bs / f seine ; t « % esdaipanasaart ea | a: 3 Se 2 & 2 i ; 2 : ¢ é a . 2 ; = z ' E i] Fi . % Ps 4 : 4 bY z 2 a @ j od al VOL. XI. STRATFORD, ONT., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1886. arcane -- eases a 98TH DECEMBER, 1886. ELECTORS OF NORTE AND SOUTH PERTH | Keep Your Eyes on the Above Date. REMEMBER, IT IS POLLING DAY. At Nine A. M. o'Clock Let All Electors' Proceed Direct To The Polls, and Record Their Votes For Honest and Capale Men. THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES NORTH PERT #. GEORGE HESS, | SOUTH PERTH. ! JOSEPH W. CULL, OF MITCHELL OF LISTOWRi. THE GRIT "LAWB" FOR SLAUGHTER. HOW MR. SCHMIDT WORKED BIiK GERRY- MANDER OWN CANDIDATURE ED REDFORD--- 1s REPRE" FOR RIEL. ----HIS BRIBERBS ALREADY a* WORK. HOW ME WORKID UP HIS , Hop 1B DEFEND- | Ever since the day Mr. Qoorge Hess beat Mr. D. D. Hay in North Perth, '* the; pairty " in this section have, len breath- ing anathemas ayainst the Teoria for nom- inating and sucopssfully electigg a *'damn- ed Datchman!" To think the an enter- prising, honest and capable German should et into Parliament--above al, over the bead and shoulders of a Scoteyman, was something terrible for Grits to gourn and | whine over. The Beacon': Scotch. | Gritch haid fheck.rneen tig } Fy r and aight, aad at ome of these it we decided | | that Logan was to be gerrymancred into | i South Perth, and then, to ase thi language | { of a well known Grit office belder, the Logan Germans " could either go to the | devil or to Ballantyne |!" THE GERRY MANDER. Mr. Schmidt, of the Stratford Avloni«t, was consulted sbout this, dnd be said it ' was a capital idea, as most of tee Logan Clermans Lutheran | Tores, would always vote against the Grts. schmidt is not so sleepy aw he i sleepy. looking, and we give him credit fait. He saw thafé the closer the tetal vow of the two parties in North Perth #tood,the Let ter for him. With pver a|bundied of a Tory majority, Schmidt was sowbere. With a tie (about) Schmidt wa: every Explained thus :--Mr. Hess, a German, being the Conservative candi- date, the Grits dare nat run a Seetchman or a8 Irishman --they must nominate a (jerman, and who had they outtide of Mr. J. H. Schmidt? The angwer is, no- body! Conseyaently, Mr. Schmidt us now the (Grit candidate--made so oy Mr. Schmidt. Good fer Schmidt, say we. It shows that Mr, Schmidt has imbiled some editorial and political cunning fron being eo long a next ddor neighbor to Tur Times, and new direct o-a-cix to the same live printing bows. SCHMIDT AS A CANDEDATE. Ge in and win, frieud Sehmidt, if you can. If the Riding mast be represented by a Grit, a German editot is acceptable any time to the miserable office-holding and ottice-secking Scotch Hay clique, who have brought diegrace upon Nerth Perth thmugh their avarice, greed, and thimble-rigging propensities, in all matters | . We will bay this for Mr. Schmidt --although he has shown that be is possessed of considerable political canning in securing his omination, we believe that so far he is honest. The electors of North Perth will, we have no fear, protect his honesty by leaving him at home. For so mre ae Adam fell in the garden of Kden m sure will Schmidt fali if be becomes ane of the followers of the present dishonest, and Mr. were where. ¢ i men the tune will be different, for with business money gone, constitution broken down, will they make up for his losses * Not acent! Grits ain't built that way ! A DEFENDER OF RIEL. In this' election, as in past ones, Tax injured, | Times will fight for the Conservative can- | didates until the last vote is polled. No | Coquetting with Grits or rebels--both terms are synonymous--and let all Conservatives | likewise stick to their party, if they think jit is right. If they do not think so | let them go Grit. Mr. Schmidt comes for- ward as the candidate of men who say the double-dyed murderer and traitor Riel wasa martyr! That he died for his good deeds--not for his bad. When Mr, | Schmidt goes into Mornington, Elma, and Wallace, let him tell this atory the same | as he tells it in his paper to the people of | Stratford every week, Fortunately for Mr. Schmidt, his paper is printed in the German language which prevents nearly all but his own fellow country- from reading what he writes. But when he speaks, he must do so in the English language in English sections, and he can