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Mr. Mackepzie entered official life with professions which, had they been honest- ly carried out, must have won for him at least the respect of poli- tical opponents as well as poli- tical friends. In a speech which he delivered in St. Catharines in 1870, he laid down this doctrine as that which should govern public jaen : — " He would " never accept office upon any consider- " ation if in doing so he had to abandon " the least of the principles he now pro- " fessed. The man who taught one " thing in Opposition and another when " he was in power, was a demagogue in " whom the people could have no confi- " dence whatever." How has he carried out this doctrine ; and how in the light of it is he to be judged by the electors, now that the day of judgment is dawning upon him ? Let us answer these ques- tions by a few out of the many facts which might be adduced ; and then in the presence of these facts let the elec- tors decide whether he and his friends have not earned the condemnation of being " demagogues in whom the people " could have no confidence whatever." THE COALITION PRINCIPLE. The people of Canada do not require to be told that the Clear-Grits and Rouges have always opposed the prin- ciple of coalitions. Mr. Brown sepa- rated from his party as far back as 1851, because he regarded the Hincks- Rolph Cabinet as a coalition. He rallied his party against the Macnab-Morin Gov- ernment in 1854 for the same reason.- And although ten years afterwards he united with Sir John Macdonald to carry out confederation, his contention was that that was a temporary union, in which parties ceased firing for a time, to resume, on the accomplishment of their object, the old bitterness and the old ani- mosities. In 1867,the party contended that the time for this renewal had arrived, and at the famous Reform Convention which was held in Toronto, before the elections of that year, the an ti- coalition principle, as a leading one of the party, was em- bodied in the following resolution : — " That Coalitions of opposing political par- ties for ordinary administrative purposes in- evitably result in the abandoumenc of prin- ciple by one or both parties to the compact, the lowering of public morality, lavish public expenditure, and widespread corruption : And while this Convention Is thoroughly satisfied that the Reform party has acted in the best interests of the country by sustaining the Government until the confederaton mea- sure was secured— it deems it an imperative duty to declare that the temporary alliance between the Heform and the Conservative parties should now cease, and that no Govern- ment will be satisfactory to the people of Up- per Canada which is formed and maintained by a Coalition of public men holding opposite pulitical principles." That resolution had reference to the Government of Ontario, under the leader- ship of Mr. John Sanfield Macdonald, in which were two Conservatives, Messrs. Cameron and Carling, as well as against i^oig ^'l<;?3Ci5e. Ki O 2 the Government of the Dominion, in the Upper Canada section of which were three Liberals, Messrs. Aikens, Macdouijall and Howland, the New Brunswick members of which we, Messrs. Tilley and Mitchell, are both Liberals, and one of the Nova Scotia members of which, Mr. Archibald, was a Liberal, making six Liberals in a Cabinet of thirteen, under the leadership of 8ir John A. Macdonild. It was urged that the old questions which had separated these parties had been settled by Con- federation, that there was really no essen- tial difference of opinion to divide them ; but Mr. Blake refused to accept this view, and speaking; for his party at a Re- form banquet in Toronto in December, 1870, he said :— " Oa wbat ground did these men appeal to the country ami conduct ibe Ouvern.ment of the fiovince? Oh! Iht Ihey weie good irlends; that all party dlffeieuces had been settled. Wbat -< mockery upon an intelligrnt people Is that statement ! Is It be causu one question, however momentous, is settled, that tue principles v hich underlie the current of public opinion, and wblch are contiuua ly to be brought into action, die with the settled question ? The question is settled, but the pi'iuciples are eterual aud survive." That was a declaration that the differ- ences between parties were fundamental, and could not be set aside by the Sbttle- ment of any leading questions. Mr. Mackenize in the March subsequently at Hamilton,' deBned clearly what a coali- tion was, and how the principle of the Toronto convention would be violated in the forming of a Government. He said : — "There are on'y two ways of cnrrying'on a Goveruiueut; oue is by having a Qoveinment corapo»ed «>f men who are eutireiy lu nar- muuy on all lea -ing subjects, or by a coalition of different parties who arts deie' mined to cany on the udmlnistration of affaiis in any way th y can manage, the only possible w- y being