Even the Eagle Eye Breakfast Food was well represented.
After the orchestra had finished a selection, Mr.Hopkins rose to make the first argument and was greeted with cheers.
"We are having a jolly campaign, my dear friends," he began; "but you musn't take it altogether as a joke; because, while Mr.Forbes's erratic views and actions have done little real harm, we have been educated to an appreciation of certain benefits we enjoy which otherwise might have escaped our attention.
"This is a progressive, strenuous age, and no section of the country has progressed more rapidly than this, the Eighth District of our great and glorious State.

I may say without danger of contradiction that the people I have the honor to represent in the State Legislature, and expect to have the honor of representing the next term, are the most intelligent, the most thoughtful and the most prosperous to be found in any like district in the United States.

(Cheers.) Who, then, dares to denounce them as fools?
Who dares interfere with these liberties, who dares intrude uninvited into their premises and paint out the signs they have permitted to occupy their fences and barns and sheds?
Who would do these things but an impertinent meddler who is so inexperienced in life that he sets his own flimsy judgment against that of the people ?" The orator paused impressively to wait for more cheers, but the audience was silent.

In the outskirts of the crowd a faint hissing began to be heard.

It reached the speaker's ear and he hurriedly resumed the oration.
"I do not say Mr.Forbes is not a good citizen," said he, "but that he is misguided and unreasonable.