THE DAILY EXAMINER, eae

THE CANDIDATES TO VOTE FOR.

KING'S COUNTY, 4. C. McDonald. E. B. Muttart, M.D.

QUEEN'S COUNTY, Donald Ferguson. William Campbell.

PRINCE COUNTY, Edward Hackett. John Lefurgey.

THE DAILY EXAMINER.

JANUARY

29, 1887.

Governmental Changes.

We are permitted to announce to dlay

that the Hon. George W. Bentley has been appointed Commissioner of Public Works for this Province, vice Mr. William Camp

2) | . 1 bell. whose resignation has been in the for some time

Nicholson

(Crovernment Hon.

has been prom ited to a seat in the Execu-

hands of the

past, and that the James

tive Council

" e 4} 5 1] : The news of these appointments Wilil, We

have no doubt. be received with satisfac-

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| tion by men of both parties and all

; cCiasses

of this community; for both gentlemen }

;

enjoy a very large measure of respect and

conhidence

Bui tothe Patriot this news will be

rather discomfit ing

_—— 2-7 -/- -+ o—-- Nailed !

In its report of the Grit meeting held at Summerside on the evening of Wednesday

wt, the Pat published the following stateinent

“Hackett

The facts are that

declined to attend.”

Messrs. Hackett and

Lefurgey returned to Summerside on pul

ind Lefurgey

pose to be present to meet

their opponents

in fair and manly debate. But in conse-

quence of an intimation from the President

of the Liberal Association that the meeting

was to be one-sided tl ey stayed away. The

iollowing correspondence explains the

matter ; SUMMERSIDE, Jan. 26, 1887. Joun GAPFNEY, Esg., Chairman Lib, Convention. Dear Sir,~lam directed to inquire whether tne political meeting advertised for this evening here is intended to be a public meeting, and whether candidates of both parties will be ex- pected to speak f Yours traly, H. J. MASSEY, Sec’y Lib.-Con. Committee. LIBERAL COMMITTEE Rooms, Summerside, Jan. 26th, 1887. intestine . . HUGH MASssEY, Esq., Secretary Liberal-C onserva- tive A SSOCIAIION. Dear Sir,--The meeting advertised for to-nigbt is & party meeting for the purpose of hearing the

candidates of the Liberal Party on the political situation. I he Conservative Party candidates Wish to make arrangements with Messrs. Yeo

and Perry r holding subsequent meetings in Summerside and the County, these gentlemen are ready and willing toenter intoany arrange ments that inay be mutually agreed to, Yours traly, JOUN GAFFNEY, President Lib.-Con. Association, Prince County Per ous who will ce lil

rately state that

which 18 not true concerring a matter of small importance, will not seruple to mis. i a :

ead the peo on questions of great pouti

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A Pitiabie

Policy. 1

+ COMMENTING upon the attempt of the Op-

position leaders to prevent the fulfilment

of the bargain with British Columbia, a

writer on the subject of the C. P. R. Says :

**Most prt ible perh ips of all was the com- bined action of Blake and Mackenzie in the session of 1880, when they divided their labor of party hatred: Blake spending two days, 15th and 16th ef April, in attempting to show that nobody would go into the country; that the Germans settled in the United States, and that the Irishman, hostile to Britain.

avoided a country under her flag,or if by chance any should go in they would be too poor to pay anything into the treasury; and Mr. Mac- kenzie, in completion of his part of the agree

ment, as stated by Blake, see page 1.454 De- bates of 1880, liboring with painful assiduity to show that the land was barren and the country not worth going into. These mis- directed and unpatriotic efforts against oppo- nents and country stand in miserable and melancholy contrast to the broad, statesman- like and patriotic course of Sir John and his

party, that to-day he has the proud satisfac- tion of having triumphed over this blind oppo- sition, and of seeing the iron horse speeding to

and fro over this great country from the At- lantic to the Pacific, and of knowing that thousands and tens of thousands of men are finding employment in forwarding the pro- ducts cf farm and factory and in managing the { and its tributaries; other thousands in rine, arid in the foundries and work

he ling the supplies

juired in this collosal enterprise, whilst

the farmer feeds and the manufacturer clothes

untry, pr vik

‘and humbug the

} 1 | pave

an assembled P«rliament.

