But there is no need to report his opening speech, which indeed was unusually brief for a chairman’s.  Templeton had begun to think better of him, until, after announcing that he would not stand between the audience and their great comrade from London, he said that, when the speech of the evening was finished, he would venture to make a few remarks by way of applying its principles to local circumstances.  He then introduced his friend and comrade, and sat down.