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J. L. 380““ tf. Phom‘h Sale. .ND I one or the moat a“ Plan» of“), M3 relturd 3 office m N applying to 5-. to suit the Dutch“: b’ for cash I8 apply to -'-~'-n a. ll fenced ‘d ‘ pf cultivni.‘ LOP 03 q ’9‘"? 9' in a comma. u "I" Quit. no: carding ho“. u lots on the west DH. part of Lots 10 i n. the east side of Ga.- 1 of Lats IO ll. SHING T0 PUB. building lots would t John A. Warren’s Park Lot mun!!! street, in the Gov- Tuwn of Durham. vflice of J. P. To!- ofiice of the undo:- rticulau apply to 3%.. i acre. at proo- win. The hm». is rout. 3 large rooms ith 15 foot kitchen. .woodsth with cin- n houso "04 bed- water well at door. good underground iron fence in front iculars apply to ACI‘ARLAXB. o a dw'e'lling: if. I! by the owner as a ’0 52.9%“! of build- {8t .I') DA V I DSON Clan inaction. EIGHT. Sale. ale. "vice in Durhl. and Queen street. before the first 0‘ «lispmed 0' baton {ed fvr whale! ill ts apply to to plan! :rchasod .AXE, laden. Pool Co. PRICES OUT- .ervice. ED AYRSBIRE buildjnggu it 35;: pl ['1' ll. Ptoptwo 3 DOORS CORNER rk Divnsion Court. KER. Durham no of For Sale. .\I. lit 31'“, 00th.. Fur Sale. t0 Will he's'oié €553} Dumas. Om. J R., Proptiuat, For Sale. building lot. m VALU A131,; Dutbam. Mn. 1 Durham. QUEER R. Preston, Government oficial, spdt'izl! organizer; "Cap” Sullivan. 0 F .‘.!;u-.l)onald. and Duncan Bole, . ‘ I o MOVPIHDBHt officers; Pom LOW". W. U. Ht):‘pil]s, Jo Go PritChet“ E. D. ifrnslexx. Martin J. Cahill. Egch man one no Then the organizers were intro- !nved and the ” best moral forces ” gr? t1» work. It is dimcnlt to find how many took part, but the more prominent were the followina:â€"Mr. Azex. Smith. then and now chief or- g‘mzer ; Mr. James Vance. than and now assistant organizer; Mr. W. T. Mr. Preston was particnlnrly proud of his entourage. He made a speech a: St. Thomas in which he laid :â€" '- Not. a man among them but has #023»: how Openly and at his own ex- ;nmae. and out of the love of the value of good Government. When an wimttion is over our opponents v.51: not be able to put a finger upon any zutt. of wrong-doing.” .‘lr Preston also attended Sunday skin, ,1 a: St. Thomas, and addressed the scholars. He asked them to sing his favorite hymn: “There is Sun. x'htlh’ in My Soul To night.” Mr. ,‘siacnish won the election. defeated My. McDiarmid, and Mr. Preston tel- egraphed Mr [anions thus: Toronto, Jan. 12th, 1899. Donald Macnish, St. Thomas- Heurtiest congratukations. Sorry to the bottom of my bean. I cannot. be- with you to-night. To be supported by such: noble army of workers. should make you :h» proudest man in Ontorio. Shake hamh with the boys for me, ond hug the members of the much obnoed threshing machine for Anld Long Syue. PRESTON. W071i ”H the following day Mr. 1’70"“ t'r’str‘x‘xed his appointment as Immi- «:-..:n_m COHHDlSSiODBf, which Ind sl- q :‘rzt ly bet-n arranged for, M. the h‘fld! »: 'm- Federal Government. mm: THE FACTS LEAKED OUT. 'i: - mu leaked out owing to the \ . 4 l'llLitrY figures that we“ pro~ V 4’ Hot: election. It. was: found L' ';’ nne polling "00”” N0. 6 :l m ill. 104 vouns had vcted for 1-: ,.l: mM. l'u! that Oh!) 8'0.) '1.“ been . '»«i. .\t No. 4, Suntlmold. 34 - rim-y hall voted for McDiartnid ~ n. l'.’ had he?!) caulltod. No. 7 -" “L. mm», {N 113111 \‘Ulrti. but only “i . L lwcn ouuulcll. whilu there "" ' ..‘. mom that" usual counted for V ‘ ~31 In all 2:33 vows were ‘-‘ -' 0r slauzlml. In addition. ”i" H llit‘x f,‘ iHIS iu'c'll gunnru'. “n“ "L" A~' deputy Ie‘uiing office-HI hfl“ Wm mph 3 ed mule! Assume-J mum's. ilk“ {\fli'll‘ul' Il'flfl “IIIIP‘.I ml”. "|u -Ulvlu|‘u. “CCâ€"v- "" 5mm mm. He committed fraud. an d “'4‘ Am! pursued. Thomas C 4...": l' 3" T whurcd the allOfiéd " Stl"!'0fli " ‘u the syn-riff {or appointment. Cone. H.“ has since been appommd license mummy by the Government. _ John G. Pritcheu acted undo! '50 “MM: uf Marshal! B. John-non. “(fin h‘ ‘\“â€"'la\ ‘5“ Uld. Hfi~ b" ‘d.u 1‘“ fl. ‘ cu .l . urclfll‘ii‘g thfi‘ "C "”“M’ V“ "I :u in alul can-mu 'I‘h‘étiud "ml Lu "z-iipyzd " ulzflflw* . . ' _ ' _ . a A. i- A’ma.‘ “Ill .ol[ L“. ..s‘ii‘ltfd 11 "‘. 