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WEST MIDDLESEX.

TIE BKIBEBT B1I6IDE !

M#B1

CRUSHING EXPOSURE

All Good Citizens, Irresx>ective of Politics,

Called to the Rescue,

THE HONOR OP THE RIDING AT STAKS.

Strathroy, December 11th, 1883,
On the afternoon of Saturday last a joung man named James Weekes came into the
Liberal Committee Room in Strathroy, under the evident impression that he was in John-
ston's committee room, as the latter committee room was, at last election, next door Ho
asked for the papers for polling Division No. 3, Carado: ;nd stated that he was the Vice-
President of Johnston's Committee for that sub-division. His mistake wa^ at once appar-
ent to those in the committe room, and he was drawn out to make the disclosures given be-
low, and which are on oath to give every assurance of the truthfulness. The parties to the
declarations are well-known in West Middlesex, and the disclosures are so explicit that they
are unanswerable. The same tactics pursued in Division No. 3, Caradoc, will be adopted
in every polling sub-division throughout the Eiding. Let all honest men be prepared t>< an-
swer this attack upon the political morality of the Riding by their votes on the 14th.
The following Sworn Statements need no further explanation : —

Ih the matter of the West Middle-
sex Election ;

4I, Edward Rowland, of the Town of
Strathroy, in the county of Middlesex,
do solemnly declare

I. That on Saturday, the eighth day
af D.cember last past about half- past
five o'clock in the afternoon a person
giving bis name as Jame- Weekes, of
the Township of Caradoc came irio
the Liberal Committee room at Strath-
roy, and asked for the papers of polling
sub-division number three of his Town-
ship.

t. That the said James Weekes stat
«d that he was vico-president of John-
ston's Committee, in said poUin j{ sub
division.

3. On being asked how the vote
stood in his polling sub-division as
between Johnston and Ross he replied:
"I have the returns, and it does not
look as wellas it did last electiop," and
gave it J a reason for the change that
a great ..lany were discontented because
Arnold had not given them all the
money he promised last time.

4, That on being asked how much
money he got for his sub-division this
time h'^ answered : "1 have got one

liars." and took o

We, the undersigned, Jas M. Camp-
bell, Samuel Beswick, and George
Gordon, all of the town of Strathroy
in the county of Middlesex do sol-
emnly declare that.

I. We were present in the Liberal
Committee Room, jn Saturday the
eighth instant when a person who gave
his name as James Weekes, describing
himself as Vice President of Johnston's
Committee of polling subdivision
number 3, Caradoc, came into the
Liberal Committee Room and asked
for papers referring to his polling sub-
division.

3. That we saw the said James
Weekes take out of bis pocket an en-
velope which on being opened and con-
tents counted in our presence, was
found to contain in five dollar bills
one hundred dollars.

That we saw tVip caiH I

3 mAe .

Weekes, sign the following receipt

Received one hundred dollars from
A. Johnston's Committee.

(Signed) James Weekes.
4. That we heard the said James
Weekes direct that the other hundred
dollars lor his polling sub-division was
to be sent to another person.

further stated that neither Peatc»
nor Lindsay spent the money receivtd
by them, but that he (Weekes)
spent his money, and was thirteen dol-
lars out of pocket, as he brought
one vote from Woodstock and three
votes from St. Thomas. Weekes also
toki me that his division would have
been all right at the last election but
that Arnold (meaning the president of
the West Middlesex Conservative As-
sociation) came and made promises
which were not carried out ; he Weekes,
however, added that "we have fixed
that now." I was informed by the said
\Veeke3 that he is the President of
his division in Caradoc ; be also
mentioned the parties in his
division whom he calculated would
get the money, and that at a meeting to
be held at Mt. Brydges on Monday
ing, the panics would be fixed.
And I n*ake this solemn declaratfon
conscientiously believing the same to
be true and by virtue of the Act passed
iu the thirty-seventh year of her Majes-
ty's reign entituled "An Act for the Sup-
pression of Voluntary and Kxtra
Judicial Oaths."

(Signed) D. James Cox.

evpninc

If mrti<»o urmil

time h'^ answered

'I have got one \ to be sent to another person.

tr UUII.ICI1 V/<tlIlS.

(Signed)

D. James Cox.

look as well as it did last electiop," and
gave it as a reason for the change that
a great many were discontented because
Arnold had not given them all the
money he promised last time.

4. That on being asked how much
noney he got for his sub-division this
time he answered : "I have got one
hundred dollars," and took out of his
pocket an envelope which he said con-
tained that amount.

5. That on the said envelope being
opened by the undersigned, in the
presence of the said James Weekes,
James Campbell, Samuel Beswick and
George Gordon, and contents ex-
amined, it was found to contain twenty
five-dollar bank bills.

6. That afr,2r counting the said
money it was returned to the siid James
Weekts.

7. Thsit after returning the said
money to the said Weekes the remark
was made, "The bank burst by neglect-
ing to take receipts for all the moneys
paid for election purposes lar.t election,"
and the said James Weekes wis then
asked to sign a receipt, which he did
as follows : —

Received one hundred dollars from
A. Johnston's Committee.

(Signed) . James Weekks.

