| ---- a So PEGE EERE SEREEOEm All kinds of new fur gar. ments made to ' special measure, and we alsc have unsurpassed facilities fcr re- modelling, repairing, and re- & dying furs at short notice 42 that makes it possible for us B to tramsform your old Furs Bo new. We guarantee per- { satisfaction as to fit. John MeKay Fur House, © { 140-155 Brock St. We always . keep a good pesijon on hand and make ®to order any special size or "shape. f Our gold is rich . in color and style, and workmanship hy from the maker and the advantage in price. lo that he was £ 190. Having 'recognized the | plete department of education, Rl authorities, WHTNEY WAS ONFA For School of Pedagogy--Toronto University Received the Lion's Presented Here. Kingston, June 6.--(To the Editor): The quéry of yesterday's correspon- dent evidently refers to the recent up turning of the 'Collegiate Institute staff at the behest of the minister of 'education. It was an instance + of |[e2artsm entirely out of place in go minster of education, or in any other minister, Hut, perhaps, it was mq attempt, by bluffing at "ideals," to {make the people of Kingston believe f making amends for the {uge discrimination he had made in favor of Toronto. Education is perhaps the most dispensable branch of tae public ser- vice. The professional training of teachers is important through their non-professional training is much more : He importanes of this professional training, and having decided to divitle the work be- tween the two great universities, the Whitney government should have made equally adequate provision in both centres. Il well trained teachers are necessary in ope part of the provimee they must be equally so in every oth- er part. the government gave same $75,000 to Toronto to equip a com- with ite own model school staff of pro- fessional expert teachers, professors of edubation, ete. It gave Kingston $5,- 000 which it has, it is true, increased to 0,000. But what is $9,000 com. {pared with 75,000 7 | It is plain as daylight that the {fame service cannot be given the pub- lic in the two places, The miserable in- Bl | piece, of boteh and patehwork was re {sorted to of utilizing the Kingston public schools to the derangement and injury of the people's service and to {unavoidable friction between the twa Sooner or later the { Kingston hoard of education will gs isert its independence and refuse to be # controlled hy an irrespondible outside § | official. . jhe extreme, and the Whitney govern: 3 JEWELLER, Issuer of Marriage --8 3 { The situation is absurd in ment is primarily resvonsible for it. 1 Yaney a broad-minded liberal govern | ment--with, say, Pense in the cabinet be establishing a one hundred thousand {dollar training college for teachers for * part of the province and a nine {thousand dollar one for another.-- St EDUCATIONIST, = For a cheap This is the remarkable accomplishment White Enamel Refrigerators With loss feo than you have ever used be- fore, It is Worth your while in the ine terest of health and economy (0 have one of our Refrigerators, We have them from' © $7.00 up to $42.00. v have GALVANIZED, 4 ENAMEL apd GLASS LINED. 2 M-- W. A. Mitchell's Hardware, WHITE on Assured. Lettering Cameteries Neatly and Prompt 'Emscuted, trip, take the excur sion to Watertown, Saturday, Ham. or 2 pm., Sundav. 8 am. or 2 pum, returning up to and including Monday afternoon Those wishing to help the Y.W.C.A. will not forget to aid in the garden party, Friday, June 12th. 7 NOTICE TO THE ELECTORS. To help the electors of this riding] to arrive at proper conclusions on Monday next, the undersigned hereby relieve. all voters who have givem pledges or | romiscs to J. H. Mdtealie, the independent lator part? candi date, F. Ringston Labor J. CORKERY, Branch Party of ln Un President of dependent tario, J. I. METCALFE, Candidate. To the Electors of Kingston and Portsmouth, Gentlemen (--Belore you go to the polls on Monday nest. | deem it my duty to address 5 few' words to you. In doing this there is on my part, no desire 10 @iinge or fawn, to the vot ers of this old histotic oiky. So far as I can recollect this is my first open letter ever, penned to my fellow eiti- zens. Many false rumors concerning my candidature, in the present con: tsb have been with evil intent spread about the city<and to be fair, 1 le lieve that grit and tory have partici pated in this unmanly conduet. It is my earnest wish that every elector will go to the polls free, unshackled and mnprejudioed, voting as his con- st.ionce dictates, for the best intercsts of this province, and for the canui- date, so lar as sdech voter can. judge, who will best advance the prosperity. of Kingston. It is my earne:t disre that this election be conducted free from bribery and corruption in every particular. The is now an honust ballot, and 'here will be a fair count. Let political efforts ke as keen as you wisghy cut out the