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And again the protest against A. G. MacKay met a sudden death by dis- solving the House just when things began to get interesting enough to disqualify him. A delay of a day or two would make very little diference and the establishment of innocence by Ilr. MacKay would give him a much better standing in the opinion of his constituents. Few, indeed, can really believe that Mr. Ross is wholly inno- cent, nor yet wholly ignorant of the grave charges that are laid at the feet of his government. The electors should realize that in voting for a Conservative candidate they are voting against machine gov- ernment, of carnival corruption that has over-run this Province during the administration of the present Prem- ier. All Conservatives and a large number of conscientious Liberals will rejoice when the Ross outfit is relegat- ed to shades of opposition, and given an opportunity to think over their misdeeds. To say that Ross or his ministers are not cognizant of the ac- tions of party workers is alame excuse for his retention in office. No person with any sense at all will pretend to believe that the Ross Government is innocent of the methods adopted to keep themselves in power. The way they held office during the last session was enough toshow crook- ness in the Ministerial heads. The investigation into protests was shut of! by calling the House together, and members elected by dishonest methods sat there and voted away the people's money and participated personally in the emoluments of office. Rev D. C. Ilossack, after a series of attacks by the Globe, writes another letter in which he denies the charges of the Government organ. The ab- sence of a spirit of vindictiveness in ‘he two letters already given adds weight to his opinion. However the extreme wing of the Liberal partylmay look upon Mr. Hossack the great bulk of rational Reformers are willing to accept his utterances as a conscien- tious, honest and outspoken denuncia- tion of electoral methods. as practised under the Ross Goverment for the past half dozen years. Mr. Hossack is not the only honest Liberal marked by the Globe as a target on which to belch forth its vituperative spleen. Mr. Hossach is characterized as a digrunt- led and disappointed self-seeker. All the insinuations against his character and political ambitions, he repudiates as false and without foundation. His second letter appears in tall in this bone and those who read the attacks made on this gentleman should be wil- ling to read the defence he puts up for himself. Durham, Jan. 19th, 1905. The case of Donald Sutherland is fresh in the memory of many. He was elected in South Oxford and the Liberal Government were hound to get rid of him at any cost. The evi- dence is far from showing that Prem- ier Boss himself was ignorant of the machine work. A protest was entered but before the trial went on Mr. Suth- lnnd had an ofler of ” a good thing ” if he would turn over.to the Gov- ernment. The ofler was declined and investigation was proceded with. That advances were made was admitted by the “Woodstock Sentinel-Review”, the excuse olered being the Govern- neat thought It. Sutherland was deleted nan Independent. JUST FANCY nice papers at you to-plper rooms if for I: out. Now when the men ha DURHAM CHRONICLE In the investigation George Four- nier swore he had been paid $2 to vote kl- Sutherland, but in cross examina- tion admitted that he had been twice emvicted for assault and lattery, and once for being drunk and disorderly. lobed she been proceeded apinst km. new received 010 or cently said:-“In the Provincial aflairs in Ontario the big question at issue will be the purity of the ballot. elections we must have. ~A verbal deprecat ion of corruption is not sumo- ient for the people. The peOple are losing feith in the politicians o! (htuloendthecryhhemn who We Have Decided U. IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. SANCTUM SIFTIN GS WE KEEP A FULL STOCK OF Window Shades in all Colors To continue 111' _ the month Jan have the r m f which are xpec d MaCFARLAN E 6: CO. DRUGGISTS AND BOOKSELLERS. I 3«: a roll. Why it. v also than to nelp keep more lt-isuro time get thl $12 from one man and $5 or $6 from J. B. Jackson to say he had been bribed. John Keller, who was called to corrobdmte Fournier’s story, ad- mitted that he was once in jail about ten years ago. Elijah Harp swore that Fournier told him they were. trying “to bust the