3-052-534 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The General Election: the unpopular candidate, 1880. Politician giving a speech. 'The fancy portraits - those of the "Popular Candidate" and the "Unpopular Candidate," presenting themselves, each on the balcony of his hotel; the one with an obsequious bow and smirk of complacent greeting to his venal crowd of worshippers; the other, erect and stern, conscious of his own integrity, or pretending to be so conscious, defying the groans and hisses of an infuriated mob; these forcible impersonations can speak for themselves'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.