corroding evil of bribery, which saps the foundations of our free institutions, and harls the whole; beautiful superstructure to the Lection Share--An Action Which is! THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, S ATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1908. | HURTING THE Mr. for it- self. Metealfe's letter speaks The Nickle machine has succeed- field his ed in removing him from the and the assurance people will appreciate that he conducted and corruption. A 'million dollars, he said in the Uity to de him wants to see' an without bribery Hall, would not induce him sert the party that had tendered their support, and it is strange "that at the eleventh hour he shéuld step out of the contest. a right to be annoyed, and to claim | that they have been deecived and de- serted. It will be surprising if they The Independent Labor party Hive LABOR PARTY. thing could retire him from the test. Mr. Metcalfe has left the aber party in a lurch. The Nickie machine has in some way silenced him, but it ean pot signee the men who hod faith in his pledges. They will size up the situation, they will read between the lines of Mr, Metcalle's epistle. They will realize the Nickle influence and they will refuse to be handed over as e& chattel to the Nickle machine. Mr. Metealfe is not the easuse of ntuch worry in this contest. The wa- chine despised hie power, his capacity and his political worth. It had' an eye on the vote which he was pro- mised and the vote which has vainly sought representation in the legisla- com 80 do not, in their own way, d&Xpress their disapproval of Mr. Metcalie's go- tion. The presidefit of Mr. Metcalfe's com- mittee accepts his declaration of per- sonal surrender. But what about the labor voters who accepted Mr. Met. calle's candidature in earnest and ture through him, : What this Independent Labor Party ~--outside of those who negotiated the surrendler--think of the situation no one can imagine, The votes will he cast on Monday, however, and it safe To say that they will not go as designed to Mr, Nickie in this emer is acted upon his proclamation that no- A report is current to the effect that Mr. Nickle's party will stop at noth- ing on Monday in order to'secure votes. Therp is, to start with, a ca- pacigus cammign fund--some say $15,000--and money will be poured out like water whergver it is caloula- ted to have effect, Desperation is the mood of the Nickle 'election managers. They have decided that they will risk exposure, scandal, condemuation, repudiation it- self, in their mad attempt to redeem the constituency, Hence the refusal of the party. to re- spond to the challenge which the liberals threw: out when Mr. Pense was given a nomination. The liberitls desired a clean clection, they desire it A WORD OF WARNING. geney. still, and they will have it anyway. The conservatives want votes at any price, and they will pass the hoodie out in handfuls between now and Monday evening. f Mr. Whitney's advice is, "Take the money, vote as you lke, and inform upon the bribers afterwards." The liberals in any electoral division of the city will do well to see that the special instructions they have received in this respeet are faithfully carried out. : : The motto of the campaign is: "Work and Wateh.'" The rich man, the rich corpmration, and the g8%ern- ment that.is bold enough to be dis- honest, can and will be called to ac- count for their wholesale debauchery, BEWARE THE The conservative party is true to jts ideals, In the at the eleventh hour, it threw its baits out form of the La Rose deal and C.N.R. guarantees. In/Kingston the party, driven desperate by 'the out- look, is spreading false and malicious legislature, in the stories about Mr. Pense and the lib- eral party. They follow the leader in eleventh hour\mppeals, knowing them 10 be incapable of daylight investiga: tion. Beware of the whisperers and gossippers. In preceding elections endeavers were made by conservative whisperers to poison whole races against Pense, the liberal candidate, utterly false grounds. The same brought into play now. Korsooth he on poliey is being At the time the city Supplied the logomotive worke with power, its en- gine was disabled and it had to get relief from some source or close down. I'he best the electricity at four hour (not three cents, as stated), and city would do was give cents a kilowatt it was surely as much entitled to con- sideration as the street railway. Yet TS IN ONTARIO. Could anyone expect a straight con- the Standard; for by its stdctics it seems to be the The sup- the same old party with THE TORY SPLI {By An Elector.) There has not been since confedera- tion such a split, and such dissensions in the conservative party. One side blames the other for machine rule and stuffing their conventions, and each side protesting against one part or another of the Whitney governmént's record. : A FLATTERING RECORD. Good Thimgs Pense Has Brought to Kingston. Aided to secure : J: Rockwood electric plant, °87,500. 