election.” and that he could make $10 by swearing that he had got money for his vote. Harp’s rep‘y was that he did not want money on such terms. E. \V. Chambers tells his story in COHDOCthH with an attempt of J. B. Jackson to procure evidence to un- seat Sutherland. He says, “he (Jack- sun) came to my house about 0:30 and wanted to know what I would take. [told him I would take $5000. He said that was out of the question, but thought $2000 would be a fair thing.” Later he tells that Jackson stated he had a communication from G. W. Ross who laughed at the paying of $2000 for prospective evidence.” Not- withstanding this the extreme Lib- erals will tell us that Ross knew noth- ing of any such negotiations. John Henderson, another Witness, admitted that he put in 18 months in the Central Prison at one time for stealing $100 and two gallons of whiskey, and another time for eight months. The last time was in 1895, but since that he had been in the pol- ice court for disorderly conduct and burglary. Ike \Vright, who was called to con- firm Henderson’s story, admitted that he had been in the Central Prison on one occasion. To this Mr. Blake point- ed out that he had nine convictions against him. which included three sen- tences to the Central Prison. Chm-lens: Parker testified that Four- niex- told him that he could get $10 for swearing that he had been paid for his vote. Owing, no doubt, to the long tenure of office, the Liberal party in Ontario have enjoyed, and the deadening ef- fect consequent thereon, the Ross Administration would seem to have lost all proper sense of responsibility. The Government of our Province through its legislature can only he carried on in any sense satisfactorily by a strict acceptance ofresponsibility. This entails for the member of the legislature, the carrying out of his definite pledges to his constituents.“ It entails for the Govenment an even greater responsibility to fulfil every definite pledge to the country or to any corporation in the conntry.â€"â€"â€"It entails the resignation ot the Govern- ment when it finds itself in the minor- ity.-â€"-Not a new appeal to the Elector- ate. with its own agents in charge of the ballot boxesâ€"It entails the responsibiliey of the Government as a whole, for the actions of each member of the Cabinet, and also, we submit, for all agents of the party, whose acts the Government ratify by using the fruits of their labors. We ask the electors of Ontario, “Has the Ross Government lived up to this standard of responsibility?” Now, in the best interests of the country, this should not be.â€"â€"Canada stands to-day as one of the most demo- cratic peoples on the face of the earth. -â€"â€"-It is therefore of the highest import- ance that we should develop in our people a high sense. firstly of personal responsibility. and secondly of respon- sibility assumed by those placed in a position of trust, or elected to office by the sntfrages of the people, Read what the Ottawa “Free Press” the Liberal Organ at the Capital, re- cently said:â€"“In the Provincial afiairs in Ontario the big question at issue will be the purity of the ballot. Clean elections we must have. A verbal ffi‘fififil‘E AN IRRESPONSIBLE GOVERN- MEN T. y ‘11é1'we simply must pull“ spring shipments about February First. p keep the cold get. them at. it. Does the record of Mr. Ross, as Premier. indicate that he has this sense of personal responsibility, if not ought he to be elected for another term? will act. The man at the head business house is. held respo for the bad goods he delivers, organ- izer and his machine must vanish. His human tools have been found guilty of every unsavory political trick and device known to the knavish mind,- ~- It is no answer for Mr. Ross to say, "‘fl'do not know these men personally,’ §'i§"rlliore than it was an answer for Attorney General Gibson to say at the “800” when warnedof the“Minnie M” “I am not a policeman.” The other day in a. powerful address to the Canadian Club of Toronto. Prin. Gordon .of Queen’s University gave expression to a wish, that in both p0' litical parties. there should be found a greater spirit of individual independ- ence of thought and action. We cannot set the standard of re- sponsible Government too high.