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Show THE BULLETIN "Prince of Caricaturists" Drew A Famous Memorial Day Picture His Career, Thomas Nast, America's Greatest Cartoonist, Laid Aside the Trenchant Pencil That Helped Win the Civil War and Took Up the Brush to Make Paintings That Breathe the Spirit of Reconciliation Between the Blue and the Gray. Twice I in By ELMO SCOTT WATSON name'is a synonym merciless and stinging pictorial satire which made him the most powerful political cartoonist America has ever known. And yet he could lay down the trenchant pencil that made politicians writhe and pick up crayon or brush to produce with tenderness and reverence two pictures symbolical of the spirit of Memorial day. One of them was a simple With newspaper sketch, to with Malice All, Charity Toward None Abraham Lincoln," first reproduced in the New York Illustrated Times September 19, 1881. The other was Peace in Union," a magnificent canvas, nine by twelve feet, which he painted in 1895 and which now hangs in the G. A. R. hall at Galena, HIS 1 Nasts 111. In both, the Blue and the Gray clasp hands in forgiveness of past hatreds and in token of renewed friendship and future trust. And 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 of 1861-6Lincoln called him our best recruiting sergeant. Ulysses S. Grant said be 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 end. His name was Thomas Nast. It was high praise indeed for the German immigrant boy who had grown up in poverty in lower New York. But history has confirmed their estimate of him. For in later years he was to become even more important in helping shape American history to be a maker of Presidents and to overthe throw, almost 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 city and early displayed a talent for drawing. At the age of fourteen he took a course of 5. single-hande- six-mont- hs battle pictures to the illustrated press of New York, London and Paris. When he returned to the United States in February, 1861, it was with a training in sketching battle scenes such as had been enjoyed by no other American artist. Nasts first Civil war pictures were made for Leslie's Illustrated News but in July, 1862, he joined the staff of Harpers 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 Compromise With the South which was at once recognized as one of the most powerful pictorial editorials ever produced. It was 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 Grant. In 1868 when the general ran for President, the artist drew his famous cartoon with the title Match Him. It not only became an important campaign document itself but it inspired many sewigs and poems which were published undfT the same - Peace in Union Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Palm Sunday, April GaVa-bald- is caricature money-ba- g of Tweed, with a dollar sign for the facial features, also struck home, and as a climax to his blasts was the famous Tammany Tiger Loose cartoon, just before the election. Tweed was convicted, sentenced to serve 12 years, but was released after little more than a year. He was then faced with a suit by the state for $6,000,000 and, in default of surety for bail, was committed to the Ludlow street jail. He was not actually confined, however, being1 permitted to ride in the afternoon and have dinner at home. One day he took advantage of this liberty and escaped. It was a fitting finale to Nasts pictorial crusade against the Boss that one of his cartoons resulted in Tweeds capture in 00 fall of Tweed, came another political symbol made immortal by Nasts pencil the Tammany tiger. Yet this, and the Democratic 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 When the campaign of 1876 developed into a bitter feud, Nast's cartoons were of so much aid to the Republicans 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 Harpers Weekly to Grover Cleveland. But more important to his future was the fact that, although he did not support the national Republican 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 in- vested his entire fortune in the book publishing company of Grant and Ward. When it failed in 1884, Nast was left almost penniless. Then he left Harpers Weekly and drifted from one publication to another. He established Nast's Weekly but it lasted only a short 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 newspapers for public taste had 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 Father of the American Cartoon, was called upon frequently to deny reports that he was dead. In 1901 he was sought out by Leslies Weekly, the magazine which 45 years earlier had given him his first job. and engaged to do a Christmas picture his last. Early the next year Theodore who remembered Roosevelt, gratefully Nasts support in ISM and acting on the recommendation of Nast's friend, John Hay, appointed him to the obscure position of consul at Guayaquil in Ecuador. He died there of yel low fever on December 7, 1901' rag-do- ll 8, 1865. title. Later Grant said: Two things elected me, the sword of Sheridan and the pencil