Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tol.41 weather forecast. Fine and Veny Winn. Sun rises sets . Moon rises sets . Wino Peg Friday july 10, 1914. Twenty pages Early Man the guard the ballot last moment talks to electors polls open today at nine a and close at five. Some electors seem to think that the poll remains open to eight As in the municipal elections. Ibis is a mistake. Electors vote where they registered. The exceptions to this Rule where the poll has been changed it is but a few doors electors can help the cause mightily by voting Esterly. A vote Bce polled ceases to be a source of concern to the outside scrutineers a cannot then be Persona Ted or lost. Vote Early after you vote put your services at the disposal of the outside scrutineer. Make yourself one of the Active workers. Forget about the this be possible for one Day. There Are stories of rough work to be attempted at some of the Olls by organized gangs of toughs. There ought to be fifteen or Twenty Stalwart liberals i every poll All Day until the ballots Are counted. Don t let the withhold . Bonds government action on company s position on machinists strike. Winnipeg is interested. Railway people have refused to line up to conciliation Board finding. To tags steal this election. Don t spoil your ballot. You will be Given two ballots enter your Booth. You must Mark one name on each bal ballot will be to lose your vote. Of Vou to Mark two names on one leg a a. B. Hudson. Winnipeg South seat . Winnipeg Centre seat at. H. Johnson Centre seat j. D1xon. North seat a a North seat r. Ottawa july t. W. Croth ers minister of labor who has been spending a in Prince Edward Island has returned to Ottawa fully recuperated. Labor troubles this season Are considerably below the average and the conciliation boards which Are now sitting in a number of disputes Are Likely to reach amicable agreements. One outstanding question is that of the grand trunk Pacific machinists strike at Winnipeg. It is charge against the company that failed to carry out the provisions of the Board of conciliation s award and re presentations have been made to the government that the financial assist Ance guaranteed at the last session should be conditional upon the agree ment being implemented. The evening journal states that the guarantee of Bonds will not be issued until the g. T. P. Agrees to into volunteers and a generous response is looked for. Commiss on of Keene and Ham Ikon cancelled their own of dismissals eve o f crooked work of caused1 feeling of intense the latest eleventh hour perform Ace Roblin machine in its Des Perate Effort to Cope with the situation in a inn Pek is one which will be received by the Winnipeg with astonishment and disgust. The government yesterday cancelled the commissions held by Fred c. Ham Ilton and t. C. Keenleyside As justices the peace. These men were about the Only two Liberal . S left in Winnipeg and their commission s were cancelled Lor the obvious Piar pose of making it difficult for the liberals to swear out information today in Trie event of electoral crookedness. The letter of dismissal was delivered at or. Hamilton s House about i o clock Man who handed him the letter said that an answer was not expected. And went away without de Lay. The same procedure was followed in the Case of or. Keenleyside. The letter received by or. Hamilton was in these terms Winnipeg july 9, have the Honor to inform you that by order in Council no. Bearing Date the second Day of july inst your appointment As a Justice of the peace has been rescinded. I have the Honor to be sir. Your most obedient servant. Joseph Bernier provincial Secretary. Of. C. Hamilton esq., "1 Bank of Hamilton bldg., notification delayed. It will be noted that the order in Council is dated july 2, while the notification of dismissal was delayed until late in the afternoon of july 9, the Day before the election. The intention of course was to make it impossible for the liberals to secure the services of . This expectation however will not be realized. The news of the dismissal of or. Hamilton arid or. Keenleyside went Over the City Vike will fire and almost immediately the Liberal executive were advised Over the Telephone that one of the leading conservatives Winnipeg who is a . Would be glad to put his services at the disposal o f the party. Other offers of the same kind were made later in the evening and it is not Likely that the liberals if they find any need for a . Today effect the findings conciliation. Of the Board of bum Obed my denial to me Ells solicitor general at Portage meeting his state Menton were incorrect world s news summary Friday july 10. The weather forecast for today is As follows generally Fino and very warm. Lords confine attention to trying to prevent civil War but provisional