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Disciple leader in Norval. (2) The forces of temperance made that cause a political issue. Some resisted. The Conservative candidate in the 1862 election, William Clay, owned himself a temperance man but was opposed to a prohibitory liquor law. 'That', he declared, 'is work for ministers of the Gospel.' Dr Anson Buck of Palermo disagreed, and claimed that Clay's aversion to legislation cost him Buck's support (Buck was making political hay, and as a prominent Reformer he would never have given his vote to Clay). (3) The Reformer William McCraney (1831-1911) represented Halton in the Dominion House in 1874, and although he lost to the Honorable William Macdougall in 1878, he won the seat back in 1882, despite the country going Conservative. Both McCraney and D.B. Chisholm stood for temperance in the election of 1874, but with McCraney that became a primary, almost religious, concern. Indeed, his biography in the 1877 Atlas of Halton County described him as 'a zealous advocate of temperance and religion. (4) The following year (1878), the member for Ottawa, Richard W. Scott, presented the Canada Temperance Act to parliament. This former champion for separate schools now gave his name to the Scott Act, which would become the rallying flag of Ontarion protestants. Though the Halton electorate defeated their 'temperance' candidate, McCraney, that same year, it made Halton the banner county to implement the Scott Act in 1881-- the only municipality in the province to do so. (5) Municipalities hired special police constables, like W.A. Young in Oakville. to police the Act; and hotel-keepers were repeatedly hailed befored the magistrates for selling liquor. One of the early charges, against Robert Bennet of Georgetown, was quashed for lack of evidence; but the case upheld the power of the local government to appoint police magistrates. The Canadian Champion in Milton ridiculed Young, prompting the editor of the Acton Free Press, Moore, to object. The Champion accused Moore of being a 'snivelling goody-goody', and