Part 8

“Miss Canada’s School.”

Being a word of advice to the new Premier. The persons represented in the cartoon, are, commencing at the head of the “class,” Hon. A. Mackenzie, Hon. Edward Blake, Hon. Geo. Brown, Hon. E. B. Wood, Louis Riel (who had been elected M. P. for Provencher, Manitoba), Hon. M. Langevin, James Beaty, Esq., M. P., T. C. Patteson, Esq., manager of The Mail, Sir Francis Hincks, and Sir John Macdonald. Monitor, His Excellency, Earl Dufferin, Gov. General.

NOVEMBER 8th, 1873.

MISS CANADA’S SCHOOL (DEDICATED TO THE NEW PREMIER.)

MISS CANADA (to the Boy at the Head)—“NOW ALEXANDER, BE VERY CAREFUL, OR I’LL PUT YOU WHERE JOHN IS!”]

NO. 24.

“The Political Mother Hubbard.”

It had been currently reported in the newspapers that the dignity of the Lieut. Governorship of Ontario was to have been bestowed on the Hon. George Brown, immediately on the accession to power of the Reform Government. The new ministers discovered, however, that Sir John Macdonald, had, in the last gasp of his official life, appointed one of his own colleagues, (the Hon. John Crawford) to the position in question, besides disposing of ninety-nine other “places” in the gift of the First Minister.

NOVEMBER 15th, 1873.

THE POLITICAL MOTHER HUBBARD

AND JOHN A.’S “DYING INIQUITY.”]

NO. 25.

“The Irrepressible Jack.”

The circumstance under which Sir John Macdonald was deposed from power seemed to warrant the assumption of the Reformers that he was “done for.” But on the contrary it only seemed the signal for additional honours to be heaped upon him by the Conservative Party, who unhesitatingly chose him leader of the opposition, and nominated him as member for Kingston, West Toronto, &c., not to mention banquets, and other species of emphasis.

NOVEMBER 22nd, 1873.

THE IRREPRESSIBLE JACK; OR, THE CONSERVATIVE RESUSCITATION.

JOHN A. (Side Showman)—“DID YOU THINK THE LITTLE FELLER’S SPRING WAS BROKE, MY DEARS?”]

NO. 26.

“The Premier’s Model.”

In an address to the electors of Lambton, soon after the accession to power of the Reform Party, Mr. Mackenzie declared the cardinal points of the policy he would inaugurate, as leader, to be “Electoral Purity” and “the Independence of Parliament.” (Before entering political life, Mr. Mackenzie followed the vocation of stone-mason.)

NOVEMBER 29th, 1873.

THE PREMIER’S MODEL; OR, “IMPLEMENTS TO THOSE WHO CAN USE THEM.”

CANADA—“WELL AND BRAVELY DONE, MACKENZIE, NOW STAND BY THAT POLICY, AND I’M WITH YOU ALWAYS!”]

NO. 27.

“The Liberal Programme.”

An adaptation of one of Leech’s Cartoons, in Punch, to Canadian circumstances—the cleansing of the Legislature after the corrupt Conservative regime.

DECEMBER 6th, 1873.

THE LIBERAL PROGRAMME; OR, THE ERA OF PURIFICATION.]