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VOLUME TWO
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He could also note that he was the party’s chosen leader; that the caucus had unanimously confirmed him in authority at the end of the preceding session, when he had offered to step down for any more desirable candidate;52 that the fullest possible party meeting had adopted the resolutions; and that, further, the party’s new official organization, the Constitutional Reform Association, had embodied them in its Address with the promise that they would be introduced in parliament. What more authorization could one possibly want? Why not act on the patently obvious?
All this was true. Unfortunately it was just as true that the Reform party organization in Upper Canada could not direct the parliamentary caucus at Quebec. The underlying rifts were there still; and Brown had not succeeded, as he had hoped, in vaulting over them in one quick leap. Furthermore, the political skills he unquestionably displayed in shaping public opinion or managing huge popular meetings did not include the restraint, finesse, and shrewd understanding of differing viewpoints that were so necessary in this affair. He could deal far better with a roaring audience of a thousand than a roomful of restless politicians. Still, for the time being the trouble was allayed. The question of authorization was let drop with Brown’s acknowledgement of its general necessity. And the resolutions were not introduced on March 5 as had been announced, on the ground that a number of the western members still had not reached Quebec.53 One, John Sheridan Hogan, never did arrive. Months later his body was found in the Don River near Toronto: he had been killed in a highway robbery.54
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