8. That on being asked where he
got the money, he said, " it was de-
livered to me in a bed-room in Roach's
Hotel, Strathroy, in this way : One
McLean handed the envelope to a
stranger, whose name 1 was not to
know, and by that stranger the en-
velope was handed to me,"

9. That on being asked the names of
the persons he intended to bribe, he
gave the following list : —

Archie Murphy.
John Murphy.
Nelson Vrooman.
The Bancroj-i^.
D. Berry.

— BiDNELL.

— Chambrlain,
Angus Graves.
Roby McFee.

and oiher,<8.
And I make this solemn declaration
coDsciemiously believing the same to
be true and by virtue of an Act passed
in the thirty seventh year of H'^r
Majesty's reign intituled, "An Act
for the Suppression of Voluntary and
Extrajudicial Oaths.

E. Rowland.

Declared before me at the Town of }
Strathroy in the County of Middlesex |
this tenth day of December A. D. 1883. i

E. W. Scat'^herd.
A Commsssioner &c.,

Weekes, sign the following receipt.

Received one hundred dollars from
A. Johnston's Committee.

(Signed) James Weekes.

4. That we heard the said James
Weekes direct thai: the other hundred
dollars ior his polling sub-division was
to be sent to another person.

5. That we saw the sail James
Weeks, return t'le money into his
pocket after being counted.

And we make this soli^mn declar-
ation conscientiously believing the
same to be true and by virtue of an
act passed in the thiity seventh year
of Her Majesty's reign intituled " An
Act for the Suppression of Voluntary
and Extrajudicial Oaths.

J. W. Campbell. \
S. Beswick. \-

George Gordon, j
Declared before me at the Town of
Strathroy in the County of Middlesex
this tenth day of December A. D. 1883.

E. W. Scatcherd.
A Commissioner Sec,

In the matter of the Election of a
Memuer to represent the riding
OK West Middlesex :
I, James Cox, of the Town of Strath-
roy, in the County of Middlesex,
butcher, do solemnly declare I was in
the Township of Caradoc early on
Monday morning, the loth day of
December, instant, buying cattle, and
knowing the particulars given by James
Weekes at Reform Committee room in
Strathroy on Saturday last, I called on
Weekes at his home in Caradoc, to
learn something further about the
matter. 1 saw the said Weekes, and
we talked abcut the coming election ;
I said to him that I understood he got
some money from Mr. Johnston's Com-
mittee, he told me that he had received
one hundred dollars, and turned it
over to Innes, saying that Innes *vas a
good Conservative whom he could
trust ; that he (Innes) was a man who
attended no committee meetings, and
would not attend any, and that he was
one of the easv-going men, whom
nobody would suspect. Weekes told
me that at the last election he received j
seventy five dollars from Johnston's i
Committee-room ; that he gave to j
Thomas Pearce, of Mount Brydges, |
twenty-five dollars, to Harry Lindsay, |
of Mount Brydges, twenty-five dollars, :
and used the remaining twentyfi\e;
dollars himself; that Pearce was noti
satisfied with the twenty-five dollars he
received, and went to the said Com-
mittee-room and got twenty-five dol-
ars more from. Reefer W»»*»lr»H

evening, the parties would be nxt
And I n*ake this solemn declaration
conscientiously believing the sanoe t»
be truf and by virtue of the Act passed
in the thirty-seventh year of her Majes-
ty's reign entituled "An Act for the Sup-
pression of Voluntary and Extra
Judicial Oaths."

(Signed) D. James Cox.
Declared before me at the town of
Strathroy in the County of Middlesex
this tenth day of December A. D. 1883.
James Noble, J. P.

Police Magistrate.

ElBCtOK of Wssflisex.

The work of corrupliLg your con-
stituency has already begun. Mr.
Johnston's agents are at work. The
above af!idavit contains the proof of
what is attempted in one polling sub-
division. What aiswer will you make
to 'he men who degrade themselves by
ofTerioi^^ a bribe, and who would degrade
you if they coul'd prevail upon yoo to
accept one. This is no longer a party
question. We know that the Con-
servatives of West Middlesex are op-
posed to bribery. We therefore call
upon them to rise in their might and
stamp out such rascality as the above
ffadavits disclose. No honest maa
should support a candidate who would
allow such men as McLean to remain
in the Riding one day. It is known
that McLean is in Mr. Johnston's con-
fidence. He is seen with him in
Strathroy. Mr. Johnston cannot be
ignorant of what is going on. You
must hold him responsible for what
these men do, and your votes on the
14th should show that you have n*
sympathy with such P»-actices.

WARNIHG,

A Vigilance Committee is at work in
every municipality, and warning f is
hereby given that the power conferred
by the Controverted Elections Law of
Ontario will be used in punishing all
offences against the Act. The follow-
ing are the penalties which follow an
act of bribery : —

The party bribing is liable,

1. To be disfranchised.

2. To a penalty of $200.

3. To pay the expenses of the elec-
tion trial, as was done in the recent
Johnston trial.

4. To one or two years' imprison-
ment, as guilty of a misdemeanor at
common law.

The party accepting a bribe is liable,

1. To be disfranchised,

2. To a penalty of $2gp.

3. To a fiae and imprisonment, as
uilty of misdem-eanor at common law

Vote for Ross and Cameron, and put
doi^n sbameless corruption.