| Show I ' THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON of Caricaturists" Drew Prince A Famous Memorial Day Picture I Career Hi Thomas Nast America’s GreaW Cartoonist Laid As de the Trenchant Pencil That Helped Win the Civil War d T°o11 UP th 1 Bruih fo Make ptmg That Breathe the Sprt of Recondition Between the Ble and the Gray VIca ' V western N'eu sprier I’m WATSON name is a synonym merciless and stinging pichim torial satire which made political powerful most the cartoonist America has ever And yet he could lay taown down the trenchant pencil writhe that made politicians or brush and pick up crayon tenderness with to produce and reverence two pictures of the spirit of symbolical Memorial day was a simple them of One “With sketch newspaper Charity to All with Malice Lin- Abraha’m None— Toward coin” first reproduced in the New York Illustrated Times 19 1881 The othSeptember er was “Peace in Union” a magnificent canvas nine by twelve feetf which he painted in 1695 and which now hangs in the G A R ftall at Galena SCOTT By ELMO HIS 111 both the Blue and the Gray clasp hands in forgiveness of past hatreds and in token of renewed And friendship and future trust the man who delineated them thus was one who had used his talent to help prosecute a vigorous war until the superior numbers and resources of the determined Blue had worn down the resistance of the brilliant Gray and forced an acknowledgment of defeat How well he used that talent is shown in the tribute paid him by two of the chief figures in the conflict In of Lincoln called him “our best recruiting sergeant” Ulysses S Grant said “he was the foremost figure in civil life developed by the war He did as much as any one man to preserve the Union and bring the war to an His same was Thomas Nast It was high praise indeed for the German immigrant boy who had grown up in poverty in lower Hew York But history has confirmed their estimate of him For in later years he was to become even more important in helping end” shape American history— maker of Presidents and to be a to overt- hrow almost the most corrupt political organization the country had ever known Born in Bavaria Nast was born in Landau Bavaria September 27 1840 the son of a musician in the band of the Ninth Bavarian regiment Foreseeing the revolution which was soon to convulse Europe the elder Nast emigrated to America when young Thomas was six years old The boy was educated In the public schools of New York yty and early displayed a talent for drswing At the age of fourteen he took a course of battle pictures to the illustrated press of New York London and Paris When he returned to the United States m February 1861 it was with a training in sketching battle scenes such as had been enjoyed by no other American artist Nast’s first Civil war pictures were made for Leslie's Illustrated News but in July 1862 he joined the staff of Harper’s Weekly an association which was to bring him his greatest fame Already a defeatist sentiment had sprung up in the North and there was loud and insistent clamor for “peace at any price" with the South To combat this sentiment Nast drew a bitter cartoon called With the South" “Compromise which was at once recognized as one of the most powerful pictorial It was editorials ever produced used for campaign purposes and was circulated by the millions It turned the tide against the defeatists and did much to solidify the war sentiment in the North Nast was a great admirer of In 1868 when the general Grant the artist ran for President drew his famous cartoon with the title "Match Him" It not only became an important campaign document itself but it inspired many songs and poems which were published under the same “Peace In Union” Virginia Palm Sunday April APPomattox Court House under Theodore Kaufman SOm note but In a the training he ever had JJen J was fifteen Nast drawings for iJtY iDit Illustrated News- -' was $4 a week kill that de-- P1S salary Waa hu y°uth he was soon being important assignments ° these WM 0 cover at BS?yeenan Prize fight 1858’ ? nt’ Canada’ atAlWt 01“?enan fought Sayers England two years later vS as ent there to make ketch85 t?"0fAf!hat 11118‘batlle of the dvaSa fight Heenan l1 enough money to to to ?!? where he joined Gara- ialtji wvn arrny re t16 8erved a an side on the Italian liberator’s Halt aa ntnustcd with scv- al rfmi 4erahU°Tatic misti°ns of d But this "importance k Interfere with his draw- contributed numerous 'vea the fen w 8 1865 Later Grant said: Two title 6f things elected me the sword Sheridan and the pencil of Thomas Nast” On January 15 1870 Harper’s carWeekly published a Nast toon which gave us a political to this survives that party symbol a live day When Nast depicted he Jackass kicking a dead lion intended only to symbolize the was then copperhead press which Edwin attacking the memory of M Stanton Lincoln’s secretary of war who had died a short time Suafter being elevated to the Grant preme court by President But that braying has the Democratic donkey which crow-in- g almost entirely replaced the triof the as symbol rooster umphant Democracy and Harper’s During this period camNast embarked upon their M Tweed paign against William New of the corrupt political boss camYork city and out of that down the in ended paign which fall of Tweed came another po litical symbol made immortal by Nast’s pencil — the Tammany Yet this and the Demotiger cratic donkey were only two of several symbolical figures which came from his pen He developed the elongated figure of Uncle Sam and the baby of inflation the square cap and the full dinner pail of labor and finally the Republican elephant This symbol came about when James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald was greatly agitated at the thought of a possible third term for President Grant Nast depicted the Herald as a donkey in a lion’s skin rushing through the jungle frightening the other animals with its braying The Republican vote grown large and awkward was represented as a clumsy elephant on the brink of a precipice and almost ready to plunge into an abyss labelled "chaos” From that time on the Republican party was almost invariably pictured as an elephant Supports T R n camWhen the paign of 1876 developed into a bitter feud Nast’s cartoons were of so much aid to the Republicans 0 that he was sent a