51 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER. 1871
HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] The fact was, that every gentleman in Charlottetown knew that Mr. Sullivan,
in looking over the Poll Books,—as he had a right to do—first deserved their defeats.
The disservices made, took everybody by surprise; but the hon. member would try to
make it appear that the whole afair was a Confederate dodge! [...]
1871 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER. 57
[
Mr. McMILLAN]
All I
now about the matter is, that when Judge Hensley accepted a seat on the Bench, the
Liberals wanted a leader, and I think that our own ranks did not furnish one under
whom I would be more willing to act, than the Hon. Attorney General, if he would only
keep out of Confederation. [...]
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PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER. 1871
Hon. LEADER OF THE GOVERNMENT [...]
A great many
people had been led to believe that a railroad
meant Confederation, and that the present
Government were not to be trusted with its
construction; but those who had been imposed upon, had been politically duped. He
had
only the other day heard a member of the
Opposition say that he looked upon the Hon.
Attorney General as the man whom he would
like to see leader of the Opposition. He had
invited him to come over to the Government
side ofthe House, and he believed the hon.
member would yet do so. Although that hon.
member was at a meeting held at the Linkletter Road where the railroad was opposed,
yet a majority of his constituents would support it. The people of the Linkletter
Road
were close to a good shipping place, and that
was the reason why they were careless about
the Railroad.