SIR CHARLES TUPPER POINTS our INA ZCURACIES : 01d Political .Questiom~Ex-Pre- mier Objects To The Manner In Which His Words Are Re- Bir Charles T has sent the fol lowing letter to authors and pub lisher of the "Life of Principal Grant" 3 : : W Man, Jan. 12th; 1005. Meenrs, W. Grant 'and F. Hamil fon, care ws. Morang: & Co., limited, Toronto, Ont. Dear Sirs: Boy + "Life of Principal Grant" 1 lowing re- Fa: support rier admin: istration in 1900 was strengthened by bis break with Charles Tupper. It was a wrench, for his friendship for Sir Charles dated from the years when he had fought behind him in Nova Scotia for confederation. In 1804, af- ter the death of Sir John Thompson, he had given a newspaper interview strongly urging the conservatives to (SDAY, JANUARY £6, o wished Laurier! fh or half imperia- » sg in Brockville on the pO, the Mail and En. ip speech reads as fol an that in Quebec' he had ° declared = that Laurier is too British for me," while in Ontario he had declared 'Laurier was not hall Bridie tm So far as the statement in Ontario was concerned, h . 3 r. (Laughter). But the $ he had said 'Laurier for me' was as unfound- od as ala ent could possibly be. It had Bret appeered in La Presse, in Montreal. 'The 'interview with La Presse took in the presence of Pg vicod y Quebec: Chronicle. What he ssid 'was that the poliey pro nded by Sie Wilirid Laurier in © platform to platiorm, Sir Wilfrid wis in that country , 8% the representafive of Can- of parliamentary fed- the empire was'too Eng or me' y 'the following letters Principal Grant needed @ opposing me. +1 t- on the 220d June, » me ie, How, ad bh private citi zen of Kingston, also to express to Discount Sale B RAIL: select Sir Charles as loader. But Jn 1900 the tie was finally broken. Writ ing to his son in September of that year, he says : "The excitement is in- creasing, and will soon be at boiling point. 1 have given up Tupper on ac count of his "sharp curve," attacking Lawier in October for being anti-Uri- tish, and attacking him now--in Que: hee, too--for being 'too English for me, with his scheme of imperial federa- tion, is more than J--either as a Can- adian or a Britou--ecan stand. The au- dacity of the thing st rs one" You ought to have known that 1 took 'the earliest opportunity of ex- posing the falsity of thip slander in the press and at public! meetings. If you want the proof you will find that at a meeting at St. Hyacinthe, on Septem 2th, 1900, Sir | Wilirid said : "Sir Charles Tupper took a part in this' campaign. In an: interview © told the press that Laurier was 190 English for him, ¢ premier then Yuoted the Mail and Empire, which reported Sie Charles as denying the in- I ---------- Diseases of Women Often Dus fo Deranged Kidneys When The Kidneys Are Weak It Is Impossible |: For Any Woman To Be Happy Or Healthy, If the girls and women who are si- lently my ering. with what tl sup. pose is "le trouble," would look to their kidneys they would soon find the source of their ill-health. 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At a word from you, Kingston will dect' you its represen- tative to parliament, and once there your place can be only the first. What I can' do to sustain your policy will be done with all my mwght." Again, on the 3008 October, 189] : "My dear Sir Charles: Many thanks for sending me the Nineteenth Cen tury with vour clear-cut article; for your letter of the 20¢h inst. yon look at the of this month, vou will find an article from me, dealing with history, = but with the same object as you had in your article. My hope is thal by put ting as many irons into the fire as Josie we may get 'the British people 0 See the facts from our point of View as well us their own. You have i fone Herculean work, and it will tell t John Bull is slow fo move. "It gave me great pleasure to have an opportunity of bringing the salient points; of your publie record to the notice of many people in Quebec and Ontario whe have been taught system- atically to regard you as they * were taught {0 regard Sir John Macdonald ten, twenty and thirty years ago. Itis kno¥n that F am ndt' a party 'mun and Dever had an axe to: grind, and, erefore, some 13 pay a degree of attention to what b say that they do not give to active politicians: On that account 1 was glad to be able to strike in 'at what seemed the praper moment. The party made a great mis: take in not accepting the counsel given them, bit I'know that they will have to send for vou vet. So, Trust you are hushanding your strength. | do not think that Ei is dead; or if it is, jt is because the grits are paring for a still bolder move, pendence. With all kind regards best wishes; believe me. pre inde- and ; i M. Grant.' Agaih, on the 7th Hay, 180% "My: dear Sir Charles : Me for your two letters Just also for the April Nineteenth Century, with Your articls in the place of hon. fe that it desirves. Nothing that you i" : wholly and unreservedly « tion and argument, to have silenced most of vour previous critics. Yes, 'the world do move,' as Brother Jasper ssid, and. oven the slow John Bull world moves. The best debate and division in our House = of Commons on preferential trade © with Britain, with the grits practically turning their back on C.U, and 'go- ing one better them the. t in favour of British trade marks. great ovent in our polities and must: be felt to some extent in Britain. "1 frankly confess that you were |e right in your e the amount of life -- ht poliey, ant that 1 v s © like it Jess - t¢, a vear left in the continuous bad with Britain take \ ¥ tan : of the vestriction on the side of the states, Ek pray for - amd good Westminster Review' to British statesmen and the British people. The result of the election for the local in Toromto the other day was most significant. E. A. Macdon- ald, who a ye#ir or two ago polled thousands of votes when runni for mayor, and who has a Poronay ful- lowing in the east of the city, got 149 votes 'when he ran as an annexa- tionist, that, too, in & contest where there was no party feeling, and when ball of the voters in the city did not take the trouble to go to the polls ! A vigorous Canadian feeling is grow ing up, and it will take' an indepen dence direction, unless the ties with Britain are strengthened along the iffierent lines you indicate in your "Always yours, "GM. Geant." You say, "in 1804, PrincipalNGrant gave an interview urging the cbnser- vatives to select Sir 'Charles Tupper, as leader, but in 1900, the tie was finally broken." Yet om page 368 we are told, "At the time of the Mani- toba School Controversy, the 'Globe' asked Grant to visit Manitoba = and write for it a series of articles on the the situation, and he accepted the commission," and on es 369 and 79, you say that Mr. Grant, on Janu- ary 1st, 1806, wrote Mr. Willison "It is" perfectly well' known that on the matter in debute, Mr. Laurier and | are on the same platform." What a "wrench" it must hava heen fir Principal Grant under these cir cumstances to desert Sir Charles Tuy per in 1900! 1 jpay well reiterate his own words, "The anlgeity, of the thing » re one,"' especially there i foundation for the slan- der, which I igmuediately contradicted in the fnust public manner. % * Principal Grant's support of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1896 and 1900 was from. every point of 'view most unna- tural, but you will have to find somd other justification for it than. that alleged by you, . 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