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Show ELECTIONS I One of the Candidates H is Pelted With Rotten Eggs Montreal, Sept. 21. Dispatches jH from all over tho Dominion Indicate H one of tho largest votos over cast at H a general election In Canada. Work- ' M ers for both parties were early in the H field and, long before tho hour of tho H opening of the polls, long lines of vot- fl ore stood, eager to cast their ballots M for or against reciprocity. This wa3 j particularly true in Montreal, Toron- 1 M to, Hamilton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Hall- IH fax and the larger cities. IH Tho interest in the rural districts B was-not Icss-keent than that in-4.ho i H centers-of population, and It is on the jJ farmer vote that the government Is M chiefly depending. From all points H came the report that tho election was 'H proceeding quietly and orderly. H One of the closing Incidents of tho H campaign was the mobbing of Henri M Bourassa, leader of the Quebec Na M tionallsts, at St. Hyaclnthe, Quebec. H where he was billed to speak last H night A crowd of about 2,000 per- H sons waylaid him on his arrival ami H pelted him with stale eggs and H I stones, ruining his clothes, but do- jl f lng no other damage. The Incident IH ij supposed to be In retaliation for M the hooting ofSlr Wilfrid Laurler In H Montreal by a crowd of Bourassa sym- H pathlzors tho night before. St Hya- H clnthe is tho district now represented (H ' bv Bourassa In tho provincial parlla- M nient, and it was supposed to be solid H for tho Nationalists. jH Arrests Being Made. M Winnipeg, Sopt 21. Wan-ants wero H sworn out last night for tho arrest H of four of the most active workers H In tho Conservative organization and H ' two, Dusty Holden and Charles Gorrl, IH a ll'censo "inspector under the Roblln jH government are under arrest today MH Holden is charged in the warrant H with personation at a recent registm- H tion. Tho accusation Is that he reg- H Istered in poll No. 12 Inn South Win- H nepeg aB .lohn A. Veltch. The charro H against Gerrl Is that of inciting per- H sonatlon at today's election. W. W. H Veltch and M. J. Johnstone, a llconso IH Inspector for Manitoba, aro tho othera H for whom warrants were issned. IH The Liberals later caused tho arreat H of twelve mon at a North Winnipeg H polling place, charged with "personat- IH lug " " All were put in jail awaiting jH bail. jH |