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Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmte en commenpent par la premiere page qui comporte une einpreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernidrs page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparattra sur Sa derniAre image de cheque microfiche, salon le cas: le symbole — ^-signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbole V signifie "FIN ". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmte d des taux de reduction diffirents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est iiim^ dt partir de I'angle sup^rieur gauche, de gauche dt droits, et de haut en bas, an prenant le nombre d'images n^cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 WEST MIDDLESEX. TIE BKIBEBT B1I6IDE ! M#B1 m 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/