And to think that we might have put new life into the party! Bah!" Conservative canvassers did not fail to make use of thee fact that Mr.
Welwyn-Baker had always been regardful of the poor.

His alms-houses were so pleasantly situated and so tastefully designed that many Polterham people wished they were for lease on ordinary terms.

The Infirmary was indebted to his annual beneficence, and the Union had to thank him--especially through this past winter--for a lightening of its burden.

Aware of these things, Lilian never felt able to speak harshly against the old Tory.

In theory she acknowledged that the relief of a few families could not weigh against principles which enslaved a whole population (thus Quarrier put it), but her heart pleaded for the man who allayed suffering at his gates; and could Mr.Chown have heard the admissions she made to Welwyn-Baker's advocates, he would have charged her with criminal weakness, if not with secret treachery.