Cartoon, The Coming Struggle (Disraeli versus Gladstone)

Cartoon, The Coming Struggle -- using the Boat Race as an analogy for politics, Disraeli and Gladstone are depicted as rowers in competing boats, with the radical MP John Bright in a separate boat in the background. Lord John Russell is with Gladstone as the Coxswain of the Government (Liberal) boat. The main issue being debated at the time was electoral reform

1866 Analogy Approaches Competing Conflicting Coxswain Disraeli Electoral Enfranchisement Franchise Gladstone Legislation Oars Oarsman Oarsmen Parliamentary Radical Reform Rower Rowers Separate Versus

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