to bribe a certain ijumber of consiitu- euclea. • • • • lo pr cu e good Goveiii- Dieut, it is necessary that a Prtmier should strictly select his collea ues from the party whose princi(>les be iotends to CHrry out. T* bring into the ablnet I he member of an op- poblng party is Coaliiion." At the first opportunity that these Clear Grits had of forming a Gov- ernment, they violated this prin- ciple, 'ihat was in the formation ot the Ontario Government under Mr. Blake, and with Mr. Mackenzie as his Treasurer, when he took Mr. Scott, who had always been a Conservative, and who had just been elected as a Conservative, into his Cabinet. In fact, so strong was Mr. Scott in his allegiance to the Conser- vative party that the Globe had described him as of a class which it was hoped would be got rid of. " We trust," it said, " that " the Scotts are gone, and we hope '' in a few years to see a better genera- " tion of politicians grow up." Again, referring to the elections for Ottawa in 1867, the Globe spoke of Mr. Scott as " John A.'s nominee." And during the first Legislature of Ontario, from 1867 to 1871, out of 221 votes given in the Legis- lature by Mr. Scott, 208 were given against the Reform party. After the elections he was Mr. Sandfield Mac- donald's nominee for Speaker, and was elected to that position, and when he went into Mr. Blake's Government he wrote to Sir John A. Macdonald in rela- tion to it, recognizing him as his leader, and pledging his coctinued allegiance to him. That was the first violation of this coalition priii'-i|>'f. nnd it showed that the ciy of no-cuaiitions was a mere pre- tence to be got rid of at the very first opportunity that offered. When the Government of Sir John Macdonald retired iu 1873, and Mr. Mac- kenzie was called upon to form a Govern- ment, he took six gentlemen who bad been supporters of the Conservatives into his Cabinet. These were : — Mr. Scott, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Coffin, Mr. Ross, Mr. Burpee, Mr. A. J. Smith. We have already seen that Mr. Scott was a Conservative. Mr. Cartwright was not only a Conservative, but a regular blue blooded Tory — an old family compact man — one of the class the Clear Grits are so fond of abusing. Only a year before he accepted O'iice, at the elections of 1872, he was opposed as a Conservative, and was, as a matter of course, abused accordingly. The Globe devoted a whole column to the specification of special charges against him, in order to defeat him in his constituency. Here is the record of his " crimes" as given in the Globe in 1872 :— 1. Mr. Cartwright voted to *' reward foul murder" in the North-West. 8 2. Mr. Cartwright, on the 18th Decem- ber, 1867, voted " for the adoption of a route for the Intercolonial railway, which he knew to be inimical to the interests of the Dominion." 3. Mr. Cartwright, on the 11th Decem- ber, 1867, helped by bis vote to " subvert the Parliamentary safeguards respecting the control of money." 4. Mr. Cartwright, on the 5 th May, 1868, "frustrated economy," having helped to vote down Mr. Holton's motion for the reorganization of the Civil Service. 5. Mr. Cartwright, on the 19th May, 1868, voted down Mr. Blake's motion for the better securing of the Independence of Parliament. 6. Mr. Cartwright, on the 15 th May, 1869, " delivered the Treasury into the hands of the most unprincipled of men," by helping to vote down Mr. Mackenzie's motion respecting the Fortification Grant, as follows : — " That no suras shall be expended on such works until a separate eslimaie for each work to be conHtructbd shall be submitted to Par- liameiit, and th^t the amount tu be expended in uanh year shall be voted from time to time." 7. Mr. Cartwright, on the 16th of June, 1867, voted for the " violation of the Con- stitution " in the matter of the Nova Sco- tia subsidy. 8. Mr. Cartwright, on the 17th June, 1869, voted for the " corruption of mem- bers of the House," having helped to vote down Mr. Bolton's motion respecting the payment to Col. Gray for codifying the laws. 9. Mr. Cartwright, on the 19th June, 1869, voted for the "Chantry Island job." 10. Mr. Cartwright, on the 10th May, 1870, voted for the Alanitoba Act, thereby becoming a party to " one of the most ini- quitous and blundering of measures." 11. Mr. Cartwright, on the 28th Febru- ary, 1871, voted against the abolition of Dual Representation. 