It was clamors such as these, so Senator Gruff told Richard, that made silence a work of weariness.
"Now I thought," observed Richard, "that Mr.Bayard talked wisely upon silver and gold the evening of the dinner.

Why wouldn't it be well to talk to the people in the same manner even if one did not adopt the theories expressed?
Let Senator Hanway clearly announce his views and give his reasons.

The latter should defend him with thinking men." "Thinking men," retorted Senator Gruff with an experienced smile, "are in a hopeless minority.

Talk reason to the public?
One might as well talk reason to the winds.

Politics, as a science, is not addressed to the intelligence but to the ignorance of men." Senator Hanway, after sundry conferences with Senator Gruff and others, offered the resolution asking for a committee to meet with the Ottawa government on the matter of that Georgian Bay-Ontario Canal.