The latter part of Mr. Lloyd Eleorge'a speech was taken
up with an impassioned analysis of his own virtues, which we dare not attempt to condense, but must give verbatim
"Allow me to say one thing when I am talking of the motives that move politicians. There is a little land amongst the mountains of the west of this island. I would not barter one heart-beat of the devoted loyalty of those people to me, not for all the wealth that the City of London can command. We all have our ambitions. I am not ashamed to say so. I speak as one who boasts of an ambition. I should like to be numbered amongst those who in their day and in their generation had at least done something to lift the poor out of the mire and the needy out of the dung-hill. Do you think I would part with my share in that hope for the riches of the Empire ? Riches are not the things that appeal to politicians, and men who talk like that neither know politics nor politicians. I am glad to be standing here, and to say that not for myself, but for the honour of British politics and politicians to-day."
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