â€"â€"Mr. Ross has been tried and found wanting. It is therefore our imperative duty to turn out his government and to de- mand of whatever new Government may be formed the highest possible measure of responsibility. doctor sziid:«-“If asked for a defin expression of Canada’s prevailing evil to-day, I would say that it was elect- oral impurity from which the country suffered most keenly, and it was al- ways a man’s duty to face the evil that was most urgent, I know I am speaking on a delicate subject, and one difficult to handle in a non parti- san spirit. I need not point to eviden- ces regarding the existence of electoral impurity, for Ipresume there is no man present, or any other reasonable man, who can deny that it is largely obtained in Canada.” Amongst other things the learns: i The remedy, the speaker believed, lay in an earnest endeavor to tone up public sentiment; continuing, he said: â€"“Notonly must we endeavor to have the public conscience toned, but it seems to me we would greatly aid the cause of delivering our country from electoral impurity if we had a large number of independent electors on each side. Ido not for one moment advocate the abolition of party gov- ernment, and instance the case of B. Columbia as a strong argument in favor of such government. Neither do I advocate the formation of quite an independent party in Parliament, butI do advocate that they should have an increased number of indepen- dent electors on each side, men who would be willing to say to their party managers that they could not support them, unless the men who directed pr rty affairs were clean, and the measures they submitted, were honest and wise.” At the present moment there are many Liberals honestly asking them selves:~â€""What is the remedy nearest at hand, to put down the prevailing corruption?” The answer seems'un- mistakably clear.â€"â€"Turn out of power those responsible for the corruption, those who have winked at and have failed to put a stop to these iniquities. But some Will reply, “Yes. but is the Conservative party any better.” Our answer is, “Try them. Vote to put Mr. \Vhitney in power.” Editor J. A. Macdmmld Of the Globe told the people of Bowmanvillc on Monday night, probably lest they might think he was an angel sent from heaven, that “he came as an ordinay citizen whose only interest was in the promotion of the well-being of the country." He also said that ‘the poli- tician had yet to dictate to him what line the Globe should take on any question of any sort." There are many who regret that some honest and capable politician did not visit this “ordinary citizen” and tell him effectually what he should do and what he should leave undone. He does not appear to have explained who fright- ened him off the “barnacle” tack, and it is sad that someone in the audience did not ask him if he was the man who would “look the blackest page in the history of the Government in the face and still stand by Premier Ross,” while he was stoutly declaring before the Bowmanville audience, that “if he believed the Government to be as corrupt as the Opposition said it was, he, because he was a Liberal, would be the first, to declare against it.” The spirits of these two declarations aretoowldely opposedtodocredit to' them, either ae-a person or an In the. ranks of the Opposition there are plenty of men of the highest abili- ty and integrity, ready to take up the reins of government. If, after a term of years, Mr. \Vhit- ney and his cabinet do not fulfil all expectations, such indepent Liberals can then return to their own party affiliations with a firm conscience that at all events they sincerely did what in their conscience seemed the best for their country in a crisis, the result of electoral impurity, ELECTORAL IMPURITY. WHEN YOU WANT SOmething Better Than You Hsve Been Using, try the Fits Like a Glove. Comfortable as a Waist. P mps ! Pumps! PU PS THAT PUMP â€"10 Black Velvet Hats. â€"7 Ladies’ Bonnets. 'â€"Navy Blue Velvet with Fur. â€"-Brown Plush with Mink. --Red Plush Hat. â€"Green Plush. â€"Cnstor and Pale Blue Panne Velvet. Custom work and Repairing done at the Down Town Shoe Store. January and February DUB W000 UR IRON PUMPS MADE FROM BEST MATERIALS. J. S. Mcllraith 4 Pairs Misses, sizes 1 and 2. at $1.00 â€"Prices right.â€" Orders may be1eft at either John Kinnee’s shop one door north of Stinson’s bakery, or at my shop near the Cement Works. Nov. 15t11.-3m. NEW PUMPS AND REPAIRS. WELL DRILLING, RE-Cunmxa AND Pnnsscnanma done with Cement concrete. MID-WINTER l'lillinery Wz Hank ALL WORK GUARANTEED at. “Live and let. live” PRICES. Pumps. H ‘- 1‘0MERS and the public in general that I am prepared to furnish "' near McGowan’a Mill will be V 7' ""â€" tended to. Pmmptly at C ° ALI: ORDERS-”tiakegap the old gtan- If you\want a pump that will give good satisfaction wnthout tinkering at it every day or two, try one of We supp_ly all kinds and make a nh_â€" _-- -‘-\.