Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-10

cliffe during the early evening to learn
personally the patients condition. The
encouragement with an aide-de-camp
walked over to make his last nightly
visit. The end came at 1890.
| Sir John lost consciousness thirty
hours before his DEATH and his life was
only prolonged by his wonderful vital
| ity. AT 10 P. NJ a complete collapse set
in. In the succeeding few minutes the
Premier's breathing became more and
more labored, and only the slightest
fiu:ter of the heart indicated life's pres
ence. At 1915 the Premier gave a few
long, heavy inspirations and, without a
struggle or the slightest evidence of
pain, passed away.
When the announcement of Sir
Johns death was made the bells of the
| City were tOlled to convey the 1ntelli-
gence to the thousands who were anx-
iously awaiting this signal that their be-
loved Premier was no more.
| Sir John Alexander Macdonald, prime
minister of Canada, has been prominent
and much of the time a leading figure III
Canadian politics for over forty years.
He was educated at the grammar school
in Kingston, and called to the bar in 1895,
when 20 years of age. His political career
began in 1874, when he was elected as q
Conservative to represent Kingston in the
Parliament Of Upper Canada (OntariO}.
In 1917 he was appointed receiver
general and member of the executive
council, and before the close OF that year
became commissioner of crown lands.
In 1850 he was retired from Office by the in
coming of the e-Baldwin-Hincks
reform ministry, which remained IN power
until September, 1854, when the dit1lculty
in regard to the reservation of lands for
the Protestant clergy and other ques-
tons caused its defeat. 4 coali-
ton government succeeded, in which
Macdonald became attOrney-general, but
itwas three years later defeated on a mo-
ton cOndemning the choice of Ottawa as
the sea- OF government OF the old province
OF Canada, and the MacdOnald-Cartier
ministry resigned. 1t was then that Sir
Edmund Head, the governor-general,
grit leader and editor of the To-
rontO GlObe) to form ministry.
which he did. but within two days,
without being given the right OF an appeal
to the country, to which he was entitled,
his ministry was voted out of office and
Macdonald again assumed the reins of pow
Ell. This was what is known as the cele-
bTated ''dOuble shuff1e,' which caused
great excitement throughout Canada thirty
years ago, marked Sir Edmund Head as
neither wise nor patriotic governor, and
was utterly discredltable to both Head and
Macdonald.
The Macdonald Cartier regime was elm
stated and remained in power till 1862,
when he resigned ON account of defeat on
the militia bill. He resumed office two
years later in Sir E. P. Tache's ministry,
and in 1869 assumed the premiership, con-
tinning as such until November, 1873 after
the ''Pac &C scandal" when he resigned,
remaining out of office five years, but be-
ing recalled and forming new ministry
in 1878.
Macdonald presided at the meetings in
London for conference with the Imperial
government in 1866 on the terms of Cana
dian confederation, and was knighted in
1861, being honored with the doctors de-
gree by Oxford University the same year.
He was the greatest political leader Cana
Ga has ever had.