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Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Well, you and I don’t think alike. J. Cyril Sinnott: Refer that question to the Minister.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: No, the Minister will talk later. Now, prob- ably before I get any farther there is one thing that I forgot to do when I was con- gratulating everybody, I was interested and so enthused and overjoyed in all the work that was going on the Island here I t kind of taken away. But one thing I should do, the Premier is not here, I shoud congratulate him on his victory. He did a wonderful job and he did it clean, and that is more than some people can say. I would also like to congratulate all the Cabinet Ministers; I think we have a wonderful group. Where is that eleventh Member?

Well now, back in the Special Session the man from First Queens, I don't know whether he is senior or junior, if it is size he would be senior, but anyway he took nearly all the time that we were here in the Special Session to find out if the tenth man was sworn in. He said that he was and so on and so forth: well now, if there are ten sworn in there is eleven now and where is he at, I can’t see him.

h J. Cyril Sinnott: That is Minister McKickham; he doesn’t have a seat in the ouse.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: And now Mr. Landslide, if you have a question to ask me anytime, you stand up and I will sit down, and I won't be like the man from Second Prince that wouldn’t answer any questions at all. I am awftu glad that the Leader is here now, I must tell him some of the things that went on in the First District of Prince in our campaign. It has been bothering me a long spell the way they run their campaign up there and I just got to tell what went on.

They were both bought by welfare, they were both bought by oats. They went out and they promised oats, and they bought oats and the taxpayers money on Prince Edward Island paid for the oats. It wasn’t coming out of their own fund, it was coming out of the taxpayers money from Prince Edward Island. Contradict it over there some of you, if you want to.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: How can you buy votes with oats?

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: I will tell you just how they do it. They prom- ised one poor lady, and I will say that she needed the oats. (Laughter) Now before I get into this too far, I might say that the man that ran against me was one of the finest gentleman that ever was and the other man was a fairly fine man too.

Some Member: Mr. Speaker, if he'd keep quiet I could tell some stories too.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Well, good, Sir; you spoke. you had the privil- ege to tell the stories because you told everything else that there was nothing to (Laughter) Well, anyway they went down and they said, if you will vote for R. & R., R. & R. we will get you some oats. How much oats is it going to take to plant that field? Well now, she says I will have to have fourteen bushels of oats, I will have to have fourteen bushels of oats. Well now, R. & R. said allright; if you vote for us. we will get you the oats. so 10 and behold two days after election, she calls me up and she said, well R. dz R. were defeated, too bad, she didn’t t her oats. She called me up and she wanted to know what I could do for her, for er to get her oats. I said, now listen Mrs. I never promised you oats. I never bought any votes with oats or hay or anything else. You go to R. & R. that promised you the oats, and she said all- right. So 10 and behold, night came and there was a Conservative friend of mine, I don’t know how he votes, he used to vote Conservative, I don't know whether he does now or not, and he calls me up and he says, look R. was here looking for fourteen bushels of oats and he said that the Government would pay me for it. He says, I wouldn’t give it to him, so I just called you up to see if I knew all about it. But any- way, do you notice how quiet they are? The know the story, they know the story. It's all right for them to blow and criticize w en they have no proof, but I have the troof and that is why they are not contradicting. Well, lo and behold a few da s after

e got the oats he bought it from a man named George Irvin. And shortly r Mr. Irvin got his cheque for $15.00; oats was $1.00 per bushel but I guess the other dollar was for interest I think, but anyway he got a cheque for $15.00 for his oats. Now

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