Purity was much too rampant for that, and the means of detection too well understood.

But purity was to be carried much further than this.

There should be no treating; no hiring of two hundred voters to act as messengers at twenty shillings a day in looking up some four hundred other voters; no bands were to be paid for; no carriages furnished; no ribbons supplied.

British voters were to vote, if vote they would, for the love and respect they bore to their chosen candidate.

If so actuated, they would not vote, they might stay away; no other inducement would be offered.
So much was said loudly--very loudly--by each party; but, nevertheless, Mr Moffat, early in these election days, began to have some misgivings about the bill.