0"?” ”'IIV'H' |‘ “‘ wwiw-um a majoril) for Mt: “" \V’wu that candida-Io Wad [ft-all} ‘3 minority. hit-ch." IH’“ ;-"w" '{r‘xL ‘Cheel‘s.) Nigy- ..iberal party had attained p, guseut high position because mi mtxacted to itself the best m1 hunems in the country. and . mnxncnt it ceases to possess thnt ral force disintegration would set ll in” another stranger WIhomaa. undar Ginl only knew what the conse- m would be to the country if thu 11:1 happen.” .j ECLI‘I‘TION MACHINE - AND HOW IT WORKS. 1c 0! uniwr was Duncan Bola. Whv 4 M1 ‘dn‘ 11.]; Stafford. 80 Watt "Mlxzmwut. fidmry 0511:: 1' «WI 14mm”: agent b004,!” h." "W Hr' IHHII HIPSNUH. A! h“ ”u". 5!. rlCCl0r$ voted (or Mr H mm. and ou'y 42 were «OHDlCd m: Candidate. Procordnus we" Hui against hill). but ”DO GOVO'I'II' '- Ivfused to prom-clue. mm bum ’1 v mcrimnmtiug bulluzs M“! Huh} go! bill) 06. «mar was Martin (In-'3". “'30 mm! at. No. I). 8:. Thou». as H E. Montgomery. 110 com- »..l frauds and escrow-d thrnuuh “mining: of the Wluli. "3".” mi ut' the Government to 9'0““ to have a retinue and apecid (jrmtinued féom Pm 2. NIB ORGAE weaknesses of hnmnn In: 1 irregularities would occur .:(-._al parties were not free .gheves in keeping unitin 1:111 consciences of the people. . We could not. nuke the most 1 1 pnrtunitifis as : nation un- gmrilled into the youthful . ld'iHCiples of righteousness 1 upon the maintenance of .. high standards must be ...1 intact i! the best moral the community was to be ggmd the day would never .. the Liberal party would an those principles of polit- Jim which had been laid ilzuzkenzie, Blake and Mow- at . Macnish his congratu- would stand the closest SIZERS ARRIVE. “Rh-d ' the name 0‘ fit- I The second Case in which [he of- fender “an rescued from the private pl'OSt‘CULOR"! Was that of Martin J, Uathlii. This mam was one uf the Inumerous liOgus deputy returning Eufficera. He WAS brought into the siding by the machine. and was in. |smiled as deputy at No. 11, Sr, "I‘liunias, under the name- of Albet L E. I Montgomery, at Draperu‘ holder of; ‘that city. Cnhiil took the 03111,? 'naming himself as Montgomery, and! made faise documrms by signing} statements of poll and other papers; in Montgomery’s name. Be bad' been instrumed what to do, and he was charged with perjury and forgury When his frauds were dISOO\ area the Crown made no attempt to anest him. This work fell to priVitte pun. ies. who insisted that the C.'()~n At. torney should ptoseoute. Cathill. though charged With forgery, was .relomd .on 82,000 bail, with $500! :furthor given by himsdi. ‘ The incriminating document Devon" came to hand They had an new» burned in the Parliament Buildings. While waiting for them. and pretend- 3 in: the! they were still in existpuee, odd would yet come the Omen per- nitud the 31,000 of W! by the sure- ".C ‘0 b. drappod. Cabin at. 0000 dis-ppm and. no further attempt Retry. hi. «to nude. The aluminum i m m Mucus. on the fronds-were discovered the ballots were the chief evidence .. 1| 2 . ‘k of the oficers who took part in the “accidental. burning” of the testi- mony was James Robertson. No pnniehmen ts have been inflicted All the guilty parties have escaped. In order to aid in the escape the Government appointed a commission- er to enquire into the election. This commission was restricted to an in- vestigation of the acts of deputy re- turning ofiicers. It discovered that there had been irregularities, but found no one guilty. CONFESSION B Y MACHINISTS. Two confessions in addition to that made by Mr. Macnish have been made. One is by John H. Varl, of London. Mr. Varl says in an affidavit that Thomas Lewis, of whom we shall bear again, procured him and seven others to personate voters at St. Thomas. “(sadder- “ I” to diatinguish us. We were to vote for Macnish. _ Drivers were to take us by roundatout ways to the booths. The person pointed out to us as Alexander Turner drove me to two polling booths for the purpose of voting. The payment {or the work was 82 per vote.” Each man received 82 for every fraudulent vote polled. The breast pin in the form of an “I” was the signal to the scrutineers to let the vote through. The other offender who confessed is Pritchett. He was selected to act as a deputy