Paid money to be a colourman – to put up a flag (colour) at his shop and his house. A loyal Liberal (blue) supporter he said he would have changed his mind if he knew ‘such a humbug as Sir Julian was coming down here’ and had he known he would have thrown him in the sea with a plumper.

Note: During this election the election colours were Blue for the Liberals and Yellow for the Conservatives, the complete opposite of those we recognise today.