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GEO. WASTIE DeBLOIS, Esq. Hon. NEIL McLEBOD,

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Davies and asked if he could still continue | manties to the Government. supplies to the Departments. ; )\st where the iniquity comes In. He tells us that Mr. Davies /the fishy a

(to sell * | (Laughter. )

‘said he could not ; and that, consequently, the Government were | t! : closed, and he did not supply one dollar's | Yarmouth, N. 8. ! Tt is pos- sible that Mr. Davies may have given him

this accounts with

’ é worth of goods from that time. this advice ; but, if so, he listened to other

own heart.

with this difference :

MARCH 27, 1879.

GREAT MEETING.

Market Tall Packed,

Jobbery Proved!

Ineontrovertible Evidence. GREAT SENSATION if

Speeches by Hon Messrs. Ferguson and Sullivan,

_—

Mr. J. W. Fraser took the Chair at 8 o'clock. Stirring speeches were delivered by Messrs. G. W. Millner, Hon. D. Fer- guson, Hon. W. W. Sullivan, Mr. John P. Tanton, Mr. Geo. W. DeBlois, Hon. Neil McLeod, Mr. H. B. Smith, and Mr. Alexander McKinnon. Onur space is so fully occupied to-day, that we have only space fer a report of the speeches of those who were particularly attacked by Messrs. Dodd and Davies, viz.: Hon. Messrs, Ferguson and Sullivan.

HON. MR. FERGUSON’S SPEECH.

Hon. D. Fercuson was received with ap- plause. He said: Since I last had the pleasure of addressing a Charlottetown au- dience I attended three meetings, viz., at New Glasgow, Saw Mill Bridge and Bon- shaw. At every one of these I found the

UTMvST ENTHUSIASM

prevailing in the interests of the Liberal. Conservative Party; and I believe the party never was so flourishing or streng in this Province as it is at the present mo- ment. (Applause.) On last evening week I attended a meeting in this hall. I then felt it my duty to point out certain acts

OF JOBBERY AND CORRUPTION

on the part of the members of the late Ad- ministration. An evening or two after- wards the members of the iate Government found it necessary to call a meeting in this place for the purpose of refuting what they called the false charges which we had made against them. How did they meet those charges? By bald, bare denials, inter- spersed with personal abuse. That

SPOILT CHILD OF FORTUNE

—Mr. Davies—taunted me with being ob- liged to go to Cardigan fora constituency. But how did he come to the surface him- self? Born with a silver spoon in bis mouth (laughter) and not too much brains in his head, he had an uncle who had some business connections at Murray Harbor; and he took master Louis under his arm and got him a seat for that constituency. One dose of him proved quite sufficient for the good people of Murray Harbor. (Laughter.) The Hon. Mr. DeBlois and the Conservatives of Charlottetown took him in charge at the last general election. But they now find that they have been nursing a viper who has turned around to sting them. (Cheers.) But the

MAN MOST DEEPLY IMPLICATED

in the charges made by Mr. Sullivan and myself, was even inore supercilious in his manner of mecting our grave accusations. Why should this gentleman treat public questions in the jaunty manner he does? The Couservatives of Charlottetown ask Mr. DeBlois to come forward again. Mr. Dedd tells us Mr. DeBlois is a ‘‘ blood- sucker.” (Sensation.) Mr. McLeod is ur- gently requested to come forward as a re- resentative for this City. Mr. Dodd says [ is “‘a mushroom”! (Sensation.) In discharge of my duty to the public, 1 charge the Hon. Thomas Walker Dodd with jobbery asa public man. He replies by saying, ‘‘ You are unsound on the School Question” ! (Laughter and applause.)

THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGES

which have ever been preferred against a public man in this country, have been pre- ferred against Mr. Dodd; and his answer is now before the public. I charged him with thrusting his arm to the arm-pits into the public treasury in payment of centracts made with the late Government in contra- vention of the laws of the land. He re- plies that it is impossible for him to be g tilty—as $300 is the largest amount allew- ed by law to remain in the Treasury at one time.

@ime a member of the Government.

His heart was so set upon the god of this world that, rot satisfied with his office of and Treasurer—with

Provincial its salary of $1,600 a year—he went to Mr.

Does he expect to deceive any one by such rubbish as this? Every body knows t yat his cheque as Provincial Secretary and Treasurer could exhaust every cent to the credit of the Government in any of tlie banks. (Cheers.) He tells us that he sold the Government no supplies after he be-

CERTIFIED COPIES

No. 196.) DEPARTMENT oF PuBLic Works.

