3-052-423 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Electioneering at Liverpool: scene at the Townhall after the nomination, 1880. 'The contest between Lord Ramsay, son of the Earl of Dalhousie, and Mr. Edward AVliitley, solicitor, for the representation of Liverpool in the House of Commons, terminated yesterday week in favour of Mr. Whitley and the Conservative party...[Our illustration] represents the two rival candidates, after their formal nomination on the Tuesday, walking arm-in-arm together out of the Townhall, at the door of which, after receiving the plaudits of their respective supporters in the crowd outside, they courteously took leave of one another...The police are seen keeping the doorway clear; while amidst the crowd is a man selling broadsheets of "Election News," and a paper which displays a comical picture of both candidates stripped for a race or walking-match; the elder gentleman being heavily weighted with a load of responsibility for Tory sins, and the betting supposed to be in favour of "the young 'un".' From "Illustrated London News", 1880.