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     Tory center of the district, was the scene of committee meetings, strategy 
     
     planning sessions, and visits at all hours by city politicians campaigning 
     
     in the country. My father was secretary of the Conservative district 
     
     committee, which included Angus Charlie MacLean, P.J.Berrigan, Ambrose 
     
     Collins, Dan MacDonald, Angus Darrach, and John buff MacLean. The first 
     
     candidate that I remember seeing there -was a Doyle of Rustico, a. 
     
    

    
     bluff, breezy extrovert who ran several times but always failed of election. 
     
     His Liberal opponent, John MacMillan of Fairview, served a number of terms 
     
     in the Provincial Legislature. In later years, the district was represente 
     
     by a New Haven man, Angus MacPhee, who campaigned under the Liberal banner 
     
     and who capably attended”.to the interests of his constituency for several 
     
     terms. 
     
    

    
     The federal candidates in those years were Angus A. MacLean and 
     
     Alexander Martin on the Tory ticket; Lemuel Prowse and Alexander B. e 
     
     Warburton on the Liberal slate. Later, Martin's place was taken by Donald 
     
     Nicholson. My memories of that period and of the 1907 campai#n are all of 
     
     Liberal victories and Tory defeats -- despite the high hopes that seemed 
     
     to prevail until the votes:had been. counted. 
     
    

    
     Political rallies were held in the old Hall, where the rival candidates 
     
     met face to face in no-holds-barred debates. The pattern was always the 
     
     same -- Grits stoutly defending their records in office; Tories 
     
     excoriating them and all their works. The audiences at those meetings wero 
     
     always violently partisan, with the odds heavily against the minority 
     
     Tories. Heckling had been brought to the status of a fine art; few speakers 
     
     of either party were able to state their cases without interruption. Tory 
     
     spokesmen naturally came in for the major portion of the heckling; seldom 
     
     did one of them manage to deliver his message intact. The single exception 
     
     was Thomas Doyle who séemed to be personally popular with both sides -- 
     
    
   
   
    
     although that popularlty was never manifested in the form of votes on