer of great ability— Mr. Beaudln— was about to be appointed and Immediately an agitation wa? begun and a remonstrance signed TlIK IIOWEI.L C'ABiNKT. pon- Png- Jth- lew ma hsor ap- of Jaf- jse- lac- Icu- leat be Hon led by the most Influential members of the Cons'Tvatlve party in the city, by mo-t of the leading business men and Protestant clergrymen, Including the Lord Bishop ot Montreal, and respect- fully presented to Sir Mackenzie Bow- oil. This, It would be remembered, was on the eve of an election in which a Liberal and a Conservative candidate were very actively engaged, but in- stead of showlnir even decent respeot for this petition signed by the men upon who e support and whose financial con- tributions the narty which he assumed to lead was dcppndfnt, he insolent- ly and defiantly hurled back the peti- tion In the teeth of hl^ supporters, and ap-iointrd, not Mr. Bciudin, hut his So- licitor General the very next day. l)0\VKLl/s INSri.T. BoweU's action Indicated two things. In tho first place It In Heated that he en- tirely exaggerated hi^ own Importance and misconceived the v:ilue and strength of the remonstrance which was addres- .■-■ed to hlmi by m<^n who felt that their rights as Englishmen wero entUloi to re pect. and In the second place that he utterly lacked the ordinary diplomacy which ought to characterize a leader of a political narty. In^-tead of taking it into consideration for a wepk. o^ even until after the election in Montreal Cen- tre wa=; over, his appointment of Judge Curran three or four day-} before the election took place fllmply c'lus'^d hund- red -i and hundreds of electors who had never ca^t a Liberal vote in their live=; to vote against the ctinjiidate of their party, the result b^lngthat a very estimable candidate of his own party who otherwl'^e ha.d an excellent chTncv'> of election, suffered ignominious deeat. This was the rejoinder to BoweU's stu- pidity. The Enerll^h-speaklng Protest- ants of Montreal had a grudsre aga'nst the Government on this score. For year-?, slmnly and solely for political rea- sons, thi^y had been dep-lved o° n•^e no«l- tion after another, and any Government puch as BoweU's which nndrrtnok to per- petuate this regime would have to r'^ck- on with an element which It took a long time to arou-e. but which, when aroused, would show by Its ballots as if^ h^i done In the nrevlou^! election In Montreal Centre that their rls-hts as E.ngUshmf>n were not to bf trifled with, nnd that they were bound to live In-T,ower Can- ada on an couallty with th'^lr fellow countrymen of other nat'onalltlc.s and religions. TriK (OLI.KOTiiUslltl*. The course of the Government with respect to the Collectorshlp of Customs was equally reprehensible. Since the death of the late Mr Ryan— now over two yearn ago— they had apparently kept thl< office open— dangling it before the eye 4 of a political supporter as a sop to Induce his support— lo the detriment, of the public service and In spite of the remon'-^t ranee ol the Montreal Board of Trade. ^ r.VHINET (;OWARI»l('K. The deputy of the late Collector, Mr. O'Hara, was thoroughl/ competent, and by all the rules of fal-neas and pre- ferment (-.hould be appointed to the po- sition, being Ineoni|>arably superior In that respect as a departmental officer to Mr. White, ex-M. P. To say nothing of th-^ politically Immortal element Involved in the relations of the CSovernment tow- ard ; Mr. White, and the Injury to the public .'service, by keeping the office open, we are now told by the Hon. Mr. Ives that the appointment would be made on the 1st January. Why was thts date solected? When we remember that the Montreal election wa'* on the 27th of December and the Jacques Cartler on the 30th of December, it was clear It wai .■?Imply because the Government was endeavoring to humbug and befool the Irl^h people of Montreal; simply because they were endeavoring to induce the friends of Mr. O'Hara to believe that he still has a chance of b?Ing promoted and to con- vince otherp— the frlendsi of Mr. White— that he would be namied. Such a cour.^ie betokened the greatest cowardice and dl honesty on the part of the Govern- ment, and he accused them with being cowards. He would make an exception, however: that dlstingulsh'^d warrior, the leader of the Conservative party In this dl-trlct— Colonel Oulmet— with his won- derful military experience; and record in the Rlel rebellion. TlIK SKN.