thea be understood by , English speaking peopie. LOOK OUT FOR BRIBERA. The fight will be a close ome. There is no uae if denying this fact-~only an enemy or traitor to Mr. Heas would say otherwise. Hess enters the fleld with only three votes To win that three aod tern it into a minority, the Grits and the government will spend $10,000 in bribery, corruption, repeating and fraud. Already we hear that a well-known briber has been sent into Elma and Wallace. We say to the Conservatives there, watch this dirty scoundrel, and if you catch him string him up to the first dead limb that you come to-----a warning to all such carrion crows. Men of Wallace, Elma, Morning. ton and Ellice, if these bribers become too thick about your homes--shoot them as you do blackbirds in ae cherry season. ee FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN! to his credit side. There are table men in the field in Mert, Perth { or the Local . traction ¢ the editor of Tux Ties and Mr. Schmidt y have -- been on the best terme of, eyeey pamnoaty Grit pews will change vs us from our deter- abe or -- criticiem in 'matter how much we ma me WR him fore and aft a a We also advise our staff of correspontien that however much they ma feel clisposed to differ with Mr. Schmidt during his candidature, or how much the Grit press may shower their customary abuse upon the Conservative standard-bearer, Li incapable, and recklessly extravagant gov- ernment which has brought Ontario to the verge of tinancial ruin, We Mowat: Pardee. Hardy squad of ** AS A TOOL OF KREMPORD Tix Times wdcomes Mir. Schmidt to the front. He is the only man the Grits mean the | beoodlers." haveever pradaged in Notth Perth that-| we will not give the ase of our columns oe personal attacks in reply. In this welien as in the past, Tue Times will ches Geit rs good manners and de- | show , although it wosid be jnpossible to uselese to hope that they lesson in decency tuward a They take their texts thee are ' personal | cape t, am | ary 1 learn a i political of spomen bt. i 4 from the (ler, ant could be charged with being tainted with | use ond detraction i rape yew nd | honesty F | Malignancy "hatred, tinalioe am uo -- ah i tes alas ' that de gucted aede ch aritableue ma." it lue Times. rannot He mest Jamie Redford, wham Mr. Schmidt¢ win without using these es then we always apheld ; and up to/this day, Mr. shall have to submit _© defeat i i ; ~chmidt never gould tind time nor space to tell his German readers what a scoan j MECHANICS } AND. WORK. drel, rogue aed thief James Redford was " | INGMEN! No. no; it Hedford bad been a Tory he weuld soon kawe dene so, The Bearon's | artitle annoagcing Mr. Schmidt's birth into a full-fledged (ir candidate ia word for word | with what it ssid whee that runaway | and defaulter plsnderer of widows, or- phans aod charche--James Hedford--was indaced to become the ** palirty " staadard | bearer in theaame riding of North Perth The Beacon snd the Grits will flatter Mr. | s Go and hear Hon. Mr. Mowat explain on Thursday night in the City Mall, the great |kindmess he is doing you in |allowing his Convicts i that Mr. Schmidtnow wants to represent. | cheaper Bricks made by Con- victs Schmidt so long at be and bis friends have a dollar to be sqteezed out of them ; bat | #9 toon as he js beaten at the polls, then oe eee one 'Vote -or Hess 23° a21C:3:!. With Logan taken off North Perth, Mr. | | MR. W. MOWAT'S VERACITY. A CHALLENGE--DARE MB. WILLIAM MOWAT ACCEPT IT? Last week, Mr. William Mowat sddress- ed the following letter to the Beacon, in reply to an article in Tax Times, respect- ing his actions as a member of the Strat- ford St. Andrew's Boolety 1- "a FLAT CONTE ADT: "To rear gnenn oF te eancen. mae : ' isgue of the Stratford Times says that if 1857-5 of tise fyles of the we te that | ~ called the Catholics s * dirty priest ridden crowd iT " The Matoments are wv ure, &e., "WM. MOWAT. » Stratfor?, Dee. 1, 1886." . Why did not Mr. W. Mowat go further im his demalt Why did he not deny thet he ever printed the Beacon '--that he ever owned it'?