To The Electors of Charlotte County. GENTLEMEN: For reasons which I do not know, Parliament has been dissolved before the expiration of the term for which you elected me four years ago. Your County must be represented in Parliament, (1887)

Broadside has some light creasing and two folds. The edgers have some small nicks & tears. There is a bite out of the bottom corner not affecting the text [text continues] 'the Liberal Party wish me to be their standard bearer, and I have accepted the nomination. . . . Had you known that in nineteen years after we entered Confederation our national debt would be more than twice as much per head as the national debt of the people of the United Sates, I think you would have hesitated to enter the Union. ……. Yours respectfully, A. H. Gillmor. St. George, 27th January, 1887." Arthur Hill Gillmor (March 12, 1824 – April 13, 1903) was a Canadian farmer, lumberman and Liberal politician from New Brunswick. Mr. Gillmor sat in New Brunswick's House of Assembly for five terms, and gained a reputation for integrity. The last of these mandates was as provincial secretary in Albert James Smith's government, which had run on a platform opposing Confederation. When the Smith government was defeated in the 1866 election, Gillmor left politics for a time to concentrate on business. After Confederation, he represented the riding of Charlotte, New Brunswick in the House of Commons of Canada from 1874 to 1896. He was a strong candidate for the office of Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick in 1899, being strongly endorsed by his former political opponents as well as supporters, but did not secure the appointment. He was subsequently appointed Canadian commissioner to the World's Fair at Paris. He was appointed to the Senate by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1900, where he served until his death in 1903, when he died on a train in Mattawamkeag, Maine while en route to Ottawa after a return trip to his hometown of St. George. Mr. Gillmor is buried in the St. George Rural Cemetery, in St. George, New Brunswick.