Part 13

OR, “JOB” CARTWRIGHT’S COMFORTERS.

BEING ONE OF THE “PLEASANTRIES OF PUBLIC LIFE.”]

NO. 48.

“Mrs. Gamp’s Home-Thrust.”

Early in the session a committee was appointed to inquire into the cause of the North-West difficulties, and during the progress of the inquiry evidence was elicited (mainly from Archbishop Tache) which implicated Sir John A. Macdonald. The Reform Party is represented in the cartoon as facetiously anticipating a repetition of the right hon. gentleman’s famous asseveration of his innocence. (See Cartoon No. 11.)

MAY 2nd, 1874.

MRS. GAMP’S HOME-THRUST.

SAIREY GAMP (The Reform Party)—“’AVEN’T GOT NOTHINK TO SAY ABOUT THEM ’ANDS THIS TIME, I SUPPOGE, MISTER SIR JOHN?”]

NO. 49.

“The Political Atlas.”

Hon. J. R. Cartwright, Finance Minister, became the object of incessant newspaper attack. Sir Francis Hincks, who boasted a great reputation as a financier, wrote a profound essay in The Mail to prove Cartwright’s incapacity.

MAY 9th, 1874.

THE POLITICAL ATLAS.

WHO WOULDN’T BE FINANCE MINISTER?]

NO. 50.

“Pacific Pastimes.”

The Reform Government took up the Pacific Railway scheme, but initiated a new policy with regard to it. Sir John Macdonald had pledged the country to complete the entire work within ten years. Mr. Mackenzie characterized this as a physical impossibility, and proposed, as the cartoon has it, “to tak the distance in sensible like jumps, ye ken!”

MAY 16th, 1874.

PACIFIC PASTIMES; OR, THE “HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.”]

NO. 51.

“Dignity” without “Impudence.”

The Dominion Senate, usually so passive and quiet, strikingly signalized its life and vim during this session by throwing out a bill introduced by Mr. Cameron, M.P. for South Huron, having for its object the re-distribution of the electoral divisions composing that Riding.

MAY 23rd, 1874.

“DIGNITY,” WITHOUT “IMPUDENCE.”

OLD MADAME SENATE—“I SAY, MR. LOWER-HOUSE MACKENZIE, WHO’S RUNNING THIS COUNTRY, ANYHOW?”]

NO. 52.

“Ambition’s Thorny Path.”

Dr. John Herbert Sangster appeared as a candidate for a seat in the Council of Public Instruction. His candidature was warmly supported by many of the public school teachers of Ontario, and as ardently opposed, on personal grounds, by The Globe newspaper and many others.