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 . village, in the field asMr. Foleys opponent, and a very exciting electionresulted. The Postmaster-General was assisted bytwo of his fellow-ministers, Messrs. Gait andDArcy McGee, who, however, only attended a few meetings; Mr. Bowman,by Messrs. Mackenzie andMcKellar, who held meet-ings in all the principalparts of the riding. As I
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 . village, in the field asMr. Foleys opponent, and a very exciting electionresulted. The Postmaster-General was assisted bytwo of his fellow-ministers, Messrs. Gait andDArcy McGee, who, however, only attended a few meetings; Mr. Bowman,by Messrs. Mackenzie andMcKellar, who held meet-ings in all the principalparts of the riding. As I was asked to takepart at some of the meet-ings, I became wellacquainted with the twolatter gentlemen. Theyappeared at many meet-ings together, and were decidedly the best-in-Hon. Mackenzie. f^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ thorough and successful political stumpers I had everheard up to that time. Both were then in theprime of life, evidently manly men, and quite un-ostentatious, but possessed of great energy of mindand body. Both were fair debaters, which too manystumpers are not, and discussed political questionson their merits, but the opponent who found himselfsandwiched in between the two at a public meetingsoon discovered he had got into a very tight place. 202. THE UNION DOOMED—DEADLOCK AGAIN Mr. Mackenzie occasionally indulged in a little dry,Scotch humour, but Mr. McKellar possessed a greatfund of humour of a broader character, and as hishandsome face, when speaking, was almost 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, an
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