--that he ever published it! He would have been just as near the trith had he said 80, as be is im the above letter. We have no desire to misrepresent Mr. Mowat in any manner, because. his Strat- ford record is go well known that it is osily tiaving the truth told about him that causes that gentleman to wince. Now since Mr. Mowat has said that Tur Times stated an -untfuth about him we must go back for proof to the fyles 6f the ** Stratford Beacon™ in the years 1857 and 1858. The Beacon was then owned, edited and published by ' Wm. Mowat,"--the same "Wm. Mowat" who is now a banker, as: Ontario license official, and an Ontario inguer of marriage licenses, and writer of the above letter. We select for example a single quotation from among others in our possession, It is-known by all old residents of Strat- ford at that time (1857-8), that the Grit candidate in Perth at the election of 1857 was Mr. Wm. McDougall, thea an editor of the Globe, (since the Hon. Wm McDougall). He ran as a Grit " No Popery," " No Separate Schools" can- didate. The | Conservative was the late Mr. T. M, Daly, eheeted by a large majority. During the the Beacon wae = filled' abuse everything pertain ing to the French or Irish Roman Catholics. We question if any paper in what was then Upper Canada excelled the Reacon in its virulence, malignity, brutality. and the cowardliness of its at- tacks upon Irish Catholica. So bad was it that a copy of that paper was actually placed in a receptacle for filth in a village then called Irishtown, near where Dublin campaign with of roadside---the late Mr. Richard O"Loane, a Heformer, (brother of Mr. James O'Leane, police magistrate of this city) applying the match which consumed the 'dirty rag" aa it was then called. Having explained eo much of the cir- camstancese prevailing in those years, we sive one quotation this week, but will foliow it up with others until we satisfy the people residing in this section in 1884, what kind of « liberal-minded "christian™ Mr. W. Mowat wae in 1857-8. It will be noticed that the article was written after the election was over. During the cam "dirty rowdies," roughs," etc., were ied to the people of Downie, Ellice and Logan, weekly. The estract reads as follows :-- * On looking to the Townships " which gave Mr. Daly his large "Mr. Daly ewes his clection al- "most entirely to THE WARN- "HEARTED DOGANS OF EL- " LICE, LOGAN AND THE GORE "bis majorities in these places | "and he would be nowhere. So- "it can new be seen that the, INTELLIGENT Electors of the "County as a bedy were in faver "of Mr. McDougall." We respectfully ask Mr. Wm. Mowat to deny the authorship and the publication of the above if he dare' Will he say under oath, for the sake ot establishing his character for veracity, that he did not "write, indite, print, or pdblish." the above copied words in the Stratford | | Beacon, in the year above mentioned * We want » straightlorward reply ne j half-and-half! Did you not write those | i words, words to the same effect, | iMr. Mowat * Did you mot indite ithem? But above all did you neither | print nor publish them in the Stratforf | Plea m, when you were ite editor, pub lisher, and proprieter? Come, sir, you know you did--and we know you dul' Now, sir, in order to show the pubdi that we are pot stating what is untrue about you, we make you this offer :- We will furnish to Kev. Dr. Kilroy, | Mr. Mayor Macgregor, and Mr. James |; Gorcoran dates of the days and sponthe in which similar sbuse of Irish ios appeared in the Stratford Hea- .| Com, when you and you alone, was ite editor and proprietor; and if you get permission from Mr. Matheson (in order to establish your truthfulness) for theese gentle to examine his fyles for those years, they were your fyles before now stands, and was publicly burned on the | i "OF DOWNIE. Deprive him of you sold the establishment, we will prove all the other charges made against you and ten times more and worse ones. If, after those gentlemen are allowed to examine the iseacon fyles of 1857-8, they do not say that we are correct in our charges against you, we will make a most hanble apology, and stand before our fellow-men as an editor weak enough to imagine that publishing an untruth would annoy Mr. Wm. Mowat--who,as we said before, fears the truth being said about him much niore he does untraths, But it we do establish the truth of what we said, in whole or in part, and if you cannot dis prove what we said, then Mr. Mowat where will you stand? what are you! Well, to let you down easy, we willanswer for you--and say, 'what you always were." The public can supply the words ! erectile init HE ALWAYS DONE HIS DUTY TO HIS COUNTRY- MEN? HOW