check for Wishing to retain some semblance of independence in politics Nast returned the check But this was a forecast of his action in 1884 when he electrified the nation by refusing to support the Republican candidate James G Blaine and instead swung his support— as did Harper’s Weekly —to Grover Cleveland But more important to his future wa$ the fact that although he did not supRepublican port the national ticket he did support a young New Yorker named Theodore Roosevelt and that action later bore important fruit for him Although Nast returned to the Republican fold in 1892 his temporary defection from its ranks in 1884 lost many friends for him At the same time financial disaster overtook him Always a great admirer of Grant he invested his entire fortune in the of book publishing company When it failed Grant and Ward in 1884 Nast was left almost penniless Then he left Harper’s Weekly and drifted from one publication to another He established Nast's short Weekly but it lasted only time He bought a silver mine in Colorado but it failed to recoup his fortunes as he had hoped It became increasingly difficult for him to get a position on newsfor public taste had papers changed and his type of cartoons were no longer popular For the next 16 years this man who had been called the “Prince of Caricaturists” and the “Fa- -' ther pf the American Cartoon” to was called upon frequently deny reports that he was dead In 1901 he was sought out by Lev lie’s Weekly the magazine which 45 years earlier had given him his first Job rind engaged to do a Christmas picture— his last Early the next year Theodore remembered who Roosevelt gratefully Nast’i support in 1884 and acting on the recommendation of Nast’a friend John Hay appointed him to the obscure position of consul at Guayaquil In He died there of yelEcuador low fever on December 7 1902 UTAH “Boss” Nast’a fight against Tweed is the outstanding examof ple in American Journalism As the power of the cartoon early as 1867 Nast had begun campaigning against the corrupt of New York city government which in a period of less than 30 months had defrauded the taxpayers of $30000000 and added $50000000 to the public debt iluge sums were paid to favored firms in city contracts in which members of the ring profited By 1869 Nast had singled out the principal individual targets for his political satire and chief was of course among "them Friend "Boss” Tweed himself what Nast to they up urged give called "a hopeless battle” and it was even hinted that he might if he persisted be assassmuted But persist he did Tweed was at first contemptuous of Nast’s biting attacks and "What are you gothen defiant ing to do about it?” he said when pressed by interviewers An Uneasy Boss But Nast’s relentless cartoon him criticism finally aroused The famous picture called "Who Stole the People's Money?” showing a group of men standing in a circle and each pointing to the man to his right particularly div turbed the "Boss” "Let's stop them d — d pictures” he said when he saw it "I don't care so much what the papers wyjte about me — my constituents can’t read but d— ndt v they can see pictures!" Nast’s "money-bagcaricature of Tweed with a dollar Sign for also struck the facial features home and as a climax to his blasts was the famous “Tammany Tiger Loose” cartoon just before the election senTweed was convicted tenced to serve 12 years but was released after little more than a year He was then faced with a suit by the state for $6000000 and in default of surety for bail was committed to the Ludlow street jail He was not actually confined however being permitted to ride in the afternoon and have dinner at home One day he took and of this liberty advantage escaped It was a fitting finale to Nast’s crusade pictorial against the Boss that one of his cartoons resulted in Tweed's capture in Jl Fevo h'J Little The cartoon appeared on 1876 and showed Tweed June in a remarkable likeness “demhis qualifications for onstrating the New York governorship by his willingness to bring to justice any number of lesser thieves” —the thieves being symbolized by two street Arpbs whom he is dragging to punishment Authorities at Vigo Spain where Tweed was arrested had been supplied with a copy of this cartoon Under orders to seize and detain him they gathered from the picture that he was a The kidnaper of little children! cable announcing his arrest said that he had been identified and captured “on the charge of kidnaping two American children” Tweed was brought back to America and died In the Ludlow street jail on April 12 1878 Origin of the Tiger Nast once was asked how he came to draw the tiger repre“How did It senting Tammany occur to me?” he replied “Sim- pie enough when you know how The head of a tiger In a ring was the emblem of the Big Six the old fire company that Tweed used to belong to It wss also adopted as the emblem of the American club When this orbecame known as ganization Tammany hall against which I was waging war I hit upon this emblem I attached a body to the head and thus had the tiger that we have heard ao much about ever since One day on the street car I aaw a man near me looking at one of my Tammany cartoons with great Interest Finally his face assumed a look of terrible fierceness and drawing up his clenched fist and with an exclamation of the bitterest hatred he struck the picture of the tiger full in the head I knew that I too had made a hit “Looking back over my experiences” he declared further “I deem it one of my most satisfying reflections that I never allowed myself to attack anything that I 'did not believe in my soul was wrong and deserving the worst fate that could befall' it” t HOTELS HOTEL 4th So SALT LAKE 01 to 1100 CLEAN PLANDOMK — htalo— Rata tl NfcV ADA ’(KNO top at th (OLDEN— Kono’a largo! and moil popular holol WUHON HOTEL 76c dp tf t!i Kat city Whn In IIOTKl THK th m I1E GOT U JOB T11E Uhi Halt Ho InH TEACHERS WANTED Appointees to consular service are expected to be able to speak the languages of the countries to which accredited they are respectively When a certain chap was considered for a consular post in China he was asked: "Are you aware that appointment of a consul is hardly ever recommended unless he speuks the language of theountry to which he desires to go? 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