returning officer and to stufi the boxes. He admits that he acted under the name of Marshall B. Johnson, and ” slipped ” nineteen votes. for which he got 325. War- rants having been got out for his ar- rest the Government agent in London Tom Lewis, urged him to leave for Detroit and paid him for it $100 a month, and afterwards $50 a month, during his sojourn on the Other side of the line. “Lewis gave me and the Others tickets with the names of those for whom he wanted us to vote. and also gave us each a pin in the form of an "A [or his services, glso 8100 a month to remain out of the country until the trouble had blown over. None of the offenders were punish- ed. Two men, however, were arrest- ed by private parties. One, Duncan Bole, Government Immigration Ag- ent and Fishery IHSpeCtOI‘ at the Sault, had been summoned to the constituency to act as deputy at poll- ing district No. 4. SODthVVOlIl. The electors whose ballots had been tamp ered with demanded that he be pun- ished. ’l‘hey petitioned the Attorney General at Toronto to secure them redress and to proceed against the offender. The petition remained un- answered. ,,,-, , finaHy Mr. Donahue did consent to lay the request before the Attorney- General. But. in the meantime the ballots had been “ accidentally burn- ed ” in the Parliament. Buildings and We“: viwrefnre out. of reach. Later on the warns-«l (lifiappemed and then it is [helium-9d chm hm bail was never OStl‘eatted. on such evidence. Moreover, it would be improper to request the AttorneyGeneral to forward the documents containing the evidence of 8013's guilt. because the private pro- secutors were " men of Straw,” and the Attorney General had “ to take care lest innocent men be criminally puowcmed on insntlicient grounds.” ‘ - u-.- Meanwhile the lawyers for the plaintifis communicated with the County Crown Attorney. Mr. Dona- hue. informing him of the arrest and urging him to take over the prosecu- tion. Mr. Donahue replied with an objection to the arrest of the aCCIJScd without prior consultation with him. Then a lot of the documents required for the prosecutionâ€"the ballots. poll‘ booksâ€"was served upon the Crown Attorney. with a. request that the Ministers at Toronto. in whose charge they were. produce them. Mr. Don- ahue replied that he could not see how the ofiender could be convicted RESCUED FR“)! THE TUILS IIO‘V THE MEN ESCAPED. a into the'electiou. This was restricted to an in- of the acts of deputy re- acts. I: discovered that been irregulanties, but Mr. Clarke. the Liberal member for West N orthumberland. announced in the Legislature that “ West Elgin had no blacker history than dozens of other constituencies. The ofiend- ,ers in West Elgin happened to be found out; that was all.” This is evidently trite. for passing on to West Huron, the machine is found to have been active there a second time. It was despatched there to secure the electi n of Hon. Mr. Garrow. Minis- ter without portfolio. The election trial took place inJune. 1899, but the enquiry dealt only with the corrup- tion. the practice of this evil being sufficiently prevalent to upset the election. At this trial it was proven that Alex. Smith. J. J. 'l‘hrelkeld. Walter Vanstone. Jas. Vance. " Cap” Sullivan, J. T, Linklater, and a host of other organizers had participated. The constituency had been carefully mapped ofi into divisions, and an or. ganizer with assistants was placed in charge of each district. “ Cap " Sul- livan. who is an official under Hon. E. J. Davis. in the Crown Lands De- partment, went by the name of " Roberts.” His proceedings and those of Linklater formed the chief feature of thejudicial enquiry. Pet- er Deans. jun.. swears that he at- tended Sullivan. alias " Roberts,” at Wingham, and took him to persons whose hames were on a list supplied to him by the head machinists. The persons visited were ofiered bribes to vote for Mr. Garrow, at the rate of $2 per head. Linklater. according to Theophilus Finnan. paid $2, and some times as high as $4 for vates. The seat. was vacated before all the facts came out. Sullivan disappeared and Linklater was paid $100 a month to remain out of reach. In this 'case the machine