Show POKING FUR FUN AT BIG MEN how speaker er reed mc kinley and others like to pc de caricatured THE SPEAKER SAYS HE IS CALLOUS believes in cartoons mr coupon cannon says he has suffered SatTer cd flower and breckinridge take A humorous view Senator Serin tor ingalls Ing fills finds ills his caricatures distressing INGTON oct 7 1890 1800 oh im callous that was what speaker thomas thom B D reed 0 of maine said yesterday when ho h 0 was asked whether ho he liked or disliked to bo be caricatured and ho he added 1 I am so used to seeing myself ally misrepresented that I 1 have grown utterly indifferent whether the cartoon Is friendly or otherwise next to speaker reed heed as Ka apoleon mckinley Is the most caricatured man of 0 the present day said ho he when the same inquiry was addressed to him caricatures are great makers and un makers of public men the carto cartoons ons in tho the comic papers strike th abo 0 eye ot of tile the people wio who behold the argument convoyed conveyed by them at a glance where it would not bo be understood or bo be convincing in tho the shape of cold type un 1 friendly cartoons are calculated to do harm to any man however honest whom they may attack the tha person pictured may have tho the purest motives in all that he does and yet the public st at large Is not acquainted with those motives and may get a false notion of them from the oppia opposition lion cartoons they see undoubtedly the caricatures that meet the view ol of so large a portion of the voting population have a great effect on public opinion As to whether I 1 myself like to bo be caricatured I 1 would rather not spy say major mckinless McKin leys first on tho the side of the republican majority chairman cannon of the ways and means committee said that his own ex peric per lence of being caricatured had been unfortunate such caricatures as I 1 have se sen seen n of myself ho he remarked have mostly 0 otly been of an unfriendly character mighty few flattering natt ering portraits of myself have I 1 seen in the comic prints both all t the he same I 1 have a la largo rge belief I 1 in 11 the use il ulness ct cf caricature it aff if fords koblect lessons to tho ilia masses which in this way LEAR A VAST AMOUST AMOUNT concerning public men and their work that would not be conveyed to popular knowledge by reading in ili iny opinion a man mail of real merit is not injured by being caricatured in ili a a hostile manner inA tiner because people who are not his friends make allowance for what is aipa malice or misrepresentation while those who are friendly to him become indignant arid and more active on account of what they conceive to be unjust A persecution any man mail prominently connected with political legislation or ad tion lion cannot cannon possibly escape being caricatured and it if tie he is not excessively thin skinned lie ho will be or will soon become indifferent on tho subject so much for the views of the three chief in hueu ei I 1 on oil the republican side of tile the house on the democratic side mr flower of new kew york has been singled out of late laio to 10 a considerable extent for treatment by tho the caricaturists lie ile expressed a rather humorous view of the matter why said to ho 1 I should feel pos siti voly lonesome lone sonio it I 1 lid did dot see caricatures of 0 myie my elf in puck and other publications cat ions one of the funniest things I 1 over ever saw in ili my life was the cartoon I 1 picked up tho the other day in ili which I 1 was as just having learned tile the news of 0 mr clr reeds reelection election re the artist depleted depicted me as awakened in bed by the intelligence which had somewhat soine what tile effect of a dynamite cartridge upon my couch and its surroundings while I 1 lay aghast at tho the disaster Sofa so far as my own recollection reco lection goes I 1 did not actually experience 0 tiny any such borrie horrifying 11 g astonishment at the speakers success which was more or loss legs to have bren been anticipated but a caricaturist without license would bo b a in a worse 0 way w 1 I y than a sal oon with the same I 1 like to bo be caricatured catu red it would grievo grieve too luc to tn find myself no longer subjected to tha pleasing ordeal A public man mail feel as if his reputation was made unless he appears in ili tho the cartoons it is ft a recognition of the tact fact that lie ho has bas made him self belt known to the people and ho ought to bo be grateful in ili my opinion on evon unfriendly cartoons do the ilia subject good though my notion is that ihei impressions conveyed by caricaturists fists arof not it at all enduring ones they last for an hour merely mr flowers colleague amos T J cum wings lias has been to taken air up to a considerable extent lately by the caricaturists ue he declared that the funny cartoons had a great usefulness I 1 1 they are most useful he said aldi for showing up reprehensible absurdities of au all sorts nonsensical fashions and cu customs il oms they do much to suppress duppre ats and in like ike manner they call attention in a most