Date—Oct. 11, 1878. Ordered from Dopp & RocERs, The following : 14 doz. Towels, 4 Coal Scuttles, 1 box Soap, 3 Dusters, 2 gal. K. Oil, 3 Corn Brooms, Pro, Building. (Copy of Dodd & Rogers’ -account for these and other articles. ) Jno. Wma. Morrison, Secretary of Public Works.

For Province BUILDING. Government of P. E. Island To Dodd & Rogers.

Aug, 31. —To 18 Towels, at 22c....... $ 3 90 To 3 Corn Brooms, at 40c... 1 20 To 4 Coal Scuttles, at $1.25. 5 00

To lL box Soap. s........+% 4 85

To 3 large Feather Dusters, Be OO Wisk we 084-40? +2 12 00 To 2 gals. Kerosene, at 40c.. 80 ‘To 1 doz. Lamp Chimneys.. 1 20 To 2 panes Glass, at 5c..... 10 a cask bss ord pees ve 6 Sept. 7.—'To 5 Coal Shovels, at 20c... 1 00 To 3 Key Rings, 4, 3, 1-10.. 22 To 1 pane Glass and Putty. . 16 To 1 Stove Back........... 1 75 Te lipkes. Taehe: ...2 05>. 10 $32 40

W D.S. Should be certified by the Keeper as received. F. W. H. No. 8-100.

Ree’d payment Janu. 11, 1879, Dopp & RoGErs.

Ch’town. P, E. I.,

Dec. 26, ’78.

The above is a true copy of an account fyled in this Office, which I certify. JNo. Wm. Morrison, Secretary of Public Works. What will the people think of a Govern- ment who would be guilty of jobbery and fraud of this kind ? (Sensation and cheers. ) But there are also accounts in the depart- meent—the dates of which are genuine— which convict the Hon. Thomas Jobber Dodd of selling supplies to the Government, while he was a member of it. In proof of this, I submit an account which may be ex- amined by any gentleman in the room :—

FOR SOURIS COURT HOUSE.

Government of P. E. Island To Dodd & Rogers, Dr.

Zo 1 large Hall Stove... ..... «9008.05 $18 00 ee. DR UUR . Keck cc cst a peee ch 18 00 To 2 Coal Scuttles at $1.50............ 3 00 Bad & Meee OS BOO seek izs + Hee G04 > 0 50 By I OO Ns ov o'g do's kv 0 ¥0 bone 0 40

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To 2 Brushes and Combs.............. 2 00

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344 20 W. D.S. F. W. H. No. 101. Received payment, Dopp & Rogers.

Charlottetown, P. E. L,

Dec. 26, 1878. The above is a true copy of an account fyled in this office, which I certify.

Jno. Wa. Morrison, Secretary of Public Works.

THERE IS ONE FEATURE

in connection with the Hon. Thomas Jobber Dodd’s accounts against the Government : that they have been paid by the Commis- sioner without having been certified by any- one. When the chairman of their meeting —Mr. Archibald Kennedy—or their politi- cal mechanics—James Barrett. and J. W. Pickard— present their little accounts to the Government, they are obliged to have them certified by the proper officer receiving them. These men, I suppose, could not be trusted. (Laughter.) But when Dodd & Rogers and the clapper general—(laughter) —(Mr. John Whear) presented their ac- counts, no questions were asked, no certifi- cates were required—the money was furked over. (Applause.) From the formation of the Davies Government up to the 4th day of March last, the firm of Dodd & Rogers have received, through the Public Works Department alone, the sum of four thou- sand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents ($4,239.80)—every cent of which has been paid to them in

DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE LAWS.

