Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman? James Macandrew of Otago by R J

Author:R J [J, R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988531359
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Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2019-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

A cartoon showing Macandrew dancing over swords labelled Radicalism and Toryism, intended to suggest that he was a ‘rail-sitter’ who was not committed to any political party, in a period when he was at odds with his provincial council. It appeared in the Otago Witness jubilee supplement, 31 March 1898, and used a Punch cartoon of the British Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone with Macandrew’s face superimposed.

W.B. Gibbs photograph, Box 267- 003, Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago

With 19 of the 46 councillors replaced, the two opposing sides were now almost evenly balanced and Macandrew expressed a wish to bury the hatchet.77 Gillies was elected Speaker when council met in July 1873, and despite a shaky start and an unsuccessful want-of-confidence motion within the first week, on closing the session Macandrew expressed satisfaction with the amount of business disposed of in a comparatively short space of time.78

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