12 Lastly, Mr. Cartwright, on the 1st June, 1872, voted for the " abdication by Parliament of its constitutional right to control the public expenditure on the Pacific Railway," having helped to vote down a motion by Mr. E. B. Wood re- specting the money asked by the Govern- ment for the construction of the Pacific Railway, as follows : — " That the $30,000,<'00 and 00.000,^00 acres of land be only disposed of by speclflo annual votes «)f Parliament from time ut time a'^shnll set-m to Parliament right and proper so that Par lament shall not be divested of Its most important constitutional functloH, viz , con- trol over the public expendltur*) of the coun- try." And yet the man with all these crimes upon his head, who in 1872 was consider- ed unfit, because of them, to represent a constituency as an independent mem- ber of Parliament, was in 1873 taken into the Government by Mr. Mackenzie as his Finance Minister, and has been ever since, as an act of gratitude and submis- sion, abusing his old political friends, for these very votes which he had himself joined them in giving. Messrs. Coffin, Ross, Burpee, and Smith were all elected in 1872 as sup- porters of the Government of Sir John A. Macdonald. Mr. Smith, in his address to his electors, was most emphatic on tbat point, lie said: — " Gentlemen, five years ago you sent me to the Parliament of our country with all my prepossessions in favor of the Reform party. Having carefully watched both sides, 1 have been giving my support to the Liberal-Conserv- ative party, AND I TELL YOU AS AN HONEST Man, THAT I H YOU CHOOSE ME AS YOUR REPRESENTA riVE AGAIN IT MU'T be ON THE UN- DERSI ANDING THAI' I AM SIILL lO SUPPORT THAT PARTY." So strong were these four gentlemen as supporters of the Government that on the cele- brated vote on Mr. Huntington's charges against the lace Government, they all voted with Sir John Macdonald. But, say the Grit apologists tor the coalition principle which they formerly condemned so strongly, these men quarrelled with the Government on the subject of the Pacific scandal. Suppot\e that is ad- mitted. Did it justify them taking ofilce with their political opponents, or the otter of office to them by the great opponent of coalitions, as necessarily moral and corrupt? If it did, then what becomes of Mr. Blake's magnificent rbodoman- date? "Is it because one question, "however momentous, is settled, "that the principles which tm- ""~> .-V, '*'\ >^>=^'^r^o| " derlie the current of public opinion, " and which are continually to be brought " into action,die with the settled question? " The question is settled, but the princi- " ciples are eternal and survive." Surely the same principle should apply in rela- tion to a quarrel with the leader of a party on one question. That question may cause an estrangementbetween the leader and the follower; but it cannot justify the latter in being accepted as a leader in the ranks of the opposite party. The quarrel has occurred, " but the principles " are eternal and survive." The present Government is, therefore, as much a co- alition Government as were any of those condemned by Mr. Mackenzie and his friends on that ground, and his own words are fairly applicable to him, " that the " man who taught one thing in opposition " and another when he was in power, was " a demagogue in whom the people could "have no confidence whatever." That was the position at the formation of the Cabinet. Mr. Mackenzie has cer- tainly not improved since. His conduct in taking Mr. Cauchon into the Cabinet, was not only a violation of the anti-coali- tion principle of which he used to talk so much ; it was a declaration that even the worst men in the Conservative party, the men who have been discredited by it, will be taken up by those Grit-Rouges, if their party interests can be advantaged by it. Mr. Blake, in denouncing the Sandfield Macdonald Government in 1870, laid down a principle which is cer- tainly valuable, but which was terribly violated when Mr. Cauchon was taken into the Cabinet. Heferring to Mr. Mac- donald, he said : " But he has formed an " an alliance with the men who de- " nounced him as unworthy of public " confidence and almost of private asso- " ciations in days gone by." And then having enumerated some of the charges which had been made against Mr. Mac- donald, all of which had relation simply to an alleged misuse of patronage to keep his party in power, and noi, to any act done for his own personal advantage, Mr. Blake v»rent on : "I would like to know " how Mr. Macdonald, the sinner of 1864, '< is the saint of to-day. None of these " charges have been retracted, and are *•' yet hanging over his head. So much " with reference to. the antecedents of " the Administration. I ask now what " you could expect from such a union, " what progeny from such an unnatural " alliance ?" That was the doctrine then, that a man once charged with political wrong-doing by a party, cannot after- wards act with that party without dis- honour to both, unless the charge has been retracted. In the case of Mr. Cau- chon, he had been abused as a public man for the grossest maladminis- tration of the departments over which he presided. But he had been accused of a worse crime than this, of prostitut- ing his public position to his own private gam. The Globe of the 6th December, 1872, said of him:— " It (the report of the Beauport Committee) tells Its own atory, and that is a very disgrace- ful one. A Job is bad enough in any case, but