Fun (18 December 1885). Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Click on image to enlarge it.
. Signed “Phil F.”[“It happens,” says a Conservative contemporary,” there are two Lord Randolphs in one. There is the Lord Randolph who is one of the most industrious of politicians, who is capable of working in the study for eight hours a day, and who understands that the first business of statesmanship is government and administration. The other Lord Randolph,” it points out, "is the brilliant, pungent, humorous ‘slogger’ - a ‘bruiser’ such as the opposite ranks [i.e. the Liberals] are supplied with.”]
This is the Gentle Randolph, |
This is the Raging Randolph! — |
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