_-_— om «+ ee — ne ce

W = Ve have not yet clearly grasped the

meaning of the word boodler: but if it

means a member of Parliament who looks

after the *‘ swag,” Mr; L. H. Davies is the! biggest beodler in the country.

_ Tie Railway men’s Sunday afternoon meet- ing which meets tan J. D. MeLeod’s Hall Hall Will be open to Railway men’s families and friends tozmorrow evening from 4 till 5

Sclock. Uonsvlidated hymnal usttl,

EE WO

Mr. Davies and the Railway Men.

Ir is but natural to conclude that men who (like Messrs. Ferguson and Campbell) have sprung from the ranks of working- men. have greater sympathy withthe wrongs of workingmen, and would try harder te remedy their grievances,than one who (ike Mr. L. H. Davies) never soiled his hands by a day's labor and knows nothing what- the workingman’s feelings and re- It is evident that Mr. L. H.

ever of quirements.

Davies is shrewd enough to see that this 1s

So. He knows, too, right well, the ae

value of the railway vote. There

jore he is making a desperate to cajole

railway men. Flysheets

‘containing reports of what he said in Parlia-

4 ment about the pay of the railway men, doubt

worksh« ps

been by his order, ho ibout the

: “es 2 “thick as leaves in Vallambrosa.

ecattered railway

It must,

first thought, strike the railway men

~

that there are better ways of gaining for

them an increase of wages—that’s the bait than by prating about the matter before An hour's quiet Minister of

talk and argument with the

Railways would do (for obvious reasous) more to gain for the railway men fair play in the important

matter of wages, than dozens of Mr. Davies’ Parliament ; and no

than Mr.

lamentations in one is better aware of this fact Davies himself.

What, after all, is the gist of Mr. Davies’

}

contention ? It is contained in the follow-

} r wor ° Ing wt rds

‘*Mr. Davies.—I do not wish the hon. Min- ister to impression that I contend that the same salary should be paid to the Superintendent of the Island Railway as that which we pay the Superintendent of the In- tercolonial Railway. I advanced no such proposition. I understand quite well that the luties an ] vesponsibilities of those two gentle- men are very different ; that the duties of tl

have the

he one are much more onerous and arduous than that of the other and demand a greater salary, but the proposition I do advance is this, that as regards the labor of men whose work is to a lary extent merely mechanical, who are hired hy the day to do a certain amount of work, it is preposterous to assert that they should be paid $2 per day in Moncton and only $1 a day in Charlottetown.”

That is to say, Mr. Davies does not pro pose that the salaries of the officials of the

P. EB. Island Railway

but that the laboring men shall receive the

shall be increased, same pay as laboring men on the Intercolo- Well, that is

Therefore there is nething what-

nial. what they now receive. ever in Mr. Davies’ contention, and nothing to be gained by his advocacy.

The Patriot, ‘*a deliberate falsehood ” THe EXAMINER'S ** the them are just as high during the time they

we note, characterizes as

statement that wages of most of are employed as the wages of employes of the Intercolonial Railroad.”

We challenge the Patriot to that is not absolutely crue. If

prove this statement it be not absolutely true,we have been mis- informed.

That there are cases of grievence among the men working on the railway we freely admit. We have repeatedly called attention to such grievances—sometimes with success and sometimes without success, —the state- mentofthe Patriotthat

never yet stood up for the railway men,” to

‘* Tae ExAMINER has

the contrary notwithstanding. But apart from all this, it will, we think, that Messrs more likely to promote the than

be admitted Ferguson and Campbell are speci il interests of our railway men

er. oe

heretofore been

Davies. Mr. Ferguson has

pretty succussful in his

ultempts to obtain justice for the Province

and its people, and we have no doubt that he will be equally successful, when elected & member of Parliament, in conjunction with Mr. Campbell, and invested with the

powers and privileges of a representative of

the people supporting the Government.

The Winter Service.

fue winter steamers have done

service ; but now the ice is

good becoming to be too heavy for them. They are beginning to be irregular in their trips ; and the mails are in future to be sent by way of the Capes.

The experiment with a sealing steamer has ,now been tried ; and we hope that the Govern-

lesson will not be lost upon the

ment. The opinions of the Captains on

board and of other practical men who have observed the operations of the steamer should be obtained with a’ view to fur- ther improvements.

