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magistrate for two of them and and lawyer for four and But was the prize the year a man who missed out being the first reeve 10 years ago could make his mark on history It was Confederation year and the first general election for a reeve Other years the post was filled by the village council electing one of its own Dr Hunter had been away to the US that fall some said to buy a medical practice in a big city But he showed up again before election time arriving back in town by train SERVING YORK SINCE The magistrates declined to act unless they were given the detectives report to work with and- when council refused they refused to act The committee was dissolved 111 Then the dickering among the Reformers for everybody in village politics in those days belonged to the Reform party got underway And when it all came out in the wash nomination night heres how it went NOMINATION NIGHT Nomination night was a cold snowy Dec 28 in the Hall on Timothy St and it was crowded Most of the property owners eligible to vole were there Nominations were held both mens names were entered and then Alfred spoke He told the crowd no had been reeve for the past few years and had done a good job He said if the electors were satisfied they wouldnt want to see things changed He pointed out during his 1 term as reeve a place for the Agricultural Society fair had been assured a neat and commodious engine house had been erected and sidewalks had been kept in repair all without a tax increase LONGTIME FRIENDS Then Dr Hunter arose and after a short review of his service on council offered an ex planation why he was opposing a man who had been a longtime friend he said had asked him to run and promised not to oppose him and the silence in Mechanics hall was deafening Hunter said he had therefore dropped plans to move to the US although he had already bought and furnished a house in Chicago and decided to run Then he said changed his mind explaining he planned to run for the Legislature some day and felt he should keep his name before the people The doctor said he then called a meeting of his supporters of previous elections and tried to back out in favor of his friend but they would have none of it So the little meeting all Reformers decided that two mutual friends from each camp plus a chosen by the first four would select the can didate Dr Hunter told the nomination meeting the party agreed to this and set Monday night for the meeting at Die Forsyth House But Monday morning he charged lawyer issued a flyer announcing his candidacy Such a betrayal of confidence could not account for All that could be done had been done to avoid the necessity of this context he lamented 1 even offered to give way would and let a third friend be chosen In fact was prepared to pursue any honorable course to avoid a personal conflict with that gentleman This raised quite a rumpus in the little hall ami no sooner had Dr regained his seat than Alfred was on his feet demanding an opportunity for rebuttal Clerk E Irwin chairman of the meeting granted it and said this much was he had met Hunter upon the doctors return from the US and he had asked him if he planned to be a candidate for reeve Hunter said the lawyer told him he had no intention of standing as he had already fur nished the house in Chicago and planned to move there immediately FRIENDS ADVISE Friends then advised him to run and he decided he would said and the day after that he again met Hunter and told him so Hunter replied he had changed his mind and wanted to run too And as for the meeting of friends said lawyer Boultbee it was rigged- All four were new to the Reform party and could not be con sidered as any indication of the views or feelings of the party He wanted no part of that compromise So the fat was in the fire Both men nominated Voting day was Jan 1867 and that election campaign continued the whole nine days the way it had started It was perhaps the most exciting election ever held in Newmarket wrote Era editor Jackson who was himself one of four elected village councillors There was much angry feeling displaying itself while friendships and tics of years of intimacy and even business relations wero ruthlessly severed MOT ELECTION Stories the most wicked and slanderous the most reprehensible were invented regarding the candidates for reeveship Bribery and coercion we have been lead to believe followed in their train Dr Hunter won polling votes to Mr and what had turned the tables on the incumbent reeve was an electionmorning fluke Dr Hunter had been found early election morning lying dazed in a snow hank smeared with blood The attempt on the morning of the polling by some cowardly swine to take Dr Hunters life largely arousing the sympathy of the public gave an advantage to the friends of the latter that contributed in no small degree to decide this controversy reported editor Jackson The villagers were shocked angered and some were incredulous Rumors began to fly nasty rumors Dr Hunter hired a detective from the at torneygenerals office to hunt his assailant and offered reward for information On Jan the village council with Alfred Boultbee in the chair for the last time voted to pay the detectives bill and doubled the reward REPORT BACKFIRED The detectives report came to council the next week and for Dr Hunter who by then was reeve it backfired He took strong exception to its implication that the assault had been a fraud and asked council to appoint the three village magistrates Donald Sutherland John and Smith as a committee of enquiry before the report was made public The reeve said he could prove the detectives report in correct looked like the whole thing was ready to fizzle out at last Then the bombshell landed Two provincial detectives arrived in town from Toronto and arrested one Jolm Mosier a man Dr Hunter had known since boyhood and an employee of one of Hunters staunchest supporters was charged with the assault IS I I At the trial it came out that three doctors had been called that election morning by panicky neighbors to examine the Dr Hunter AW had examined r the victim found no injury but on hearing his explanation accepted the story that he had been struck across the back of the himself testified he could not identify as his assailant and knew of no reason why the man should strike him but did little else to clear him TRIAL DRAGGED ON I The trial dragged on day after day in the Mechanics hall before the truth came out i Mosier had nothing to do with the event Another citizen had killed several chickens early that election morning and allowed the blood to drip along Timothy St as he carried them downtown He met Hunter It was about 6 am and they were alone on the street A passing remark turned into a conspiracy when the doctor willingly lay down in the snow while his supposed assailant smeared him I with chicken blood Although there the matter was allowed to die it was not forgotten No further criminal charges were pressed and Dr James Hunter retained his although he was never re- a elected to the post Years later during hearing of a protest against the election of J AH as Member of Parliament for North York being held in the Mechanics Dr Hunter was called to give evidence- Just as he was about to take the oath a i chicken was thrown from the audience and dropped at his feet i i