made the extraordinary claim that its men were not really agents of the candidate and that as “corruption by agents ” alone invalidated an election the election, although secured by bribery, could not be declared void. The court hap- pily declined to take this view of the question. Mr. Jcstice Rose said: " If a candidate does not wish out- side imerference with the manage- ment of the election he must take de- cided action to prevent such interfer- ence. The plain result of holding other- wise will be tliat the candidate. local organization, general committee and sub-committee might all be free from illegal or corrupt practices as far as themselves personally are concerned, and yet the management of the elec- tion by outsiders sent or coming into the riding to expend money and to use improper means for the purpose of promoting the election of the can- didate might be made illegal and cor- rupt and the court would be power- less to interfere. behalf. that. be punished. The machine was introduced; the Corruption Was praCtised ; the funds were supplied and the Government ago-“t had the management and con- trol of we election. It. is unfortun- ate that. the full Story of election crime has never been told. we have found that. in at least one case he made an illegal payment: Of course his eXpPDSBS and those of the persons with him have been paid out. of some fund unless indeed one could believe that. he and his assistants \\ are volunteers paying their own expensesf’ ‘Vhile in \Ves: Huron the respons- ibility fbr the presence of the mach- inism m traced to the Government urgan zer-t something more has been eflec not In North Waterloo. There the crimes were flagrant. Mr. Sim- on Suider. vice-pressdcut of the North Waterloo Reform Associattiou, leasi- tied in court. as (allows :â€" “ Every new scheme for avoiding the consequences of improper conduct. must. be met. by such a construction of the statute as will enforce its pro- visions.” “The bribery cancot be regarded as trifling. ‘ “ The bribes and persons bribed will, as the law requires, be reported, however useless a formality it be.” “That Smith was an agent of the respondent. can. I think. admit of no uestion. .. ”that he brought others into the riding and assumed a management and control which was rec0gnized and submitted to is uerfectly clear and The claim to Special privilege for the machine was thus negatived in this case. The judge knew that nobody would be punished. Then after com menting upon the fact that Mr. Garrow claim- ed to have spent no money illegallly the judge said :â€" “ Assuming this to be so. then it must be that the moneys which were illegally and improperally exdended were supplied by outsiders who sent their agents into the riding and in- terfered with the management. of the election. The court, traced the conspiracy di- rect to headquarters. Mr. JuStice Rose said : " Hon. J. M. Gibson and Hon. EA J. Davis, on the 11th of April, in a meeting at the Woluor House for the purpose of allaymg some local party diflereuces promised in speeches to. send suakers and orggnizersinto the O Wrongzloing in North Waterloo. TRACED TO HEADQUARTERS. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, THURSDAY. MAY 22, 1902. West Huron Frauds. A BRAZEN CHAIN. no offender would ever Shantz acted at No. 2, Berlin, at which Harry Cummings was deputy. There four votes were spoiled. and twenty-one were switched. MINISTER DAVIS INTERFERES. With respect to Cummings. John McDougall, the returning oflicer, tes- tifies that he had dismissed him for an irregularity. but that Hon. E. J. Davis insisted upon nis reinstatement a; deputy. He says: In this contest the machine provid- ed the officers with little bottles of cement with which to fix bits of pen- cil under the thumb nail for ballot spoiling purposes. “ Hon. E. J. Davis asked me why I did this, and further said: ‘ If that, boy were your son, how would you feel if he was put on and then taken off again?’ It was after that I re- appointed Cummings, but not. for that reason.” When the contest opened the " or- ganizers" promised by the Ministers attending in conformity with the pledges given. The candidates were Mr. Lackner (Conservative) and Mr. Breithaupt (Ministerialist.) 