Haccentuation

From a Canadian Press dispatch covering the provincial election, June 18, 1979:

A “bayman” by birth, Peckford likes to thicken his outport accent when he says:

“I might not talk as fancy as somebody from upalong, but, brudder, dat don’t men I’m not as good as dem.”

Makes you wonder what old-stock Peckford Tories, especially from areas less cosmopolitan than St. John's, would make of the totally spontaneous, not-at-all co-ordinated efforts to make an issue out of a more contemporary party leader's accent.