A gentleman of large experience, says in a private letter to a friend—after crossing in the Neptune :

“I am satisfied, from what | saw yesterday, that a steamer like the Neptune—only possessing four times the power—-would cross almost every day in winter with comparative safety and certainty.”

And a correspondent of THe Examiner writes :

“We left Georgetown on Tuesday morning last, at 7 o'clock, in the good ship Neptune, a strong west wind blowing and snow falling qu.te thick and fast. The prospect looked bad, indeed, for getting over on that day, and some of the passenges were hard to be pre- vailed on by their triends from going on shore to waita more desirable opportunity. We had not gone far until we met with consider- able loose and floating ice of greater or less thickness, which the Neptune seemed to pass over or shove aside with but little trouble. At abou 9 o'clock, the weather becoming

| quite thick by the falling of snow, we had to

lay to for some time. On starting again we met

' several fields of ice ranging from 9 to 15 inches

in thickness, which the old ‘Swoiler’ cracked . On ea er .

aud forced her way through for long distances, seeming only to lack more powerful engines to

make her a first-glass boat for such service, |

She worked through it; however, nbubly.

After getting into open water we encountered quite a chopping sea, but the Neptune caused her passengers no uneasiness In the way of seasickness Whatever, steaming stiffly through itas in still water, landing in safety at Pictou about 2.30 p.m. We met the Northern Light on her way to Georgetown, and I was sur- prised to find that no yvreetings passed be tween the two vessels. This is a nautical courtesy i have never before seen omitted between steamers, for what reason on this oc- easion I did not enquire. i hope there is no worse feeling between the two boats than a generous and pleasant one of rivalry, stimu- lated by the great desire to see which can carry mails the more regularly and passengers the more comfortably and safely. My fellow passengers all speak in the highest terms of Capt. Barry and his subordinates; and I have much pleasure in adding that, in my travels, nowhere have I found a more considerate or gentlemanly Commander. The amongst 1,;,whom would particularly mention the obliging purser, Mr. Lochead, vied with each other in making the passage as comfort- able as possible.”

[t is important that practical informa- tion should be obtained as to what is neces- sary in a steamer to enable her to cope as successfully as possible with the ice of our bays and straits. The want of a steamer to do this is greatly felt both at Charlotte- town and Summerside.

“THE CAMPAIGN. |

Messrs. Ferguson and Campbell returned from Belfast last night. They are in high spirits. Their reception by the good peo- ple of Belfast was all they could desire. It was cordial and hearty.

ORGANIZATION MEETINGS.

On the 19th inst., a large and influential meeting of the electors of Wood Island and vicinity, was held in Duncan Crawford's After the political questions of the day had been discussed, a branch of the Liberal-Conservative Association was formed with the following officers: —President, Robt. T. Dixon; Vice President, Maleolm N. MeMilian; Secretary, D. Treasurer, Alex. McKachern. resolved that the Association

store.

meet on

Wednesday of each week. After three cheers had been given for the Liberal-

Conservative Party and Sir John, the meet- ing adjourned.

A branch of the Association of Queen’s Connty was formed at Crapaud on the 25th imst., with the

following ofticers:—President, Bradford D. |

Howatt; Vice President, Janies Johnsen; Secretary-Treasurer, O. B. executive committee of seven was appointed, and Wednesday night of each meek was ap- pointed as the night of meeting. After some appropriate speeches by those present, the meeting adjourned,

of Cavendish enthusiastic

The ‘electors vicinity held an

the purpose of organization, on the evening '

of the 25th inst., when the following — offi- were duly appointed :— President,

James Buotte; Secretary, Peter Dorion. <A canvassing committee of seven was also appointed, and Monday night determined upon as the night of meeting.

At a large and influential meetinggp? the electors of Collett’s Mills Polling Division, held on the 26th imst , a branch of the Liberal-Conservative Association was form- ed and the following officers appointed :— President, A Collett; Vice-President, James Newsom,Secretary-Treasurer,John Bradley. A committee of seven was also appionted and Tuesday night appointed as the night of meeting.

LARGE MEETING AT SUMMERSIDE.

cers

Capt.

A correspondent at Summerside writes : One of the largest meetings of the cam- paign was held last night in Ludlow Hall.

Mr, Lerurcey was the first speaker. He dealt with the questions at issue in a plain straightforward way and was well re- cei\ ed.