'l‘wo courses of procedure were pushed by the machine. One was the manipu- lation of the ballots special experts were introduced. A. R. Shantz teet- ifies that he was poll clerk at No. ‘2, Berlin. He was taken by one Wild- fong to Thomas Lewis, of London, who Was an organizer: He says :â€" " Lewis SM. down and proceeded to! tell me what was to take place. He! said they pioposedcto pay $5 for every: ballor. spoiled or switched. He took i up a piece of paper and put a piece of ' leadlinto hislthnmb and showed mel ho“ to pick the ballot up so that \\ hen seen it was a spoiled ballot. Hel showed me how to smitch ballotsalso and said thev would be. worth the . Same. He said he would not pay for any meie than :20, so that $100 \\ as the limit a. man might make. Wild- fong told me Harry ‘iummings was? in it.” i Shantz proceeded to testify that those men who committed fraud would be protected by the Govern- ment: “ Lewis said we would be protected from troubleâ€" that ‘ they would pro- tect us. I asked Lewis as to what would be done if there was a recount He said we would have too large a majority for a. recount.” This was the second interference by Mr. Davis, in the election. The first was when he promised to send: in organizers. The frauds were} proven to have been widespread. At? the Opening of the court many of the switched ballots were restored and counted. Then the spoiled ballots were inveStigated, and a procession of electors proved that these ballots had been altered after they had mark- ed them. The court reported Cum- mings and Wildfong for fraud. The Government refusod to proceed against these men for two years. At last, forced by public opinion a pros- ecution was Opened and the men who had been reported guilty by the Su- preme Court were found to be not guilty and were let ofi by the Police Court. The promise given by Lewis who offered 35 for case of fraud, that the agents would be “ protected.” was fulfilled. riding to help the Liberals in the coming election.” “ After getting the money I went to New Germany. I had a list. of names for whom I required 825 each. The parties to whom money was paid by me are Barney Scherer, Frank Scherer. George Scherer, JoeLauber, William Brahman, and Andrew Sch- after. wrao has since died. Scherer wens round and got the names of " Lewis.” he added, “ofiered to give us $5 a vote, we could give the v0ters what we liked.” A large numbers of persons tesified to the bribery. Among them was one Al- bert Bossard. Bossard was a hotel- keeper at Berlin, and a member of the Young Liberal Club. Mr. Simon Snider. already mentioned, as an ofli- cer of the Reform Association, swears that Bossard was introduced to him by Mr. Benjamin Dewitt, the license inspector. Then Lewis, one of the organizers, and Vance, another or- ganizer, saw Bossard. Vance asked Bossard if he was acquainted at Weisenberg, to which the reply was in the aflirmative. “ Lewis.” says Bossard. “ asked if I couldn't go over there andlget some Conservatives to v0te Reform. I guessed Icould, and that I wogld go. Iwent over there. Before I went over I saw them again, and told them I did’n know whether I would take much part, 1.3 Ionly had a license for three months instead of the year. They told me not to be afraid, u I would get my licence all right.” Bossard declared that he received $500,erm Le wis, German and Vance. After the election Bossard’s license was extended for the full year. Thus we get an intimntion of the manner in which the licensing machinery is used for corrupt purposes. "I believe your afraid you won’t get the money. We have 820,000 and we have 530,000 more to get, and the meney came from the Government. The money was right on the table in two big bunches. It was paper moneyâ€"$5, $10 and $20â€"80 far as I saw.” Corruption as well as ballot trick- ery was resorted to. Henry Shantz swears that. Lewis engaged him to buy votes at $5 per head. Lewis said to him : WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION. Confined on Page 7. tam Our Shirts are c revelation in newness of designs snd colorings. 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