ajob at the expense of the poor unfortunates who have lost their reasun is especially de- testable." And on the 9th December, 1872 : — " The Beauport Job is rank and smells to Heaven. "That Cauehon has been proved guilty of Jobbery, and of defiantly breaking the law for years, iu, we should think, not doubted by any sane man." And on the 26th December, 1872:— " 9C. Cauchon comes back, apparently, to brazen out the whole of his iniquities, and the Ministry (of Quebec), with that helpless want of self-respect which they have all along shown, are eager to override all ordinary forms and requirements for the privilege of again saluting their 'honorable friend' as member for Montmorency. Some men, even in their degradation, have some respect for themselves, but M. Chauveau and his friends seem to have lost theirs, if they ever had it." Mr. Fenny, a Senator and a leading Reformer of Quebec, wrote in his news- paper, the Montreal Herald of the 18th December, 1872:— " Scandalous as this affair is in its barest outline, it is made infinitely worse by its at- tendant circumstances. It is worse because this villainous bargain was made with a man (M. Cauchon) holding no less honorable a posi- tion than the Presidentship of the Menate; worse because the materials out of which the Job was affected were those who sufl'tir from the saddest infirmity to which human nature is liable, because what was bought and sold was the power of squeezing the highest possi- ble profit out of economies, exercised at the cosf of the most helpless of Qod's creatures. It is quite safe to say that if this were a mat- ter of life and death in the Criminal Court, the evidence of M. Cauchon— not to go a step too far, we ao not include the Ministry in the scopeof this sentence— would be sufilcient to hang him." to 8 barest its at- because a man e a posi- Menate ; lioh the iT from natu'e Dd sold t possi- at the latures. a mat- Court, > a step rln the cieut to And Senator Hector Fabre, another leading Liberal, wrote in his newspaper, L^Evenement, of the same date : " Mr. Oauchon will be able, perhaps, to se- cure, as he announces, his re-election for Montmorencl, but be will never recover from the blow he has Just received. The confession of culpability which has lately been extracted from nim will be as a weight upon him for evermore. It is now impossible that be should ever be Iiieut.-Qovernor or Local Prime Minister, for the too-lengthened series of his double dealings has come to a close. He goes forth this day from the Local Cham- ber despised and spnt upon, only soon to with- draw from public life, crushed and disgraced. It is the commencement of capital punish- ment which honest people have been demand- ing for so long a time past." Those were hard words ; how have they been fulfilled? This same Mr. Cauchon, three years afterwards, without one of these expressions having been re- tracted, was made, not, it is true, a local Prime Minister, but was brought into Mr. Mackenzie's Cabinet as the leader of the Rouge party which had thus abused him, and as President of the Coun- cil for the Dominion ! Were the state- ments made in relation to Mr. Canchon true or untrue? If true, and he had to resign his seat in the Legislature of Que- bec because of them, what shall we say of a party which, in violation of their anti-coalition pledges, made him a Min- ister, and afterwards imposed him as Lieutenant-Governor on one of the Pro- vinces of the Dominion? If it be con- tended that the charges were untrue or exaggerated, what shall we say of a party that could thus slander a public man ? As we have said, they have not been re- tracted ; it is not pretended that they are untrue, and under the circumstances we may well ask, in the language of Mr. Blake, " what could you expect from such " a union, what progeny from such an un- " natural alliance." So much for the wav in which the Grits in office have car- ried out their principle in relation to the immorality of coalitions, which they professed in opposition NUMBER OF MINISTERS. The electors of Canada do not need to be told that the Grit-Eouge party at the time of confederation, and since until they took office, were professedly op- posed to a Cabinet of thirteen Ministers. In the very first session of the Parliament of Canada, Mr. Blake challenged the wisdom of having so many Ministers, and with that peculiar faculty which he has shown since he entered public life, of con- demning himself in advance, denounced the number, irrespective of the mere question of economy. With him it was the extent of executive influence in Par- liament which was the danger, and he pronounced himself strongly, amid the admiring plaudits of the whole party, against the right of the executive to ap- point ministers, not specifically named by the law, even if those ministers should consent to,act without salary. He said : " It is necessary to prevent, by stringent nactments. the