ANGLIN AND TURGEON

Year
1880
Month
9
Day
18
Article Title
ANGLIN AND TURGEON
Page Number
2
Article Type
Language
Article Contents
“A Witness,” who describes in the Moniteur Acadien the recent meeting between Mr. Anglin and M. Turgeon, at Tracadie, says: “M. Turgeon refuted the arguments of Mr. Anglin with reference to the taxes on salt, sugar, etc; etc; spoke in favor of the Conservative Government; demonstrated the advantages of the National Policy, the benefits which it had already obtained for the country; and pledged the electors of Tracadie to support the Conservative party, which possessed more sympathy for the French Acadians than the Liberal party. After a discourse which was received with applause, three cheers were given for Sir Leonard Tilley, the National Policy and Mr. Turgeon.” The Chatham Advance paints a different picture of the meeting altogether, and declares that Mr. Turgeon made a sorry exhibition of himself altogether. The writer, however, does not profess to have been present, nor does he disclose the authority on which he relies. It is admitted, however, even by the Advance, that an opponent of Mr. Anglin was chosen to preside over the meeting, and that Mr. Anglin was compelled, by the clamor for Mr. Turgeon, to pause after a couple of hours and allow his rival a chance to reply. The Advance also makes another curious admission, namely, that Mr. Anglin’s closing speech contained only one allusion to Mr. Turgeon’s! Is this to be accounted for by the fact that the latter spoke in French, or by the supposition that Mr. Anglin could not, without time to cook statistics and prepare sophisms, reply to his arguments in a plausible way? Perhaps our Miramichi contemporary will tell us about it.