3-052-532 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Election Sketches: the chairman of committee, 1880. 'The "chairman of committee" is a very nice old gentleman, who has learned to keep his own counsel, and that of his local associates in political effort, in their "consolidation of co-operation," at such times as these. Nobody can be expected to step forth out of their secret conclave at the White Horse or at the Blue Lion, in order to give us the items of cost, and to say, "That's the way the money goes".' From "Illustrated London News", 1880.