MK, SCHMIDT WINKED AND BLINKED AT REDFORD [X HIS BASCALITIES HONEST GERMANS WERE VICTIMIZED AND ROBREL THROCGM MIS FRIENDSHIP A CHAPTER OF MODERN FINANCIAL His- TORY -- SCHMIDT'S '"' INDEPENDENCE " KXrosm. : ~-- HOW The Grit press just now are loudly prais- ing Mr. Schmidt for giving good and free advice to his countrymen whenever they required it. Has he always done so? We say no! When James Redford was taking money from widows and orphans--- stealing it, for, in the case of Redford ra, Butler, it was proved that he did so--did Mr. Schmidt in his paper warn his country- men of the rascality of the said- James Redford, and publish the damning evi- dence given in open court? No; he was being paid by Redford with fat jobs of printing and advertising to keep quiet about such matters at that time--and he hep quiet. Perhaps we should not grumble at this, When es man accepts hugh money, he isin honor bound to keep His mouth sbut and his pen still--at least bo far as his purchaser's rascalitie: are concerned. By Mr. Schmidt's action in keeping Ger- man people in this section in the dark a that time about Redford, they were vic- timized to the extent of thousands and thousands of dollars. | CERMANS WHO WERE BOREED BY REUPORD, ' We publish the names of a few of the Germans who were victimized by Redford, anil the amounts they lost by him :-- Fred. Beechler . -. 8%61 40 harine Mentor (widow). 725 43 eobold Brumner...... 206 00 Heary Cook . sogeesece MOD William Neigh 543 03 Valentine Otto ............ 167 66 John Paulen ......-...+5 201 00 George Pauli .....-.0.--.-5 228 75 George Pebles,...........+- 97 06 Michael Pirammer <..... ae a3 Valentine Pirammer........ 142 93 -- Purrer ..... eabevabiae 845 2 Heury Ratz... # 20 a2 v sleutine Rohfreitch .. 200 00 Valentine Kohtireiteh (execu- tor of the orphans of M b.. .. 1300 00 Joseph A aenas dheeewn 500 00 Theobald Schuster... . 147 00 Jacob Beebach ............ 279 00 wid Sebring. ............. 205 Caroline Nehcord {widow) .. 1542 00 Fiederick Siebert ......... 24 00 Heary Herald cgpense cose 300 00 MR. SCHMIDT AB A STOOL-PIQBEON FOR RELPFORD. Will it be believed that thie newly- discovered, heaven-born purist and Grit political angel was actually in the habit of going to Mr. Redford"s office with hig constrymen, and would interpret their business to that arch-thief and defaulter, James Redford, then Grit M.P. for North Perth * For the mke of afew paltry dol | lara, and the privilege of shaking Redford's | hand, Mr. Schmidt weuld sit by and see his countrymen duped in broad daylight by a man that Mra. Smith (widow of the i deceased Kegistrar for Perth) swore in Mr. Schmidt's hearing, in the Stratford | Assize Court, had stolen moneys from ber | bushand, and cheated her children out of | their heritage!! J. Hi. Schmidt, the present Grit candidate for North Perth. | knew that Kedferd wax a rogue, a thief, j and of necessity must soon become a de faulter, yet he allowed his poor conntry men to be fleeced right under his nose by | | that Seetch | man, (irit freed! He is a cive represent Germana or any other «lass of 'The Grits had better | bring Jamie Redford back from Texas and | Select him instead of Mr, Ballantyne, and | let these two (?rit worthies sit side b ry mil ** Mowat's Sheep's (ial the community ' | in what is called | lery," in Toronto. SCHMIDT'S TOLMTICAL INDEPENDENCE. To talk of Mr. Schmidt's independence balderdash. He possesses no more political independence than does the editor of thetirit paper from which he reprints the most of his political news, via., the Stratford Beacon ' He in just as servile a tool as there is in the whole Grit peddle, and we say it to his credit--for he is too strong a Grit "te ren with the hare and bunt wit: the hounds "--be ie indeed, to send to Parliament to | with the hounds all the time, and has a4 keen a scent for "* pap" in the shape of printing German Emigration pamphiets at five times the regular ratee--in 1876, 1877 and 1878--days 4f goed Grit rule--as any Grit editer we kaow af--not excepting his teas in the Reach office. Independence, forsooth | It's gnough te make a horse sick, leave alom a Tory editor like Tuk Tims man. The factof the whole busi- ness in the Bearoht wants to get rid of his Grit German cogfrerg----there are to toe many Grit paper in this city, to suit that antiquated orgas, and thes in order