-n-‘I We supp all kinds and make a SPECIADLTY 0F REPAIRING. C. McArthur BEG LEAVE TO INFORM MY CUS- Stand-By ’ ' CORSET. This Corset has Hose Supporters attached, has double Steels in the sides which conform to every movement of the body, and thus prevents the corsets breaking down on the sides. This corset possesses Style and Durability and is the Latest and Best Corset invented, and is sold at the price of ordi- nary corsets. Also some sizes in a ladies strap slipper to make room for spring goods arriVing shortly. A few pairs of Misses and Boys lined Bals left, and will sell them at the following reduced prices mourning. MISS DICK All these hats are selling at. lowest figure possible. We have a good assortment of BLACK HATS suitable for E still have 9. number of trimmed hats in Felt and Velvet. and in order to get rid of them during “’0 are marking them away down. We have Boys’ E. H. KINNEE uBlock. -- Dun-hum, Ont.| GEORGE WHITMORE. DURHAM, ONT. 4, at Owen Sound and Durham Owen Sound. Dec. 14thâ€"2m. U Marchâ€"good brick houseâ€"in desir- able locality. For particulars apply to Jan. l5â€"‘2mc. WANTED 50,000 E‘If'lflsafi AT EATON BROS. BREWERY N OR ABOUT THE 15TH OF Season’s. Greetings We are making all our Felt Footwear and are using superior felt of a strength that -will out-wear any felt shoe made. We are not ask- ing a cent more for them, and our winning prices are calling great attention and demand. You can form some idea from the following list: The very best we know of is here, and buy- ing here is a. positive proof of their worthiness. Men’s handomade felt slippers. leather binding, the very best for any money, for .................... [-00 Men’s band-made felt geiters, easy fit. With rubbers or overehoes, for ................................ [050 Men’s hand made calf laced shoes. felt lined and a wearer forever, for ............................. 2000 Women’s band made. all felt, slippers turned soles, 6 the very best for the money ..................... 5C Child’s hand~made felt shoes, which will protect your feet from the frost. .............................. \Vomen’s handmade felt gaiters, the .very quality, in black or red ..................... Misses’ all felt slippers. turned soles. the very quality for the money ............... . ...... Misses’ felt shoes. for in or out doors. the most fortsble shoe made for cold weather ......... V. I1. BEAN, The Big 4 CENTS per bushel for N O. I will be paid at the Brewery. House to Rent. d and Durham. STRICTLY CASH SYSTEM. Orders and Repairing promptly done. Wishing ali our customers A Merry Christmas mid A Happy New Year, and hoping for an increase of trade, we are Yours for business. PEEL, the Shoeman Hand Made FELT FOOTWEAR ED. WALSH, or enquire at this office. 5 Elliott Mclachlan ; I ' PRINCIPALS. os~msm‘§‘ ammm-so STRATFORD. ONTARIO . Young men, young woman. there is abundant room for you in the higher and more respons- ible positions of life. You are needed. Get n business or ehorthend treining and march upwards. Enter our Svhool this month if possible. Famous School com- best best [.25 40c 75C 60C In order to reduce our sm. Felt Boots, Heavy R 1 Con. Robe. large sizs, v l‘lltu'l Imitation Ltmb . All “en's Suits that “'9“- 3t oquclly low prices 1‘ [00% Hean' Frieze C0 Ldies' Furs. new goods. The undfil‘s authorized ‘t 110‘) ill. Farm Stock and lmph Friday, Jan. 1 more. 7 years old; I no old; 1 colt. 1 year old: I coming‘l years old; 2 rm to be in calf; I cows; wi foot; 3 spring nrlves; l 5 Old; 1 [at cow; ] lu-if years old; 14 steers, ri old; 1 one-yeur-old Shc 2 Shorthorn bulls, 1.x 9 pigs, 4 months old; 1 in pig; 3 Oxford Down greed in lamb; 1 trucl long sleigh; 1 gang pk riding plow, new; 1 w 1 boy louder; 1 bay rmzli hotness, good; 1 set p whimetreoo and nvckyo Everything must be PrOprimor has reme SALE AT ONE O’CL()( All sums of $5.00 and over that amount 12 u will be given on furnis 30in! notes. ti per cent be allowed for cash in Wat your moustache or ammmVnon-naw Very" Proud Btitish National Stock Foo « clearin Auction Sale H. LIVINGSTON, Pr R BRIGHAM, Aucti ow. new; 1 walking p11 10:; 1 [my rank; 1 set be! good; 1 set plow harm OI und nockyokes; I 0x0 Cream Sepuntor. 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