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APPENDIX A. 
AN UNCLASSIFIED CASE. 
Since the completion of the foregoing essay, the author has located 
a number of cases of legitimate discrepancy, one of which has especial 
interest and is given in this appendix. 
CASE 27. 
The Discrepancy.—B states that D was the candidate of the Liberal 
party for the North Riding at Waterloo in the uncontested election for 
the House of Commons of Canada in November, 1900; C states that at 
this election E, the Conservative candidate, was returned for this riding 
to the House of Commons of Canada. 
Harmonization.—Impossible. 
The Circumstances.—In this riding a bye-election for the House of 
Assembly of the Province of Ontario coincided accidentally with the 
general election for the House of Commons of Canada held in November, 
1900. At this time the majority of the Liberal government in the 
Ontario House of Assembly was so small that the loss of this bye-election 
might have involved its fall. In the Canadian House of Commons, on 
the contrary, the Liberal administration was so strong and its success 
in the general election was so certain, that the result in the one riding 
of North Waterloo was immaterial. The central organization of Con- 
servative party in Ontario agreed to allow the return of D, the Liberal 
candidate in the bye-election for the Assembly, without contest, if the 
Liberal party would permit the return, without contest, of E, the Con- 
servative candidate in the same riding for the general election for the 
House of Commons. To this arrangement, at the request of the central 
organization of the Liberal party, D, though his prospects of election 
were better than E’s, acceded. 
The peculiar interest in this case is that the discrepancy cannot 
be sufficiently classified in any of the categories previously located; and 
it should, therefore, form the starting point for the location of a fresh 
category. 