\Tt)USUIl'S. This vacillating, halting, hrs'tatlng conduct of the Government In respect also to the Senatorshlps, some six or seven of which had been left open- some of them for years— showed that tho msn In power were not able efficient- ly to properly conduct the political af- faire of the country. There was no co- hesion In the Cabinet. One member was pulling one way and another member was pulling in a difl'erent way. Another at times privately, and at other times pub- 11 ly, speaking disrespectfully and dis- paragingly of his leaders and his col- leaguis, resigning anl pleadln? to 'be taken back again— a pDllcy which has re- sulted In the resignation of the leader of th'? Catholics, Mr. Angers, and of the Orangemen, Mr. Wallace. Sir Macken- zie BoweU was fond of prating about WW- THK noWKIJ, CAHINKT. ' practice." Whs It Eng- __ (to keep JudiTHhIps open lor l-'^rlbe memberii of PHrllampnl p^dtnlM* office, or I'or momberH of if' »t' &/Uinelt to have their I'lW parlrUTfi pleMlinv caflcn before them ? NO LKAIiKKMIill'. Vfjlie tect of the rruttter whh :tM)t this puslllanimi>us Govcrn- tnatkt tutA no leadership and re- quired Ah immediate re-const ruction it' tt: Was to succeed at tho next grnoni\ el&itiQns. Its extravagance had been al togc^lier unwarrantable, and ajmc of the' :^oncerns to which It had pUd nub- sMlei and given Government recognition hftd been swindleb of the first water, and ftad wrought Canada Infinite har.ii in the financial markolg o: E.irop\ TlIK KKMKDV. W^itli resp^ot to the National Policy, which the Government was continually ueiag In order to frighten its Hupport- er8 FqJo condoning all Its aln^ ol omis- sion and commisslo'i, h ■ htd only thin to say, thai whilst a moderate protect ion- M ho did n7t h.'liev:' that the H>ilva- tio.n Of the count; y dfp^nJed upon the conttnufince in power Oi Bowell unl his coUeaiTues or the eleci'ion of Mr. De.s- carriea. The remedy for the acLuU pjs- Itlon of a fairs h ^ b:'ll'i''el to b > the CalJlnet at Ottawa at present and mere of them outside who could be called up on, and who could give the eou.Mtry unfi! the general elections, al least, a clean Government anl honest administration, place the pxrty a i a •."i'-i'- lighting b:-a's inspire confidence and loyalty amongst Its supporters and eiible It to enler upon the serious warfare oi' the general elections on an equality, at least, wi.'n the forces which would be opposed to them. MH. Id .M AUK IKS. As might be seen, he, Mr. McGIbbcn had addressed his remarks for the most part to hie fellow Conservatives, and he did not propose to abandon forever the Con- eervative party, but was willing to join with his Liberal friends In the pres- ent juncture to defeat the candidate of the party, Mr. De.-icarrles. Th.s gentle- man had apparently schemed and cabla- led to secure the nomination for him- self. He had basely and treacherous- ly deserted hl.s friends at Quebec, with- out warning, and was not worthy of con.slderatlon at the hands of any re- spectable member of either the Conserva- tive or Libera! party. Mr. Charbon- neau wan a gentleman of high profession- al standing. His career as a lawyer wan untlem'shed; he had not tilled his pockety with expropriation lees obtain- ed by canvassing for clients up and down th(> lanes and byways of Montreal. Koi- the reasons to which he had ad- verted, and with all the responsibility which hlH abandonment of his lifelong fonnectlon with »he Conservative party at present signified, he had no hesitation in asking tho«.' pre; personally had burned his ships behind him. He had nothing lo nsx. (j.- expr-ct from the Conservative party. He had no private grievances to redress, no piivate wish to be gratified. H s course had been dictated simply and solely be- cause he felt in the firsL place that his lights as an Englishman had been trampled upon and bccuusj he felt that as a member of the Conservative party he woulcl be doing It a real service ty encieavorlng to show the incompetent and mediocre men Wno tissumed to lead it that the pa'ty would no longer stand their mali-aclministratlon and varll'ailng opportunism. M:< nllMKT. In conclu:-^lon, h' des'iie I to nay a word with regard to Mr. Ouimet, who hitd as- sumed tne leader.s'hip of the ptrty In .Vlontreal, whdse utter lack of ability haS contrlt>uied very largdy to the present disintegration wh'ch existed, Ouimet should b3 one oi the flr.sV men to be expell- ed from the Cajblnet at Ottawa. He was utterly an1 absolutely wittiout qualifica- tion =? as a leader. He never tried to con- HUlt the bettfi cla-sU of the Ccnservailve party en e.ny qucstiin relating to party or political matterH, but When he came to Montreal he arsociated with men, who, in his humble opinion, should not sur- round a leader of a great par'ty. Mr. McGIbbcn thought the position of his party was n";t hopeless, but that the first th?ng to do was to convlncci the leaders that they had los't the C( nf idence of their own party electorate, and If they did not think this enough to change their ways, thfn let them siuffer the conse- qufnees. I:.