The choice of a member really fell into too few hands; the electorate as a whole was not sufficiently interested.

Nevertheless, several able men came into our ranks, and under the conditions it was not possible to utilize their talents fully, as they would have been utilized had we been in opposition, not in support of the Government.

More could have been done, however, to give them their opportunity, and the responsibility for not varying the list of speakers rests on Redmond.

It was his policy to avoid personal intervention, and to leave such choices to be settled by proposals from the party itself.

This was a real limitation to his excellence as leader--for leader he was.
There was, however, an even more important limitation arising out of his personal temperament.