retired before License hotel at Neepawa did not sell liquor during his connection with Liberal executive notified by leading official of government that Effort would be made. F. C. Hamilton. Not the least remarkable feature of the Campaign just closing has been the manner in which the Liberal executive has kept itself advised of every move in the Camp of its enemy. Of importance has been decided upon in even the most secret conference of the party without the flows being promptly carried through secret channels to the Liberal head quarters. The whole Roblin organization from top to Bottom is torn with jealousy and distrust and this has facilitated the work of Tho liberals in securing the necessary information As to the plans of the machine. Practically All the facts about the distribution o f Money throughout the province is known. The amount collected the place where it has been kept its distribution through out the province the parties who Are handling it in the various cons Titu those facts Are a matter of record in the Liberal offices. It May be said that the Campaign fund at the disposal of the Robin government is unusually Large. The amount to be spent in the City of Winnipeg alone is a princely Fortune. Most of this Money has been carried around to the various Headquarters and hotels by a very Well known citizen of Winnipeg whose Little Black bag has been much in evidence these last few Days. Several Days ago the Liberal executive was advised of a concerted attempt today announces the head quarters for the system for the purposes of today s election. X in the working of the machine methods lit is Neo Effary to have a number of offices or Headquarters where the voters Are of funded up and then sent out to the polls in automobiles from which also the necessary tin seers Are made. These Aro the stations for today s operatic Griffith s liquor store in the maw charge of m. J. Stone chief License inspector. Great West club Corner main and charge of manages Forks. Moose charge of Holden. S printers club Cuni Berland charge of Bun Foley. Pyramid charge of Jas. Banks porters will work from southerly end of charge of Powers of the License department. Green s wholesale liquor store fort charge of m. Jackson. Manitoba charge of w. Lawson. J 903 main Street North end. J Crump Block North end. I Wie hotels. Liberal pickets will watch these Headquarters All Day and Liberal patrols will keep Tib on a parties leaving these places. Any attempt at a breach of the Law a full mean immediate detection. Ciui jul a clubs of that class and state d that ii. J or Gordon could not set a prosecution Lor violations in those that if or. Gordon would Lay the information and no one would that he Shack. Page 8. Stronger stocks show improvement at new York. Page 13. Tram Power keeps no its activity at Montreal. Page is. Hindus on Komagata maim in riot oils mood. Page 2. Suspected men Are under arrest at Regina. Page Drun Lsen scenes in main Street hotels. Page 20. Annual meeting of the Canadian press. Page 4. Rumoured attempt at ballot snatch ing. I fluctuations in Winnipeg options. Page 14. Mrs. Nellie Mccuing winds up wonderful speaking Campaign at monster Liberal meeting five thousand people sweltering m crowded convention Hall of Industrial Bureau roused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm a remarkable demonstration fighting speeches from promm ent opposition leaders. Or. Meighen would do it hit self. Statement Correct. Or. Gordon who followed suited that everything that ill. Meighen had said wars wrong and that he. Was. Profound y ashamed that a Man of or. Weiglien s intellect and ability should have. Allowed himself to make such state ments. The speaker did not wonder Norse that the Premier called politics a dirty mess. Or. Gordon said that he had invested he thought in the hotel but was glad to learn Erom or. Meighen that it was Only that when the hotel business was wound up and sold he got and lost according to or. Yet the Lar Ter claimed that. The. Cheque was a dividend. He could not see it. The time has come said or. Gordon when the people of Canada Are tired of the dyed in the Wool party and or. Meighen would soon realize this to his Justice of the peace of Winnipeg for to affect the result of the election by ten years dismissed by government on eve of election. Said High Jinks in North Winnipeg. Page Hope for. Six seats in City. Page 14. Dufferin Terrace at Quebec burned. Page 8. Joint meet the at St. Boniface. Page 2. Fight for Freedom of doctor s wife. Page 2. Last moment talks to electors. Page 1. Page 1-2 sorrow. Or. Gordon then made forceful argument on the question which to his mind with the school question Are the greatest issues in the Campaign arid pleaded Audi ence to put humanity before party when they the polls tomorrow