Mr. Yeo then made a little speech with very little in it.

Mr. Hackerr spoke for one hour and a half, and made a brilliant defence of his parliamentary career. His speech was one of the best ever delivered in the Hall. To- day it is admitted even by his opponents to have been a masterly effort, While he was speaking a copy of’ the Patriot of the 27th was handed to him containing an untruthful report of the Grit meeting which washeld here on Wednesday evening. Amongst other

things it stated that Messrs. Lefurgey and | opponents. |

Hackett declined to meet their rhe correspondence on that subject was

then read, which showed that Mr. Massey, | the Secretary of the Liberal-Conservative |

Association had witten during the day to Mr. Gaffney, the Chairman of the Liberal Convention, on that subject, who replied that the meeting was to be a party one, and intimating plainly that the Conserva- tive candidaties were not wanted.

The prompt nailing of this lie had a good effect, and went to show what little reliance is to be placed in Grit speeches, and their newspaper reports.

The meeting of last night was called on account of our candidates being refused a hearing at the Grit meeting. Many of their former supporters are disgusted with their tactics and will not vote as hitherto.

Messrs Hackett and Lefurgey will hold a public meeting at Kensington to-night, te which the Opposition candidatéS “ire in- vited. Messrs Hackett and Lefurgey are meeting with splendid encouragement and are confident of success. Electors have had the idea that Mr. Yeo could not be de- feated, but when they are shown the very small majorities that he has had, varying from thirty to sixty votes, they see that a very little extra effort on the part of the Conservatives may retire. him from par- liamentary duties. Mr. Perry and his friends know there is no chance for his election.”

Somebody who has been examining the records says that 1887 is the fiftieth anni- versary of the following :—President Van Buren takes office, March 4; Victoria be- comes Queen, June 20; Evans storms trun, May 17; Espareto takes Hernani, May 15; Carlist deteat at Valencia, July 15; Impe- rial Parliament dissolved, July 17; Cholera in Europe, July-August; Carlist victory at Herrera, Aug. 24; Saldanha and Terrera defeated, September 18; French Chamber of Deputies. dissolved, October 4; French storm Constantina, October 13; Persians besiege Herat, November 22; Winter Pal- ace at St. Petersburg burned, December 29; Father Matthew's temperance mission began ; publication of Pickwick’s Papers and of Carlyle’s French Revolution.

The Czar and Custina are ing for

ar ip 8 tour Uf Burbpe in the spritry. ee

officers, |

Crawford; | It was then |

Liberal-Conservative

Wadman. An

Road and; meeting for

~~ SATURDAY.

The Winter Passaze.

INTERESTING TRIP ACROSS THE STRAIT.

A passenger who crossed froin Pictou to Georgetown in the Northern Light yester- day, tells an interesting story of the trip of that steamer and the Neptune. He says: Both steamers left Pictou about a quarter to seven inthe morning, The Northern Light had a slight lead, but was overtaken ant passed by the Neptune before she had got outside the harbor. When the Nep- tune got outside she met some good leads of water. Fora time she had smooth sailing, but finally got into a heavy ice jam, which carried her around the western end of Pic- tou Island, and it was not until the turn of the tide, some three or four hours later, that she was released from her bondage and made her way to Georgetown, The Northern Light was not so fortunate as the Neptune in getting the leads of water. | She kept more to the southward, doing ex- ‘eellent work among the ice, breaking

through ‘‘cakes” from twelve to eighteen inches in thickness. She, however, got caught inan unusually heavy jam which held her fast. After about an hour’s hard work during which jack-screws were used ‘to raise her up, she was released, and pro- ‘ceeded to again wrestle with the ice, which was there in abundance and of various de- grees of thickness. After butting about for some time the steamer at last worked her way to the eastern end of Pictou Island, when, with the turn ‘of the tide and the increasing southwest | wind, the ice opened up and the steamer was enabled to make her way through with | comparative ease, arriving off Georgetown harbor about a quarter to seven in the evening. The ice in the harbor was from six to eight inches in thickness, and it was almost eight o'clock before the steamer reached the wharf. Our informant thinks ‘the Northern Light is the best boat in heavy hummvuck ice, but the Neptune is snperior in thin field ice. Even had the Neptune the same power as the Northern Light, he thinks she could not do as good work, as she is too long and wide.

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