This cartoon depicts the attempt to catch the Catholic votes by baiting the trap with the Tory candidate. Mr. George Brown was at this time exceedingly unpopular with the Roman Catholics, on account of his outspoken ultra-Protestantism in the Globe.
Flysheet, 1857.
THE RAT TRAP.
THE PETTICOATED GENTLEMAN FINDS THE ROBINSON BAIT DOES NOT TAKE.
THE SICK CANDIDATE.
As the campaign progressed this valiant artist-partizan of course descried signs of the complete collapse of Mr. Robinson.
Flysheet, 1857.