September 5, 1867

STANDOFF IN BOWMANVILLE

A standoff between Prime Minister John A. Macdonald and George Brown dragged on for hours yesterday at the West Durham nomination meeting in Bowmanville.

Electors gathered at the drill shed in the town at 12:30 pm for the purposes of nominating candidates for the House of Commons and Legislative Assembly of Ontario. After opening remarks from returning officer Robert Armour, the meeting ground to a standstill as the Conservatives and Liberals each urged the other to speak first while refusing themselves to speak.

The opening standoff lasted upwards of an hour while the prime minister waited for George Brown to which Brown said he had attended the meeting as a spectator only and would speak only if he heard something that demanded a reply.

The standoff resumed following the conclusion of the nomination part of the meeting when once again Macdonald refused all entreaties, including a resolution adopted by the meeting and the appointment of a deputation to urge him to speak, waiting for Brown to take the stage first to which Brown is reported to have said to the assembled electors, “You, gentlemen, have been told here to-day by the Conservative speakers that I am a killed candidate — a dead man. But I never in all my life before heard of a Prime Minister being frightened to face a dead man.”

Eventually, both men addressed the meeting, first Brown, then Macdonald, and the meeting dispersed at 8:15 pm, following cheers for the Queen.

Edward Blake (Liberal) and John Milne (Conservative) will stand for the Commons. William Martin (Conservative) and John McLeod (Liberal) will stand for the Ontario Assembly.

BRITISH PARLIAMENT PROROGUED

The Parliament of the United Kingdom has been prorogued. In her prorogation speech, Queen Victoria made reference to the Dominion of Canada:

The act for the union of the British North American Provinces is the final accomplishment of a scheme long contemplated, whereby those colonies, now combined in one dominion may be expected not only to gain additional strength for the purposes of defence against external aggression, but may be united among themselves by fresh ties of mutual interest, and attached to the mother country by the only bonds which can effectually secure such important dependencies — those of loyalty to the Crown and attachment to British connection.

CAMERON TO STAND IN NORTH ONTARIO

Fresh off his election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Hon. Matthew Crooks Cameron (Provincial Secretary and Registrar) has been nominated to stand for the House of Commons in North Ontario. It had been previously reported that the writ for this riding was being withheld in the event that Cameron was unsuccessful in his provincial bid in Toronto.

EXCURSION TO NEW YORK CITY PLANNED

A trip to New York City is being organized by Mr. R. Arnold with a plan to depart Toronto on September 10. Excursionists will travel to New York City via the Erie Railway. Tickets are $11 return for twenty-one days.

DAILY ELECTION REPORT

Partial Results

NEW BRUNSWICK

Northumberland (NB) - None reported

Final Results

ONTARIO

NORTH WENTWORTH

House of Commons

• Alexander Brown 1093
• James McMonies (Liberal) 1154 ELECTED

Ontario Legislature

• Robert Christie (Liberal) 1139 ELECTED
• Dr. Miller (Conservative) 1119

Halton

House of Commons

• G. K. Chisholm 1289
• John White (Liberal) 1422 ELECTED

Ontario Legislature

• William Barber (Liberal) 1556 ELECTED
• W. J. S. Kerr (Conservative) 1192

South Lanark

Ontario Legislature

• J. Laurie — withdrew 2
• William Shaw (Conservative) 1294 ELECTED
• Abraham Code (Liberal) 791
• Col. Andrew William Playfair — withdrew 0

Monck

House of Commons

• Mr. Fraser 871
• Lachlin McCallum (Liberal-Conservative) 1126 ELECTED

Ontario Legislature

• A. Morse (Liberal) 875
• George Secord (Conservative) 1118 ELECTED

DAILY NOMINATION REPORT

North Victoria

House of Commons

• Mr. Cameron
• John Morrison (Liberal)

Ontario Legislature

• Alexander Cockburn (Liberal)
• Joseph Staples (Conservative)

West Durham

House of Commons

• W. A. Loacks (withdrew to support Milne)
• H. Munro (withdrew to support Blake)
• Edward Blake (Liberal)
• John Milne (Conservative)

Ontario Legislature

• Edward Blake (Liberal) (withdrew, allowing that this nomination was for the purpose of providing him an opportunity of reply to Milne’s nomination speech)
• W. Martin (Conservative)
• John McLeod (Liberal)
• John Milne (withdrew)
• Donald Bethune

North Ontario

House of Commons

• Hon. Matthew Crooks Cameron (Provincial Secretary and Registrar, Ontario) (Conservative)
• John Hall Thompson (Liberal)

Ontario Legislature

• Malcolm Gillespie (Liberal)
• Thomas Paxton (Conservative)