The circumstances 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 honors 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, etc., not to mention banquets, and other species of emphasis.
Grip, 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?”
“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.)
Grip, November 29th, 1873.