of Thomas Nast. On January 15, 1870, Harper's Weekly published a Nast cartoon which gave us a political party symbol that survives to this day. When Nast depicted a live jackass kicking a dead lion, he intended only to symbolize the copperhead press which was then attacking the memory of Edwin M. Stanton, Lincolns secretary of war, who had died a short time after being elevated to the Supreme court by President Grant. But that braying figure became the Democratic donkey which has almost entirely replaced the crowing rooster as the symbol of triumphant Democracy. During this period Harper's and Nast embarked upun their campaign against William M. Tweed, the corrupt political boss of New York city ami out of that campaign, which ended in the down . THE 1 liltt OmFUL ViJvl-orgtJ- And 1 like -- too. CHERUB t music grar onion ir your not t cultured jovl Im just the guy for FARM LAND Finest proposition In Wrt, Pro- raratni lnaiiia imnrnvM. Irrlffitcd tim Mndfl you. HARNESS LAWRENCE Spain. The cartoon appeared on June 27, 1876, and showed Tweed, in a remarkable likeness, demonstrating his qualifications for the New York governorship by his willingness to bring to justice any number of lesser thieves. the thieves being symbolized by two street Arabs, 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 kidnaper of little children! The 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 repreHow did it senting Tammany. Simoccur to me? he replied. ple enough when you know how. The head of a tiger in a ring was the emblem of the Big Si, the old fire company that Tweed used to belong to. It was also adopted as the emblem of the American club. When this organization became known as 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 so much about ever since. One day on the street car I saw 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 tiie 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." QUALITY tSSSS For Early Summer Days material. something very 4 yards of MAKE yourself to of to wear trim. ricrac smart and yards pretty 1ft 39-inc- h as soon as the bland summer days Pattern Book. are here. These are so easy-e- ach Send 15 cents for the Barbara is a diagram frock, which Bell and Summer Pattern means the pattern is amazingly Book Spring which is now ready. It coneasy to work with. Both dresses tains 109 attractive, practical and bring you leading fashion notes in becoming designs. 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When he was fifteen Nast secured a job making drawings for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. His salary was $4 a week. But such was his skill that, de--. spite his youth, he was soon being given important assignments. The first of these was to cover the Morrisscy-Heena- n prize fight at Long Point, Canada, in 1858, and when Heenan fought Sayers at Aldershot in England two years later Nast was sent there to make sketches of that battle of the century." After this fight lleenan advanced Nast enough money to go to Italy, where he joined army. While there he served as an aide on the Italian liberator's stalf and was entrusted with several diplomatic missions of considerable importance. But this did not interfere with his drawing and he contributed numerous Boss Nast's fight against Tweed is the outstanding example in American journalism of the power of the cartoon. As early as 1867 Nast had begun campaigning against the corrupt government of New York city which in a period of less than 30 months had defrauded the taxpayers of $30,000,000 and added to the public debt. $50,000,000 Huge 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 among them, of course, was Boss Tweed himself. Friends urged Nast to give up what they called a hopeless battle and it was even hinted that he might be assassinated if he persisted. But persist he did. Tweed was at first contemptuous of Nasts biting attacks and then defiant. What are you going to do about it? he said, when pressed by interviewers. An Uneasy Boss. But Nasts relentless cartoon criticism finally aroused him. The famous picture called Who Stole the Peoples Money?" showing a group of men stapding in a circle and each pointing to the man to his right, particularly disturbed the Boss. Lets stop them d d pictures, he said, when he saw it. I dont care so much what the papers write about me my constituents cant read; but, d n it, they can see pictures WNU Service. NERVOUS? So you fad 1 1 AVE yon submitted a recipe in the big Cake Recipe Contest now being conducted through this newspeprr by C. Houston Goudiss, uulhor of our WHAT TO EAT AND WHY" series? If not, take time today to write out your favorite cake recipe, and tend it to him, attaching the coupon below. Thera are no restrictions as to the type of recipe that may be submitted. A simple loaf cake has an equal chance with an elaborate layer cake, provided its good! So send along the recipe for that cake which never fails to delight your family and friends. Youll agree that this is one of the easiest contests you ever entered. 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