possibility on the part of the Crown of flUing the House with more than the necessary number of exenutive officers. It is wrong to argue that because a member of the Executive does not receive a direct salary from the Crown, therefore he can be added to the Kxeoutive Council with Impunity. If that argument were correct, any number of such offices might be created, and the whole House controlled by placemen who nominally are servants of the Crown !" Later, m October 1870, Mr. Mackenzie in a speech delivered by him in London, laid down the Grit-Rouge doctrine in re- lation to the Cabinet of the Dominion in these words : — " While the flnancen of the Province were formerly administered by one Minister, we have now four. One, who is supreme, is Hincks ; the other, Tilley, is Minister of Cus- toms; Morris, Is Minister of Inland Bevenue, and another gentleman is Beceiver-Oeneral. Mow, what I contend for is. that there is no necessity for this amplifloation of the Cabinet. There is no necesstt-- fur a Cabinet of thir- teen ! The Unitefi , tates have a population of forty miliiont -ast territory and v :.i concerns to mau^ •.— still they get along with seven Ministei., and one i-ecr^tary of the Treasury conaucts all the financial affairs." In November 1873, three years after this strong declaration against the neces- sity " for a Cabinet of thirteeu,' Mr. Mackenzie was called upon to form a Government. How did he carry out his principles ? By reducing the number of Cabinet Ministers ? Not a bit of it. He formed his Cabmet with fourteen mem- bers, Mr. Blake, in his own person, violat- ing his own statement against the Crdwn " filling the House with more than the " necessary executive officers" even al- though " a member of the executive does " not receive a direct salary from the " Crown," by becoming a Minister with- out salarjr, and in excess of the number' allowed bv law ! And be has ever since continuedl with the thirteen members in his cabinet. The finances of the Dominion continue to be administered by four Ministers, in spite of Mr. Macken- zie's condemnation of that state of things. Last season, it is true, there was a bill introduced to abolish the office of Re- ceiver-General ; but in its place it was proposed to add an Attorney-General, an office about as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, unless it was to give another position to one of the lawyers in Parlia- ment. The Senate amended the bill by striking out the clause creating the new office, that of Attorney General, and the Ministers abandoned it in consequence. After all their denunciations of a cabinet of thirteen, they actually refused to abolish one of the offices which they had declared to be useless, unless they were permitted, at the same time, to create another office, which was certainly quite as useless, in order that the cabinet of thirteen might be maintained ! PURITY AT ELECTIONS. In nothing have the pretensions of the present (Government and the party which supports it been more extravagant than in their claim that they were opposed to electoral corruption, and anxious to pre- vent the use of money in bribing elec- tors. It is not necessary to quote their repeated statements to that efiect. They formed, in fact, the stock in trade of the party. What has been their record in this respect ? In the publication of what is known as the "big push letter," we have a proof that at the very time they were most loud in their denunciations of bribery they w«»re|themselves revelling in corruption. It is worth while reprinting the big push letter, as an example of the shameless manner in which the corrup- tion fund was solicited, and the purposes for which it was intended to be used. Here is the substance of it : — " TOROHTO, August I5th, 1872. "Hon. John Simfhon,« "Presd't Ontario Bank. "My Dkar Sib,— The flght goes bravely on. * • • We have expended our strength In aiding outlying counties and helping our city candidates. But a big push has to be made on isaturday and Monday for the East and West divisions. • • • We there- fore make our grand btaxd on •'aturday. There are but half a dozen people that can COME DOWN HANDSOMRLY, and WO have done all we possibly can du, aud we hxve to ask a few outsiders to aid us. Will you bk one? I have been urged to write yon, and comply accordingly. Things look well all over the Province. • • • Things look bright in Quebec ! " Faithfully yours. " George Brown." It has been pretended thai this money was only required for the ordinary legal expenses of the election. But the elec- tors will readily see that that b an absurd pretension. The ordinary legal expenses of an election are not incurred on the day before the voting and on the day of vot- ing. When large sums of money are re- quired on those days, it is for corrupt purposes ; and under these circumstances, the opinion of Mr. Justice Wilson on this letter will be accepted as a correct opin- ion. The