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interviewer; Is it true that the Liberal Party would send up its liquor one weekend on the train, and the next week the Conservatives would be sending theirs up?
Mr. Judd;"Oh, yes, oh yes, they had, but of course they had arranged with the hotel keepers for to supply the polls, you see. And there was always a kickback some way or another, if not in one way, then in an indirect way, they'd be paid for it."
interviewer; Did many people switch their allegiance back and forth, from party to party, maybe as the liquor supplies were more or less plentiful?
Mr. Judd; "Well, at one time, a bottle of liquor bought a lot of votes, but the time has come now, you give 'em the liquor, and they vote however in the hell they like."

interviewer; Because you don't have to stand up and declare your vote. The liquor was in the days, I understand, when people had to stand up on the platform and declare his vote.
Mr. Judd;"You'd just walk through the door, and I'll vote for this man, and I'll vote for that. And if the returning officer was a Conservative, ... they'd all be Conservative votes. Just put them down as all Conservative, you see. But when it came to the sealed ballot, the closed ballot, that was a different thing."
interviewer; Do you remember the declaratory votes?
Mr. Judd;"No, I don't. That was before my time."
interviewer; It would take a pretty brave man, though, to give his allegiance to one party when there were a crowd of the others around, I guess.
Mr. Judd; "Well, I know, he had to watch himself; that's what started many a fights at the polls."
interviewer; Maybe you'd choose your time well, when not many people would be around?
Mr. Judd; "That's right, that's right."