St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-19
The D opposed Quebec Premier
Is After Lieut.. Gov. An
gers Scalp.
In Vigorous English, With a
CauStic Pen, He Talks Of
Treaehery.
Mercier Will Expend All He
Possesses to Right the
Wrong.
Mass Meetings to Be Held in
Protest--Preparing for
Trouble.

QUEBEC, Dec. is. - Monster mass
meetings ara being organized by the
Liberals throughout the province. De-
teetlve corps and squads of police are
held in readiness to march 10 Spencer
wood. the official residence of the lieu
tenant governor, to protect it against
any hostile demonstration. The citi-
Zens of st. ROch ana ST. Saw
eur especially are boiling with in
dignatlon. st. Roch is perhaps the
strongest Liberal stronghold in the
dominion. 1t is represented in the
house of commons by Hon. w. Laurier.
Liberal leader, and in the local house
by Hon. Mr.. Sheyhn, ex-provincaI
treasurer. Both these gentlemen and
MIR. MERCER are idolized by st. Roeh's
people. Mr.. Mercier has made public
his views on e-political situation and
published correspondence between HIM
self and the lieutenant governor and
the interim report of the royal commits
sioners. The report contains about
5000 words and is signed only by Judges
Baby and Davidson. The report regrets
that certain correspondence was not
produced, and concludes that ii is not
proved that Mr.. Mercier knew of the
existence of bargain between Arm
strong and Pacaud, and that gentleman
declares that he benefited in no way
thereby. Then follows
Mercier7s Final Reply
to Lieut.. Gov. Anglers, in which he
says: Il have to do. not with an Impair
tial head of the executive, but with a
political adversary subjected to the out
side influence of evil cOunselloTs and
bad passions. You have knowingly
and willingly violated the usages and
constitutional law; you have had the
audaclty to do what our august SOver-
eign Queen Victoria would never have
dared to do in England without pro-
voking revolution among the
English people. All good citizens
must admit that there is limit to tyr
amy and man, though he may have
been prime minister, is not a slave.
The report is that of two partiSanS
from whom you have dragged an unjust
and unfOunded opinion, and it is alto
gether informal and without legal
value. The allegations of this pretend
ed preliminary report are contrary to
the proof. They cOnta in gratuitOus in
suits TO your eX-miniSters, supported by
the great majority of the legislature of
this province.
''Mr. MERCER charges the governor
with personal and autocratIc govern
ment, with having arrested the working
of the government; with having refused
TO call the legislature at the request of
its majority to transact public business,
and with having carried out one of the
most OdiOuS cOnSpiIacieS ever entered
into against the constitutional liberties
enjoyed by free people. He
Taunts the Governor
with desire to place power in the
hands of political friends. against all the
rules of decency and professional ETH
quette, and trampling under foot the
dignity of the crown. MIR. Mercier then
discusses the constitutional side Of the
question, referring to Lord Dufferin in
the Pacific scandal, who laid the matter
before parliament, and he charges the
governor with supporting the then
guilty ministers, and today he says you
obey the will of the federal prime min
lister, Mr.. Abbott. who was himself the
distributor of this bribery money to the
ministry.
Your conduct puts our political in
situations in jeopardy. l will try tOundO
your nefariOuS work with the assistance
of my colleagues and my political
friends, and will willingly eXpend all
that L possess to save our cherished
province. | denounce you before pub
lie opinion, and the time is not far dis
tant when the representatives of the
people will again resume the
power of which you have stripped
them, and vindicate the constitution
which you have broken. You will
shortly receive from Mr. Abbott, your
master, the price of your national
treachery, and l shall soon go before
the people and receive from its strong
and powerful hands a new mandate
which will enable me 10 resume in the
legislature the position from which you
have driven me, and to chase you, CON
stituti0nalY, but surely, from Spencer
WoOd.'