A man
like that is in a position to do some good, and I hope
Hesketh will get a chance if he stays over here. We'll
soon see how he speaks. He's going to follow Farquharson
at Jordanville on Thursday week."
"I wonder at Farquharson," said his father.
By this time the candidature of Mr Lorne Murchison was
well in the public eye. The Express announced it in a
burst of beaming headlines, with a biographical sketch
and a "cut" of its young fellow-townsman. Horace Williams,
whose hand was plain in every line apologized for the
brevity of the biography--quality rather than quantity,
he said; it was all good, and time would make it better.
This did not prevent the Mercury observing the next
evening that the Liberal organ had omitted to state the
age at which the new candidate was weaned. The Toronto
papers commented according to their party bias, but so
far as the candidate was concerned there was lack of the
material of criticism. If he had achieved little for
praise he had achieved nothing for detraction. There was
no inconsistent public utterance, no doubtful transaction,
no scandalous paper to bring forward to his detriment.
When the fact that he was but twenty-eight years of age
had been exhausted in elaborate ridicule, little more
was available. The policy he championed, however, lent
itself to the widest discussion, and it was instructive
to note how the Opposition press, while continuing to
approve the great principle involved, found material for
gravest criticism in the Government's projected application
of it.
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