Public men and public life in Canada; the story of the Canadian confederacy, being recollections of Parliament and the press and embracing a succinct account of the stirring events which led to the confederation of British North America into the Dominion of Canada . t con-stantly wreathed in good-natured smiles, hisaudiences were often convulsed with laughter by hisdroll and humorous hits and sallies. The Hon. Mr. Foley was also a very able platformspeaker, witty as well as eloquent, with the happyIrish faculty of gettingthe laugh upon his oppon-ent. He made an energeticfight, and his new Con-
Public men and public life in Canada; the story of the Canadian confederacy, being recollections of Parliament and the press and embracing a succinct account of the stirring events which led to the confederation of British North America into the Dominion of Canada . t con-stantly wreathed in good-natured smiles, hisaudiences were often convulsed with laughter by hisdroll and humorous hits and sallies. The Hon. Mr. Foley was also a very able platformspeaker, witty as well as eloquent, with the happyIrish faculty of gettingthe laugh upon his oppon-ent. He made an energeticfight, and his new Con-servative friends did theirbest to assist him, but hissudden change of polit-ical position made it al-most impossible for himto succeed in carryingNorth Waterloo at thattime, and the stirring con-test resulted in his defeatby a majority of 163. Long years afterwards, when residing in the cityof Hamilton as the sheriff of Wentworth, Mr. Mc-Kellar told me a capital story of his colleague, , the embryo Premier of the Dominion,which occured at the village of St. Jacobs duringthis election, and which, so far as I know, has neverbefore appeared in print. They had held a meeting in the village the pre-vious evening, and sometime during the night the 203. Hon. Arch. McKell.^r. PUBLIC MEN AND PUBLIC LIFE IN CANADA inmates of the hotel at which they stopped werearoused by a small but noisy party of Conservativecanvassers from the county town. It was not till to-wards morning that the racket ceased and sleepbecame possible. Mr. Mackenzie was then, as after-wards, an early riser, and when he came downstairsat six oclock , he found a roaring fire in the bigbox stove in the hall, but not a soul stirring about—the hostler, who had kindled the fire, having gone tothe stables to attend to the horses. At the samemoment his eyes alighted upon what appeared to bea large bundle of newspapers carefully tied up. Onexamination, however, this proved to be a rabidpolitical campaign she
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