protectionist, to be selected as the convention's
vice-presidential nominee.

The "club" members are (clockwise from the editor's left): Frank
Blair, 1868 Democratic vice-presidential nominee; Senator Carl Schurz, organizer
of the Liberal Republicans of Missouri; Governor B. Gratz Brown of Missouri, of
whom the cartoonist obviously had no portrait; former Confederate president
Jefferson Davis; Horatio Seymour, 1868 Democratic nominee for president; former
president Andrew Johnson; Fernando Wood, Democratic congressman and former mayor
of New York City; Senator Thomas Tipton of Nebraska; Supreme Court justice David
Davis, nominated for president in February by the Labor Reform Convention at
Columbus, and understood to be available for both the Liberal Republican and
Democratic nominations; George Francis Train, eccentric author, lecturer, and
quasi-politician; as well as Liberal Republican senators Reuben Fenton of New
York and Lyman Trumbull of Illinois. Notice that in contrast to the others,Former Speaker Bronwyn Bishop would retire on a taxpayer-funded pension of $255,000 plus 10 free domestic return flights a year if she were to take the Prime Minister's hint and quit Parliament at the next election.

Tony Abbott all but declared the former Speaker's political career over on Tuesday.

But cabinet minister Christopher Pyne, who worked closely with Mrs Bishop in his capacity as leader of the house, said he hoped she prevailed at the ballot box if she recontested.