and vote for the party which promises continued on Page mrs., up her wonderful campaigns Mast eight before an audience of Boot people or More in the7big convention Hall of the Industrial Bureau building. When she concluded tour magnetic Hurt Logi Cal Appeal the vast audience was worked up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. Mrs. Mccuing was never More impressive and while some of hex pungent humor was in , the fact that the crisis had been reached and that the next Day would see the casting of ballots to be very grave and earnestly eloquent in her Appeal. The Hall was intensely hot and be fore mrs. Mccuing arrived from her other evening the Audi ence had listened to a magnificent argumentative address by a. Colder who showed. Up the inefficiency and depravity which has characterized the Roblin administration. Fighting speeches had also been made by or. J. N. Hutchi Sori e. D Martin. And Frank. Oliver before. Mrs Mcclung arrived. The crowd heartily cheered All speakers and remained patiently institution. He has a perfect right As a Man to has opinion. But the people of this province have a right to say. Whether or riot a Man with such Opin. Ions shall be their Premier. Sir mond is too old now to change Bis opinions we do not expect to change them for him but we do intend to change tremendous cheery Imperial and foreign news. Foreign markets by. Cable. Page 14, personal and social. Page 9. Commercial news. Pa-gem4. Editorial Section. Page. 11. Financial news. Magrath fire loss Lethbridge Alta. July Elli son Mill and at Magrath Lajb la. Ulic Juliy were burned to the ground this morn n Publio Eye. It was a remarkable x sat Kleih. Twit Ltd _ _ to their seats fanning sweltering themselves and when appeared of the ski form she was called upon to speak she received an. Ovation such fails to the lot of any one ing total loss about Twenty two thousand bushels of Grain were consumed. Will be seriously Inco Moded. Or. Keenleyside has been a . In Manitoba for 20 years. He was first appointed by Tho Greenway govern ment and the commission was sub sequently confirmed by the government. F. C. Hamilton has been a. . For the last 10 years. The announcement at the meeting in the convention Hall last night of the dismissal of messes. Hamilton and Keenleyside created a veritable sen there was a marked display of indignation on the part of the. Audience and As a direct result Over. 100 Wen tendered their services for special election work today. Machine truly desperate. This action by the. Machine appears give color to a report current yesterday that actions b under in a pm pain of blunders. It will Cost the conservative Candi dates in Centre anal Bouth Winnipeg he said 100 votes Eacle i can assure you that they cannot afford to lose this number of votes. Drowned at Gimli body of George aged 7, found by his Mother. Free press special Gimli Man., july 9.-k3eorge Green Wood age 1, was drowned while in bathing this afternoon. been in the water sometime when mrs. Greenwood noticed that he was miss ing. Shortly after that mrs. Gregory who was also in bathing found the body ind with the help of or. Carried it ashore. Darby Ili Ilcus 4. Nurse from the presbyterian fresh air Camp applied artificial respiration and half an hour later or. Dunn arrived and worked for some time longer but finally declared that life was extinct. Arrangements have been Mada to Send the body to in the morning. This is the first Bath ing fatality in Gimli in ten years. Souris Man has leg amputated. Souris. Man., july Kay nor Section Foreman Al was badly injured in the . Yards Here last evening. While jumping from a Box car he slipped and was Over. One foot was almost while the broken in two places and knee dislocated. He ballot switching. The letter of warn ing came from a very High official in the. Conservative organization and was in these terms there is on foot a conspiracy to mutilate and switch ballots at the coming provincial elections an organization being formed among the government supporters to carry out this criminal proceeding and to prevent the will of the governing. The mutilating of ballots by the returning officer by Means o f a piece of Lead under the thumb or Finger Nail and again in calling out the ballots after the election to Call out the government candidate s name instead of the opposition candidate s name and then placing the ballot so counted with the government candidate s pile though marked for the opposition candidate and then switching these ballots for prepared ballots afterwards. There also will be an attempt at Lead Pencil is a group at. In the event of these f the inability to find a . Amputated. This promptly would be a serious matter ported very Low. As this would delay operations in get t As the parties thus arrested set free. This