‘Capital!’ said Sir Watkin delightedly.
‘Suppose we send agents to break up all his meetings, so that he can’t be heard.’
‘A capital idea!’
‘Suppose we get the Rev. George Windbag, the leading Dissenting minister in the town, to make a grand speech at our first meeting, to talk of the need of unity and the danger of splitting up the Liberal Party. We can secure the man at once, Sir Watkin, if you will but ask him to dinner at the Hall. There is not a bigger tuft-hunter in the county, and he has immense weight with the respectable shop-keeping class.’
‘Capital!’ repeated the Baronet.
‘And suppose we get one or two Chartists from town. They will be sure to come. Pay them well, and feed them well, and you can do anything with them.’
‘Right you are,’ said the Baronet.
‘And we might get a Socialist or Republican down.’
‘What for?’
‘To divide the Rads.’