Yet this man—this Hon. Thomas Walker Jobber Dodd—had the effrontery to speak of some of the most estimable and honor- able men in this community as ‘ blood- suckers” and ‘‘ mushrooms” (applause.) This sum is exclusive of the sum of seven hundred and seventy-four dolars ($774.00), the amount paid for register grates and marble mantles. Mr. Thomas Jobber Dodd says he sold no register grates or inarble

counsels or to the evil suggestions of his The accounts with the Govern- ment did not close, but went on as usual— that while the sup- plies were given when they were required, the accounts were dated back to a time when Mr. Dodd was not a member of the Government (sensation.) 1 make this state- ment deliberately and emphatically; and * ———"—= | 4m prepared to prove it (sensation.) I have THE Dairy EXAMINER. |” b4 ee a oe — lof accounts against the Department of Pub- lic Works from this firm of Dodd & Rogers, in which the dates given for the delivery of the goods are false dates (sensation.) This is proved by the counterfoils of the requisi- tions in the Department, certified copies of which I also have in my hand, and one of which, as well as the account for the same goods, I submit for the information of the

the. name of Burrell-Johnson [ron Co., of

Did they even im

facture those grates !

the Government, and made a profit for themselves out of the transaction. (Sensa- tion.) They were either scape-goats for Dodd & Rogers. Why were not tenders called for those grates last antumn, when the glass, etc., was con- tracted for, in order that all the hardware men in the place might enter Inwa fair and honorable co.npetition? This was the proper course to have pursued. But, since they did not obtain them in this way, why was there not a requisition given, so that a record of the bargain could be found in the Public Works Department? But there 1s no record in the Department of anything except the payment of the money. (Ap- plause.) And why was this money paid without a certificate frem the architects— whom no one thinks of blaming in

ing :— the matter—that the proper num- meeting : :

. . weas ae ber were delivered and that they

| (Copy of Counterfoil. Requisition Note, were worth the money? And what is worse

than all, why was the payment made in such hot, indecent haste, when the crack of doom was ringing in the ears of the Gov- ernment of which the Hon. Thomas Jobber Dodd was a member? Mr. Davies boasted the other evening, that they had left no payments to be made by their successors. This is just what the country 18 suspl- cious of. I unhesitatingly and emphatieally say that there were payments made to their friends in the last hours of that Govern- ment which, in commen decency, should not havebeenmade. (Cheers and applause. ) The account of Dodd & Rogers for marble mantles and register grates is an illustra- tion of this. If these accounts were jusi ones, and such as would bear the light of day. why were they paid after the Govern- ment had been defeated in the Honse of Assembly, and (some of them) even after their resignations had been tendered ! (Sensation anc applause.)

Henry Lonewortu, Esy.—What about the marble mantles ?

Hon. Mr. Frrcvson—Why just this. Only wooden mantles were required by the specification, which the centractors had to provide. Expensive marble mantles were submitted at a cost of $40 each without any recommendation to that effect from the architects. They were bought and paid for in the same slippery way as the register grates. Withafull sense of the respon- sibility I incur, { emphatically and deliber- ately repeat my charges made at the pre

vious meeting in this Hall; and I will leave it to the intelligent electors of Charlette- town to decide whether or not the proofs which I have now given are satisfactory.

The accounts I submit I have taken indis- criminately from the numerous documents of the same kind in my possession. (Pro- longed applause.)

HON. MR. SULLIVAN’S SPEECH.

Hon. Mr. SvuLiivan was greeted with applause. -He said he felt called upon to satisfy the electors of Charlottetown that the statements he made at the Liberal- Conservative meeting, held here last week,

WERE CORRECT,

notwithstanding their denial by Messrs. Dodd and Davies. He unfolded the Pat- riot Extra of Friday last, containing a re- port of the speeches of Messrs. Dodd and Davies, as delivered by them in the Market Hall — headed, ‘‘ Slanders Nailed,” ‘* Com- plete refutation of false charges against the late Administration,” ete., etc. In order to have a right understanding of the posi- tion of the case, it would be necessary to

AGAIN STATE THE CHARGES.

He wished to remind the electors that those charges were called forth by the remarks of Mr. Davies at a meeting which previvusly took place, and at which Mr. Davies made the following statement, with reference to the cost of the forthcoming elections :—

‘*T tell you, sir, that before these elec- tions are over, they will be found to have cost nearer six thousand than five thousand dollars of the money of the people of this

| Island.”

