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.

Interest increased in the South Fox by-election as its first touchstone, and gathered almost romantically about Lorne Murchison as its spirited advocate.