to bill off the Kolowit and cause ite removal to seme other towhy Mir, Matheson kindly wants to send Mir. Shumidt to Parliament, What os disinterested friend Sandy ix, to be sure. H@ krigwa that, win oF lose in North Perth, My, Schmidt must of a Yertainty 'howe!) x large portion of his business, amd wha will be the gainer? The Beacon of pourse. It takes a catiny. Scotchman to i straight road through a barred gate!; When you eateh Mr, Matheson drumming ap hole-and corner meetings, and burning the midnight off with half a dizzen party hacks in bis sanctum, you cag make up your mind that it's the bawbees not patrictiam be is after, It takes time to throw light on these mat- ters; but as Mr. Hees remarked at Sir Stratford meeting Grits always get thes want aml more too from Tories. F Sebmidt has placed hin- self in a nice trap, antl he will realize it to the fullest extent before he is « year older! 1 <3 ee AND RIES Co and hear Hon. G. W. Ress explain in the City Hall, on Thursday me xt, what. a great | « Reas will shew you a ~ is your daty aud ought te be r pleasare to assist in allies "the money bags of this Scotch owner of the Toronte " Glebe!" ated ene MRK, HESS'S OPPONENT. From the Lidtonndl Banner. ff At ~ Reforks vouvention heii im Strat Tuesday, Mr, Schmidt, of the Hess, fers at the plections now pending - fer understand the Ontario We _| thetit was oat after much coax and Mr. Schmidt jaot ing to acoept ithe woul! gladly have es linquished his. m @ horn ' ould- i * face the music," so, Mr. | as oe te oe x have oringing Mr, Schmidt out as Mr. Hess's opponett admit that his! chief qualification is' that he ia a German, aed they hope to capture s @f the German vote jn the riding through ee him a their candidate. The however, is not the io Parliament, as well ad a countryman df their. own, and whose ree th bout has been approved of fr his colleague, Mr, Creighton, member for 'North Grey, these townships would @n- doubtedly hate bern kept oat of it dorian indefinite length of time, an the Mowat lover the mopey. The fact in that Mr. Heas has been too faithfal to his conetite Is ente 'to suit the office loving schemers at Toronte, and henee Nerth Perth hae been | gerry manderdd with the object of ley hing him at heme Im aiming thie blow jot Hews, the Mowat Govern gislature, and they can depend ati the inenit apin their pationality will pot bs conciliated -by the placing of anc , | erman in thie fell for the sole purpeme | o aplitting the German vote That Hees will be returned by as late, not «larger! majority than at the Bact election is slready assured from the splendid success ne is meeting with in his canvass in the south the riding, } Vote For HESS and CULL. te len tions, from, at cout, of this stoc * (Giovernment were in no herry to hand | } ; ; { nt have endeavored to deprive the (her | mans of theif only representative im the | I Darnens } Nt. Joneru's Caukent. services are being hepl i ( nuke h all this week..~ Vee te that Rev. Dr, Kilroy te been suffgring from iHness for the past * Nelson expecta #¥or duty!" This is.ahe'h Ealinbarg Neleen: whos from on ep. -~Mr. Th to his bh a a bad Gen and hang Seiden Th " his peri for Mr. Schmadt. Lene T stovk at No. 23, Machi with the latest noveltie' rey urs Cx Aen Sur. The dplete lias from the manafacturert two months. Thue beibig gouds, no Letter oppert to pros rH pose hoses: the holicda C +t ATIV ES, 'Hewank | Schmidt has the cheek, tives te vote for him and ca on personal erp' ative: we waule- Sonat asks you to vo ask him did he ever vot tive for Parliament on: nda? if neo, whee r. Sehmidt never vet last «young san ' gi i] Z e. a & Pa iefbrits tr iB. G,-did yn recen¥ ; hin the ---- city if' tie lives fe be as | aid as Methusalem, tickle Mr. Goedwia't onakey | from kicking over festive of his Nootel . they nowdanted Nien | te gtive tien Chance to thank th eonrk O0t see through the triek ' | Grit method of giv is ta kick at rE ~ =< -- Vota. or wi Hut to : and kéep him, traces or growing rit collar, #hea in tor Pack t. © whbe er becomes tinge ont-- then Gubrace kia vietinn, and with: genie round assure bim _ oveny ss kindness 'and ss a reward for Mot Mr. Sentivia is (one -of thom: ki that the babd . past the stamp of. Davitt: dustin MeDarthy, Dillon, jarld fewer ltiakmen. be more, chance nb dete ee of Catholies jar ag proper ehage <f pe "amentany rep ceentatton,