Again, Mr. Davies charged the present Government with improperly paying the members and servants of the House for their attendance and service during the late session. In reply to those assertions of Mr Davies,he(Hon. Mr. Sullivan)stated that the elections would cost nothing at all like either $5,000 or $6,000--that the General Election of 1876 cost about $1,109; and that there was no reason why the coming election should cost much more than that sum—even taking into consideration the vote by ballot. He (Hon. Mr. 8.) had also stated that Mr. Davies’ Government had, since the first of January last, paid up- wards of $70,000 without a vote of Parlia- ment. He further stated on that occasion that the Hon. Thomas Walker Dodd, late Provincial Secretary and Treasurer, had drawn from the Public Treasury thousands of dollars contrary to the Independence

e: Parliament Act. Hon. Mr. Sul- livan said that he was here ‘now, not. only to prove the

assertions he then made, but to satisfy the audience that those who contradicted them were guilty of falsehoods which must have been wilfully and deliberately uttered ; be- cause the meeting Was called for the express purpose of refuting those charges, and it might, therefore, be fairly assumed that they took every means of fortifying them. selves for the performance of their self-im- posed task. At the

REFUTATION MEETING referred to, Mr. Dodd said : ‘‘I think, sir, that it ill becomes the Leader of the Govern- ment to make these false ‘and slanderous charges against me which he has. I am accused of drawing thousands of dollars

But this is

It is true ceonnt tor those grates and man- tles in the Public Works Department bears

But did this firm manu-

They clain have yort them? They claim to : ogrot | , oe nothing of the kind. They of his assertions and te convict 7 Hon. oe 1 y ™ + : , simply claim > to have bought them) Thomas Walker Dodd, not only of having

from Messrs. Dodd & Rogers, suld them to

wiiddlemen or

from the Treasury of this Island contrary) within the revenue. to the Independence of Parliament Act, thus making

while T was a member of the Government. A more direct falsehood could never have

been uttered,” (Hon. Mr. Sullivan) preferred against Mr. Dodd was, that he bad drawn thousands of dollars from the Treasury, contrary to the Independence of Parliament Act, and he was here to-night to prove the truth

drawn thousands of dollars from the Public -| Treasury contriry to the Independence of Parliament Act, but of deliberate falsehood as well. The amount paid to the firm of Dodd & Rogers through the Public Works Department alone for supplies made by them: to Mr. Davies’ Government is $4,- 239.86, and the register grates were seven hundred dollars in addition—making to- vether nearly $5,000.00. He did not, by any means, mean to say that that was all that firm received or claimed. It was merely what they had

THROUGH ONE DEPARTMENT.

He held in his hand a statement of the ac” curacy of this assertion, certified by the Secretary of Public Works, and dated 21st of March, 1879. Mr. Dodd says that when he became a member of the Government he went to Mr. Davies and asked him whether he might continue to supply kero- sene oil and other articles to the Depart- ment, and that Mr. Davies told him he could not, without violating the Independ- ence of Parliament Act. That Act applies to his being a member of the Legislature; and, therefore, Mr. Dodd, having had such information from Mr. Davies, is doubly criminal, because he

KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY

THE LAW.

On the 12th of September last, Mr. Dodd became a member of the Executive and Provincial Secretary and Treasurer; and ever since that period his firm has received

VIOLATED

thousands of dollars for sup- plies. He held in his hand the statement relating to an

account furnished by Dodd & Rogers in Jannary, 1879, and the dates of the items in it commence October the 19th, 1878, and run down to January 10th, 1879—during all of which period Mr. Thomas Walker Dodd wasa member of the Government and Proyiucial Secretary and Treasurer. He is therefore guilty of violating the law and of adding falsehood to the enormity of the offence. (Tremendous applause. )

NOW, WITH REFERENCE TO.MR, DAVIES, the Leader of the late Government, he add- ed his testimony to that of Mr. Dodd, and pronounced those charges false and slander- ous. He said that he always care- fully examined all the accounts paid by the Government; that all the accounts with Dodd & Rogers’ were closed when Mr. Dodd became a member of the Government, and that not a dollar’s worth of anything was got from them after- wards. The utter falsity of this statement of Mr. Davies was proved by the evidence which he (Hon. Mr. Sullivan) adduced with reference to Mr. Dodd. The glass contract aione realized to the firm of Dodd & Rogers $2,774.00 ; and there were in addition te that, many other supplies both before and after Mr. Dodd’s becoming a member of the Government,—and whilst he was a mem- ber of the Legislature,f which is real- ly the point—in this mattter. (Applause. ) Mr. Davies explains his payment of $70,000 without a vote of the Legislature, by saying that part of it—such as the salar ies—was mentioned in the statutes ; but that circumstance fails to do away with the necessity for having these sums voted by the House—as they always are every year —and distributed under the ‘‘ Appropria- tin Act.” But, clear of amounts fixed by statute altogether, it appears that upwards of

FORTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS

were paid out since the lst January, 1879, without a vote of the Legislature. (Sensation. ) In addition to that sum, there is the amount of about $1,000 for carpeting and furnish- ing the Legislative Council Chamber, at the very time that Mr. Davies was telling us, in the Governor’s Speech, that he intended to abolish the Council. (Laughter.) Be- sides, the amount expended by Mr. Davies without a vote of the House is not $70,000, but $75,824.12! With reference to Mr.