2. Rockwood nfw nurses' home, $10,000. : 3. Dairy School improvements, $8,- 000, 4. Assistance in new uiinng build ing, $100,000, 5. For mining schools annual sap- " He NICKLE AND THE POWER. : Lbe loyal to our king, our country, LAST HOURS. : is against the English. This is the champion falsehood, For the last twelve vears of its ex- he of St. George's Society and led in its Christ mas good cheer.g He has been invited to every Sens of England annual Jarade, as a fel low-member, and has been asked istence, was president to them, doing so as late Sunday last. 4 He proposed and madaged persanal- ly. last vear, the address as St. George's read- ing-room, where the Eoglishmen daily and nightlv gathered has al 8 heen the associate champion and Triend of his country- men, and those in Kingston have been his warm friends also. Mr. Nickle third of all the power produced by the 1.66 cents per kilo-watt, the to continue for one or four succeeded in getting the city at contract years, while Mg. Harty, in order to secure cheaper power and give employ ment to 600 hands, had to install his) own plant. In this case Mr. Harty could wait, and Mr. Nickie could not. test by the owners of same sheet as the old News. porters are the game old roorbacks; watch and | see. The Whig bas ever been found to and to Kingston. here to take up citizenship, though he hasn't vet been ada assumed the editorship of the Standard nounced and boasted that he was de- termined to run a clean election cam- puign, without anv nersonalities. But writing garding Mr, Pense that he should ashamed of. dicate his idea of a clean Sumpuign, of Mr. Pense"s worth 2' The excuse was made that Mr, Pense for Mr. Givens' scurrilous articles, taken thought keen business dollars, but keener to hang on to the dollars he had, and to see that dollars cording to himself, he is not a {who would have to walk if there were I no street carsy" | way seemed to {when the wives, | eity council in 1905, he and others de BIVENS AND NIGILE SEVERELY SCORED BY J. M'D. MOWAT. The Disloyal Writings of W. B Givens Dealt With--W. F. Nickle, is Out For His Own Interests Every Time. At the political meeting on behalf of Mr. Pense, last evening, J. McDonald Mowat paid his compliments to W. R Givens, editor of the Standard, and W. F. Nickle, in regard fo the street railway question, and he didn't handle either of them ith kid gloves. He said it remained Tor a recent arrival in the city, W. R. Givens, late of Mil- wapkee, in Uncle Sam's domains, to rise up and call Mr. Pense a "knook- er." The citizens of Kingston pesented this, for they khew Mr. Pense much better than that, and knew that he always fought and worked in the in- terests of the old limestone city. (Ap. plause.) Last summer, "Mr. Mowat said, be fore hecoming a citizen of Kingston, Me, Givens, the present editor of the Standard; the organ of W. F. Nickle, spent much ink in slandeving Canada, his mative land, in New York papers. He dislovally eried down the British empire and slandered Canndidns gen. erally. That was when he was far away. Now, Mr. Givens has come long enough in Can- vote, and will not vote in When Mr. Givens to Monday's election. : . TO-Night, From 7 t0 8.3 We will place on fale one of the best Embroidery specials we have ever shown 437 Yards Fine Corset Cover Embroidery All dainty patterns, many worth 30c and 35c. None worth less than 25¢. Your Choice To-night, : 15c. Mr. Mowat pointed out that he an- By re- be how has he kept that pledge? articles and accusations "If these articles of Mr. Givens' in he have said Mr. Mowat, "what would : dirty descended to had he wanted campaien ? (Loud laughter.) "ls there one man in Kingston who would regard Mr. Pense as a knocker at the bidding of this man; late of Milwaukee * Is that the kind of man you would listen to abusing a citizen ¢ ' (Cries of No! a No !) The whole matter arose out of the street railway power question awd W. F. Nickle's connection with it, said the speaker. All Mr. Pense ever did to the street railway was to help it, as the people knew, just as he had helped every Kingston industry along. Toye's attacks, but was behind Ald. That was the excuse this ,was false. Mr. Mowat said he wasn't sorry that the street railway discussion had pace. Previously he had Mr. Nickle an exceedingly man, keen to acquire his in a concery But, ae-4 keen business: man, but poses as a philan: thropist, putting out his money for the benefit of the city into something that wouldn't pay. At the city hall meeting, Mr Nickle, he 8aid, drew a moving picture of the mothers and daughters were invested that would make a return. oor wives, "But the street rail- shut down at times mothers god daugh ters needed the cars most, when the snow was deep, as it did mn the win ter of 1905, and threatened to do