learned Judge said : — " It is a " letter written for corrupt purposes, to " interfere with the freedom of elections. " It is an invitation to the recipient as " one, with some others and the writer, '' to concur in committing bribery and " corruption at the polls." That was at the elections of 1872, and everything concurs to show that what was done in Toronto was done throughout the Do- minion. In 1874, at the general elections, the same wholesale corruption prevailed, and that in spite of the fact that the special issue of that election, according to Grit- fiouge orators, was the question of elec- toral purity. The Conservative Govern- ment had passed an act for the trial of controverted elections by the Courts, and •the result was the exposures which have startled and disgusted the public. Of the Ministerialists elected no less than thirty have been unseated by the Courts for corrupt practices by themselves or by their agents, as follows : — Shibley, Cushing, Jodoin, Trembiay, Mackay, Macdonald (Cornwall), McGregor, McNab, Chisholm, Wood, Irving, Cameron (S. Huron), Norris, Walker, Devlin, Mackenzie (Montreal), Coupal, Stuart, Biggar, Kerr, Murray, Aylmer, Wilkes, Prevost, Higinbotham, to Macdougall (S.Renf'w), oook, O'Donohue, McLennan, Dymond. The extent oi corruption practised la many of these cases was not exposed, be- cause in order to avoid exposure the members went through the form of *' throwing up the sponge," as it was pop- ularly called. Sut in some cases we have the proof in a form that cannot well be disputed. Here, for instance, is Mr. Cook's confession of how he did it, the statements being from his own evidence in bis election trial in 1874 : — " In the spring of 1871 1 canvassed the con> stitunncy for ooe inontb or six weeks ; In 1872 I canvassed the coubtltuency for a similar lenghofiime. JSpenking from memory, the expenses of my canvass In 1871 would reach about $1U,IJ00 ; It might amount to $i3,000, for I do not charge my mind with $2,(M)0 or $8,0< in election matteis. I have been examining my accounts for election expenses in 1872, and making a rough estimate I place them at iiilH.UOOto $15,U0U. They certainly did not ex- ceed the latter sum. That amount I paid my- self. I do not kLOw anything about suras paid by my friends. In 1874 the expenditures were much smaller, because I thought I would have the sympathy of the people la consequence of my expenditures in it»72, and that my oppo neni would have to carry the Pacific scandal on his back." Here is a confession of an expenditure of $25,000 in corrupting the electors of one constituency in the interests of the principle of purity of elections ! What was actually spent may be inferred from the confession of this eminent star in the Clear Grit firmament, that he does not charge his memory with such paltry sums as two or three thousand dollars when dealing with election ex- penditure. It is hardly necessary to say that with such a record, perhaps on ac- count of it, Mr. Cook has been chosen Ministerial standard bearer for his county at the coming election. Then we have "Major" Walker, of rx)ndon. As far as could be ascertained by the evidence, some $25,000 was spent in his case, in order to prove to the elec- tors of London the importance of elec- toral purity. Here is what Mr. Justice G Wynne thought of this case : — '• We can as readily believe it is possible for the respondent to have been Immersed in the lake HUil to have been taken out dry as that the acts of bribery whicli iho evidence dis- /elosts to have been committed on his behalf, almost under hla eyes, In bis dally path, with means of corruption proceeding from bis own h«>adquarter8, and from the hand* of his non- fldeutlal agent, could have b^en committed otherwise khan with his knowledge and con- sent. * • • Ii IS my pillion that the pro- arrangements or undertaking, tacit or ex- press, between the paitks was that the re»pondent should be kept, in 1 noranoe of the Canicular separate and distinct acts of bri- ery commiit d, while he was aware, as he could not but be, upon rational urinciples, that corruption and wickedness upon m most extensive scale were practised around him on his behalf and in bis solo Interest." As Major Walker had sworn that he knew nothing about these expenditures, these words of the learned Judge look very like a charge of deliberate peijury against that gallant gentleman. He has since been a shining light among the " purists " of the West, in personal at- tendance upon Mr. Mackenzie in his political perigrinations, and he is now the standard-bearer ot the party, in the interests of purity of elections, at the coming election for London. Here in two constituencies alone, we have the proof of a large ex- penditure, larger by at least ten thousand dollars, than 8ir John Macdonald obtain- ed in 1872 from Sir Hugh Allan for the whole eighty-six uiiiariu constituencies ! In South Huron Mr. M. C. Cameron admitted in his evidence that he had paid from $10,000 to $14,000 in order to win that County in the interests of purity of elections. The Ilonble Malcolm Cam- eron, in that remarkable confession which he made before his death, stated that he had spent $6,000 in contesting Kussell, the expenditure " having had a good " effect in subsequently securing that •' constituency to the Keformers," and he complained that his party had not re- imbursed him, as they promised to do, showing that the corruption was not a personal but a party affair. 