contingency if it Ariest will however now be met. Was re he was re comments were freely made last night said that it was the crowning in government will not tolerate such men As Fred c. Hamilton and t. C. Keenleyside on the commission of the they Are Able to retain on the did not have Cheque marked. Saskatoon sask., july the Law firm of Crusse Tufts failed to Mark their Deposit cheques when making appeals in the two eases of. Be Lee and John Bulmer on appealing against a decision of Selling liquor without a License and the second Naa inst a charge of assaulting a hired Man judge Mclorg dismissed both cases yesterday. An unmarked Cheque is Inch distinguished citizens As w. Vetch and Charles h. Forrester. A leading conservative commenting was not tender As secur to Tor upon the action of the government la it i costs Hazelj. _ of government supporters will their ballots one after the other. The lost one to vote will then carry away the Legal Pencil and substitute an illegal Pencil containing coloured Lead or in some Way making a Mark which would be declared illegal while opposition supporters will then be allowed to cast their ballots one after another for a time using the illegal Pencil. Then a government supporter will again attend to cast his ballot and carry Back the proper Pencil and substitute same for the illegal one after which the government supporters will file in to Mark their ballots. Some of these Means were adopted in Ontario some years ago. I would suggest that a special scrutineer for the opposition be appointed for each polling Booth whose sole duty it should be to keep an Eagle continued on. Free press to give Complete election returns tonight it has become recognized through Long years of experience that the free press is invariably first in Tihe i handling of election returns and the service tonight will be As rapid and accurate As upon former Occa Sions. The free press has made lab Carat arrangements to bulletin the re turns from All Over tha province and no expense has been spared in the consummation of these plans. Realizing that there la not sufficient space in front of the building to accommodate the mighty crowd that will congregate it has been arranged to Havo a duplicate service of bulletins one at the front and the other at the South end of free press Structure. The results will be posted simultaneously at each place. A system of specially prepared bulletin boards will be used for the occasion. Painted upon these Are the names of the various constituencies with a Blank spacs opposite them in which will be placed a red j Star to indicate a Liberal Victory or a Blue Star to indicate a co Serra j Tyve win. These boards will be brilliantly illuminated by electric lights which position above them. In addition to these bulletin boards there will be another Board on which the standing of the parties will be constantly shown. The bulletin service will be augmented toy a machine which will be used a Esbon As darkness sets in to Flash latest news of the ejection upon a screen which will be placed on the Side of the evettes building opposite the free press the free press cartoonists will por tray the humorous features of the Battle As Tihey see it and it wih be of interest to know that or. Pepys has decided to postpone his visit to the mountains in order to set1 Down some of his conceptions of i Manitoba election. The regular Battery of free press Telegraph instruments have been supplanted with others and altogether eight wires will be Strung directly into the editorial rooms for the purposes of receiving the re turns and placing them before the Public in the least possible time. The first reports from the City polls should be received b and 5.30 o clock. During the evening the free press will publish a series of giving the up to the time of going to press. The management of the free press has prepared to staff during the evening. V everybody is invited to join the great throng around the free press offic6. I the editorial office will however closed to Tho up Blip Daprini tha Steamer Cal Marian. Stampalia arabic Venezia. _ Bergens jord or Etc Hymric demonstration of affection and. Esteem and a proof of the sympathy Felt by those present toward the principles which mrs. Mccuing espouses. Announcement raises indignation. Coming right after mrs. Mcclung s stirring just when the crowd was in its most enthusiastic state a. J. Moncrieff stepped Forward and announced perfidy on the part of the Roblin machine. He told the people that the commissions of the Only two Liberal justices of the Pecce in the City had been cancelled. He did not need to explain the significance of this action for the crowd seemed to understand its import at once. There were loud cries of. Shame a Volley of and a storm of Iii sing. Or. Moncrieff those who