Davies’ assertion, that the elections would cost $6,000, he (Hon. Mr. Sullivan) wished to point out the

manner in which Mr. Davies sought to ex- plain himself. He (Mr. Davies) asserted at his recent meeting :—

‘* 1 did not say the appeal to the le would cost $6,000. I said the cost ee the dissolution and the election would be $5,000 er $6,000.”

That is not what Mr. Davies asserted on the occasion referred to. His exact words were published in the ‘‘ Patriot” of the, 15th March, and are :—

** I tell you, sir, that before the elections are over, they will be found to have cost nearer $6,000 than $5,000 of the money of the people of this Island.”

And the public will see that, by his ex- planatian, he admits, himself, that his statement was erroneous. (Applause.) The elections cannot possibly cost one fourth of the sum named by him. At a meeting held in the Athenzum during Mr. Dodd's election contest, Mr. Davies asserted that he held on to the Government in order to prevent the Opposition from making

DUCKS AND DRAKES

of the accounts. But it now appears that he retained the Government in order that he and his friends might make ducks and drakes of the accounts. He (Mr. Sullivan) held in his hand a _ statement from the Provincial Auditor, setting forth that Mr. Davies’ Government paid since the Ist January last $36,891.77 of amounts that should have been paid in 1878, and which were doubtless held over so as to throw them upon their successors, and to prevent the iatter, if possible, from keep- ing the expenditure of the current year And, whilst they were

Now, the charge which he

accounts and withholding payment from Government creditors they were PAYING INTEREST

to contractors in connection with the Asylum—(sensation) —thus - punishing the poor taxpayers of this Province in order to advance their own political interests. (Ap- plause.) Mr. Davies tells us that he did not leave AN EMPTY TREASURY.

Let us see what he understands by an empty Treasury. Up to the end of Decem- ber last, he expended some $23,000 more than he received ; and, if he had paid all that belonged to last year’s expenditure and which he paid this year,—amounting to nearly $37,000, his

DEFICIT WOULD BE SOME SIXTY THOUSAND

DOLLARS.

Mr. Davies says that that is not leaving an empty Treasury. Those who choose may believe him ! (Cheers and applause.) He (Hen. Mr. Sullivan) was glad to see Mr. Millner and other mechanics come forward to advocate the cause of the Liberal-Con- servatives— which is really the working- man’s party throughout the Dominion. He might say that the prospects of the Govern- ment candidates througheut the Province are excelient. Every seat in King’s County will becarried by the Government. In Prince and Queen’s Counties the prospects are most gratifying. He felt satisfied that after the 9th of April it would be seen that the Government was sustained by the largest majority ever given to a Government in this Province. He had no doubt that the Liberal-Conservatives of Charlottetown, Common and Royalty would do. their duty to themselves and to the country by piling up for MESSRS. DEBLOIS AND M'LEOD

an overwhelming majority. (Enthusiastic applause. )

To the Free and Independent Electors of the Third Electoral District of Queen’s County :

™ ENTLEMEN,—Owing to the dissoluticn ( KM of the House of Assembly, it becomes your duty to select Candidates to represent you in Parliament.

At the earnest request of many influential electors, from different sections of the District, I again, most respectfully and thankfully, sub- mit to be nominated as a candidate for the forth-coming General Election. .

My views on the political questions now agitating the minds of the people are well- known to the most of youall; and, if I again have the honor to be elected as your represen- tative, it shall be my earnest endeavour to as- sist in carrying out the reformatory measures ‘initiated by the present Government, and which the present condition of our finances require. i regret that, in consequence of indisposi- tion, 1 have been unable to meet you person- ally as I would wish; but, if returned at the coming election, you may feel assured that your interests and the local requirements of the District shall not be neglected. I thank you, gentlemen, sincerely, for the continued and liberal support which you have extended to me for the past twenty-two years, which is a satisfactory endorsement that my services have been duly appreciated. 1 have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obd’t servant, F. KELLY. Fort Augustus, March 26, 1879.

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Address P. 0. Box 103, Charlottetown. March 27, ’79,—2w

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