It was for that reason that Bingham and the rest strongly advised Lorne not to spend too much of the day in the town, but to get out to Moneida early, and drive around with Ormiston--stick to him like a fly to poison-paper.
"You leave Elgin to your friends," said Bingham.

"Just show your face here and there wearing a smile of triumph, to encourage the crowd; but don't worry about the details--we'll attend to them." "We can't have him upsettin' his own election by any interference with the boys," said Bingham to Horace Williams.

"He's got too long a nose for all kinds of things to be comfortable in town today.

He'll do a great deal less harm trotting round the Reserve braced up against old Ormiston." So Elgin was left to the capable hands of the boys, for the furtherance of the Liberal interest and the sacred cause of imperialism.

Mr Farquharson, whose experience was longer and whose nose presumably shorter than the candidate's, never abandoned the Town Ward.