1 he Honble Mr. Koss, the Minister of Militia at the time, according to correspondence re- cently made public, admitted as follows : — " I placed with my committee a certain " amount of money to relieve honest, " worthy men." In the Chambly elec- tion, it was proved that Mr. Laiiamme, the present Minister of Justice, was the manager of a corruption fund to which one gentleman, Mr. Jodoin, who was unseated and disqualified, had con- tributed twenty thousand dollars. TheBe are simply specimen bricks of the wholesale corruption resorted to by the Grit-Rouge combination, in the interests of purity of elections. They afford a striking illustration of the difference between the professions and prac- tices of Mr. Mackenzie and his friends. CONNECTION OF DOMINION AND LOCAL POLITICS. These is only one more point that it is necessary to refer to under the general head of the differences between the pro- fessions and acts of the Ministerialists, and that has relation to their pretension in former times that there should be a complete severance between the Federal and local Governments. When the Blake-Mackenzie Government was form- ed in Ontario, Mr. Blake in his speech announcing the policy of the Government, stated his complaint against the former Government as follows : — " My friends and myself have for the past four years claimed that the lute Administra- tion was formed upon the principle and the understanding that It and the (government of the Dominion should work together— play into one another's hands— that they should be allies." And then he pointed out the prin- ciple upon which the Government was formed : — " My friends and myself thought, and my Administration now thinks that such an arrangement I* injurious to the well-being of Confederation, calculated to create difflcul- tits which might be avoided, and that there should exist no other attitude on the part of the Provincial Government towards the Gov- ernment of the Dominion than one of neu- trality, that each Government should be ab- solutely Independentln the managementof its own affairs. We believe that the Govern- ment of the Province ought not to assume a position of either allianceor hostility towards the Governmentof the Dominion." We might quote from speeches of others, Mr. Mackenzie for instance, in confirmation of the statemeut that that was the fixed policy ot the Clear Grits. But it is only necessary to quote one pas- sage from the Globe to show what were the evidences upon which they charged against the Conservatives an improper alliance between the I/)cal and Federal Governments : — " We are now in a posi- tion to declare that the two Macdonalds have arrived at an understanding in refer- ence to the coming campaign. They are to hunt in couples and mutually to seek each other's well-being and success." This hunting in couples and mutually seeking each other's well-being and suc- cess, on the part of the Dominion and local Governments was the aUiance to which the Clear Grits pledged themselves to put an end. They were no sooner in office than they began to violate this prin- ciple. We had the remarkable letter from Mr. D. A. Macdonald, the Postmaster-Gen- eral, to Mr. Mowat, in which he said,"l am " satisfied that you can depend upon the " eastern section supporting you to a man. "WE ARE ALL DOING THE VERY " BEST WE CAN FOR YOU." At every one of the meetings held by Mr. Macken- zie throughout the country, members of the local Government of Ontario have stood on the same platform, " hunting in couples with him," and mutually seeking each other's well-being and success. The recent crisis in Quebec had no other object than that of getting the Local Gov- ernment into the hands of the Rouges, for the sake of the influence it would give in the coming elections for the House of Commons. And since the local elections, judgships, which are in the exclusive gift of the Dominion Government, have been offered to members of the Legisla- tive Assembly in Quebec to induce them to sustain the Joly Government. But it is the old story of the wrong ox being gored. An alliance between the Federal and local Governments, in the interests of the Conservatives, is a thing to be con- demned, as destructive of the working of the Federal principle ; such an alliance in the interests of the Grits and Rouges, is a thing not only to be commended, but to be brought about by the most violent measures.