in February last if the city didn't ex- pend money in clearing the streets of snow. Was Mr. Nickle a philanthro pist when he forced the city to clear Stockings For All the Family Women's Fast Black Cotton Stock- ings, 10¢, 12}c, 15¢. Women's Fine Imported Black Stock- ings, 25¢. Women's Black Lisle Thread Stock- ings, 35¢c, 39¢, 45¢ and up. Tan Stockings for Women, 15¢, 20c, 25¢ and up. Tap Stockings for Children, all sizes, both in Cotton and Cashmere. Ladies' White Stockings, in a great variety, 15¢, 20c," 25¢, 3bc up. Children's White Stockings, sizes and many makes. Boys' Famous Leather Knit Black Cotton. This stocking the hardest wear, and now great sale, all sizes, 15¢ to 25c. in all Fast stands has a > COOL UNDERWEAR FOR MEN AND BOYS Fine make Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, shirts with long or short sleeves, S0c. Very Light Weight Natural Wool Shirts and Drawers, 3 qualities, 75¢, 90c, 9c. Boys' Balbrigggan Shirts and Draw- ers, all sizes. Prices range from 25¢ up. the snow 7" From the very first, Mr Mowat said, the street railway people have driven o hard bargain with the atv COO] Underwear for Nickle! couldn't get. what he wanted from the city, ho'went to the legislature for it, and forced the city to do what he wanted, He put the city to the expense of £1400 last win- ter for snow And vet he posed as a "philanthropist." ' Mr. Mowat said that when the street railway agregment before the When Mr removal. came manded that it be referred to the people for their vote. A: a liberal, he believed in seeking the opinion of the people and trusting them. My. Mowat said he never knocked the street railway, and did not knock it pow, hut as Mr. Nickle was posing KNOWN BY. HIS FRUITS. Splendid Career and Records of | Liberal Candidate. Ll. Ghairman of Board of Education. | 2. Chairman Collegiate, 3. Chairman General Hospital. 4. President Women's & lege. 5. President Kingston Athletic sociation. 6. President Humane Society. 7 Chairman Board of usical Cel As Governors a8 a philanthropist he simply wished to show that he was no .such thin~ but had put his monev into the rail way, becavse he thought it would pay. H We didn't do it for the benefit of any one but himself and his pocket Again, Nickle, the "philanthropist," fought against the citp acquiring the 10c, 12}c, 13¢, 20e, 25c¢ up. short sleeves, others no siecves. Women and Children Ladies' Thin Summer Undervests, Some with Drawers to match 25c. Ladies' White English Merino Vests, summer weights, 49¢, 6c, 75¢. light and power plant, which, under eivie control, has benefit] the people so much. Nickle, the 'philanthropist' fought the city inch hy inch, through every court in Canada, and finally to the privy council in England. That wast 'the kind of "philanthropist" he Chinamen who later admitted une that they had been od across Lake Erie. from tin Canpda, in a motor brought to Buffalo, were ar- Saturday, Ove had lived in 00000 6000000000000 0T00OOTOA SPECIAL SHOE BARGAINS was, Mr. Mowat said he woulde't " have referred to the street railway question if Mr. Nickle hadn't paraded himself as a martyr. port $37,500, 6. Sir' George Kirkpatrick Memorial collected $4,500, 7. Graud Opera leadership, $41,000. Miging School. 8, Member city council. 9. Mayor of Kingston, 1881, 10. Six years in Frovincial Legisla- ture. ground. My name as a candidate will appear on the ballot, but all voters who have given me promises, or pledg- es of support, are alsolved from such promises, and are as free as air to House dae to his several months.' : is in Montreal, nton with a challnge for oct as they deem proper, Yours Respectfully, 8. Proprietor of British Whig, 9. Owner Whig block, . 10. Promoter provincial health de partment ht (ueen's. z unyielding friendship for Queen's' College in the legislature and out. "ou ' A man who has sonfidence enough in thy good oll Limestone City, to live in it, work for it, invest Bis money in it, and fight for it to the Return him at the head of the poll on Monday, a . Known everywhere as a broad {ro gressive, puiticspliited ciiien and journalist, * "Trust the People" id the battle ery, and we believe that the "Peopls Trust Poise," and will reeloet him on Monday. : Notice. Office of the Secretary of the LLP, of Ontario. : Dear, Sir :--An important meeting of Branch No. 1, of the Independent Labor Party of Ontario, will be held aturday, June 6th . at 7.30 p.m. You are earnestly invited to attend i ; "FOR SATURDAY. "A Splendid Lot of Ladies' Fine Kid Blucher Lace Boots. The best we ever bad, SATURDAY A Splendid Lot of Ladies' White Canvas Low Heels, regular $1.50, SATURDAY -.- A Table Full of Ladies' Dorothy Dodd Blucher Cut fords and Patent . wmps, 83, $3.50, $3.75 Shoes A Boys' Strong Good Looking School Boot, sizes 1 to 5, reduced $0 «4c domes vena severe aaa $1.10, Girls' Chocolate and White Canvas Oxfords - 81 and $1.25. A Blucher Oxford Ox-