were willing to offer their services the next Day to Man the polls and protect Tho ballots of the people to remain for Yea Pooi a Short tame after the meeting. Russia a Large number of Earnest men remained according to the and oif Rcd their services to frustrate the designs of the Roblin machine. Statements that went Home. Some of the statements of mrs. My Chung which created a profound in pres Sid on the audience follow. Many of our hearts tonight Are Leavy no doubt because a Young Man has passed out of this world and into the of the men in regard to whom our civilization failed. If poor John Krawchenko had been compelled to attend school when he was a youth in this province per flaps the terrible event of today would never have been they Tell you we have the Best local option Law in Canada. When j. Lived in Manitou we tried to pass a local option Law. The first time we handed in the petition it was on separate sheets and was thrown out of the technicality that while the Law required a petition we had presented several petitions. We tried again and that time we had All the sheets pasted together into a lengthy Roll. This petition was thrown out on the technicality that people who signed in the Middle of it perhaps did not know what they were signing. The Man who discovered these technicalities that podded the petitions was a. J. The Roblin Ite candidate in Centre Winnipeg. It was Yery Clever of him but we want Clever men in the legislature so much As we want tomorrow is the great decision Day i if you have for any form of material gain sold out your manhood you have i been cheated. Even if you had been i promised the whole world you did not get what does it profit a Man to gain the whole world and lose him i self your ballot is ing j tribute from Tom Johnson. The Liberal candidate for Centre Winnipeg Thomas h Johnson appeared on the platform after mrs. Mcclung had finished and paid an trib Ute to her services in. Tlle Campaign. He also declared that when the next provincial elections came around he hoped to be a candidate and to have the pleasure of appealing at that time to female As Well As male electors. He also referred in an impressive manner to the desperate mood of the Roblin machine As shown by their latest act of cancelling the commissions of the last two Liberal justices of the peace in Winnipeg. Or. Johnson was Given one of the most remarkable and enthusiastic ovations that he has received since the Campaign began. F. J. Dixon the Independent progressive candidate for Centre wine Peg also spoke briefly but with great Force and eloquence. His final Appeal to the elec tors to work and vote for the progressive Liberal platform was received with a demonstration that equalled that accorded or. Johnson which is saying much-.-.-. Front the temper Fervour and unanimity oblast night s meeting at the Industrial Bureau it is Safe to say that never Smice the beginning of the political history of Manitoba has a party a the deter mination1 and courage which character Zea the Liberal party As it faces the ast critical Day of the Campaign of 1914. Ocean steamships. Arrived at from Princl Pello is new York at Saskatoon. Saskatoon sask july 9. Saska. Toon s personal Stork made a new rec Ord in ju4e Lor the City there bein4 110. Births the highest total in its his tory. Empress of India Quebec Liverpool Quebec Rotterdam Quebec Gen la new. Libau new sort Boston Naples Bergen i Madera Algiers. Jio Atoa Trieste new Orji a ores passed the Soo. Sault Ste Dilarlo. Ilicli., july Era american andante Caen to is latter Goa Midland King. 101 toll nosh noon Joel Marsala to Weston is Smeaton Delaware Princeton Ina Smith. Norton 7 Leonard Hannab Walter Scran ton 8r30 Denmark Frontenac 1o arc Turivia John betas. .11 Siemens Booth moronic v. Upon Joshua Rhodes Dickson soil an Beli Northern Queen Steinbrenner we. Brown 4 Superior City "6 Selwyn Eddy Victory Odanah 6 Ward Ames Rockfeller Krupp a weather report. The weather report from the meteor Erv Atory at St. John s Colidge i logical Obser Rodmond has upheld the in 1 treating system and the bar As an in at 7 . Yester Day. Maximum ror tie preceding 1 hours minimum barometer Northwest wind. A 3 mites a. Hour. The meteor ologies service weather observations takers at 7 of clock Lasi july. 9, Winnipeg time port Arthur 64 Clear Winnipeg 84 Cieara Minnedosa 84 Clear Quappelle 73 fair Swift current 90 talk Prince Albert. 7c Clear Battleford Clear led Seine hat 90 fair Calgary 80 Clear Edmonton t Lair. The weather in the weat today has been Fine and in most districts very a Linimum and maximum Victoria 52-68 Vancouver 54-76 Kam oops. 56-88 Calgary 48-80 Medicine sat 56-92 Battleford. 54-86 so let current 50 94 Moose Regina. 65-84 Wirmel Peg. 66-90 port Arthur. 48-66 Parry sound 56-84 London 56-86 Toronto to co ;