Mr. Brady arrived at Sutton Junction, the night operator,
O'Regan, was asleep, but he did not hesitate to call him up, and
deprive him of two or three hours' rest, notwithstanding the fact
that on the first of July, when he refused to allow the night
operator, Ireland, to work for me so as to permit of my going to
Montreal to attend the National Prohibition Convention, the
reason he gave was that night operators required their days to
rest to insure efficient service during the night. But in this
case he breaks up the rest of a night operator in order to secure
this statement from O'Regan.

"Mr. Tait says I was asleep when assaulted. This I do not deny,
but he knows his operators all sleep more or less during the
night, when they understand the position of their trains. Every
railway man knows this. But why are these matters brought before
the public now? Why was I not allowed a hearing by the officers
of the Company? If a collision occurs on the line, or other
serious things occur, the parties concerned are given a chance to
clear themselves. If men get drunk and damage the Company's
property, they are given a hearing, and in many cases they resume
work. But all this was denied me. There must have been a reason
for this; it must be because Mr. Tait really understood the whole
matter thoroughly, as he says in his letter, 'This
correspondence' (referring to these later charges) 'is
insignificant,' and especially as he has said to a _Witness_
reporter, and published in the _Witness_ of July 11th: 'I have no
proof that Mr. Smith has violated the confidence of the Company.'
No, my serious offence was, as Mr. Tait states, 'the taking in
public an active part on either side of such moot questions as I
have referred to.'

"Mr. Tait also stated that this rule applies to questions of
politics. Now, if the same rule applied to temperance as applies
to politics, I would still be in my position as agent of the
Canadian Pacific Railway at Sutton Junction, for during the last
general elections the Company would have allowed me to move
heaven and earth, if possible, to elect their candidate, which we
did through their wire pulling. I don't wonder people say the
Canadian Pacific Railway runs the government, but they cannot run
the Brome County Alliance