salutary lotary sa way to the weaknesses ot of public men A politician who runs to extremes in anything I 1 Is quickly brought to his senses by applied at tho the same time the privilege 0 of caries turo is greatly grea aly abused abased tho the weapon la IS often utilized to mis present and to put people in a false light for instance a fragment of a mans loans speech Is taken out of the context and a cartoon constructed ted upon it which represents the speaker in a manner altogether untruthful this Is obviously wrong in a general way however it may bo be said that it if a man Is really honest and conscientious ious caricature Is not likely to do him ANY SERIOUS it always amuses me to see caricatures of myself and I 1 rather like it than otherwise A dishonest man is certainly very much harmed by tho the weapon of caricature take tho the ease of hill tweed tor for instance it was casts cartoons in harpers that did moro more to fetch litin him down from his position of power to prison and public contempt than all other influences combined leaving dishonesty out of tho the question the weaknesses ses of any public man who has them are sure to be assailed by the carl cari mr fr blaine bialac had such weaknesses very marked and tho the cartoonists attacked them unsparingly with such tremendous effect that ho he lost tho the presidency no printed articles could have dono done himl the damage inflicted by the carto cartoons 0 ns in which he was made to figure silver haired breckinridge of kentucky chuckled when ho he was asked how ho he liked to bo be caricatured and what ho he thought the effect of such treatment was ras upon tho the interests of 0 a a public milu man said he 1 I have been intensely amused by some of the caricatures I 1 have seen of myself there was one in particular I 1 remember printed a few years ago that represented me in my seat seal in ili the house with a regular flower garden in my buttonhole and my cowlicks all dis ordered ord oreil and fluffed up from my head it was a a capital likeness and made me molook look for all the world like a great big brahma rooster I 1 often laugh over it when it recurs to my mind caricatures of myself I 1 have come to regard very much as it if they were of a third person and my vanity Is 13 not disturbed by thorn them great Is the power at 0 the caricature in my opinion it strikes a blow with a sharpness that mere print does not achieve for example you will perhaps remember the cartoon published during a past presidential campaign that represented general hancock in military garments and a state stale of serious mental disturbance who is this fellow tariff he was made to inquire and why does lie ho go in tor for revenue only this conveyed like a flash the idea which the opposition party was so anxious to promulgate that hancock ancock II was a military man unacquainted with politics and therefore unfit to administer the government from tho the white house there you have an example of the yi NESS OF TIIE THE as opposed to tho the printed editorial every one was able to comprehend tho the notion expressed in that way my bellet belief is that circumstances even unfavorable caricatures are beni beneficial to a public man but it if bo be is dishonest they injure djuro hita him by bringing him under a particularly bright light 0 of publicity it Is in tile tho superlative dilative ila tive vividness with which tho the caricaturist expresses his idea that tile tho strength of the argument ar guille at ho he presents is found ono one other republican leader in the abe house had bad a few words to say about his notions ot of tho the it baj wa david B henderson ot of iowa and lie said 1 I believe that the cartoons in ili tho the funny papers have a great power for tb tho e education ot of tho iho masses they carry ideas quickly and present them in ili the form to attract people who would never talce take them in by the more tedious and difficult process of reading unfriendly cartoons like unjust paper articles frequently make men tho the work of tile tho caricaturists Is a great for cotor good or for esil ci depo adl noll os ag upon tho the manner in which it Is in exerted but I 1 do assert that the gentle arthou c ii 14 more effective than that strikes a violent blow dioro aloro can call bo be antho la tho wily of convincing bucall ral minds rids by a mild sarcasm than by r pross cross abuse insult Is never effective as au an argument the man is a poor rea who tackles his A adversary with a club a and ad hu he Is more likely than not in it the to convey i bellot to others that lie he is acting unjustly As tor for myself I 1 am quite indifferent to caricature s of which I 1 am made the iho subject soloA times they aniese me on and of at other times not at all but in no case do I 1 mind ono one bit on tile the senate side of the S legislature sir 1119 cock of now new Y york ork has been much caricatured of late there Is 13 hardly IL cartoon in tile polychromatic publications nowadays that does not present his portrait in n one gulso guise or another possibly this Is s in a measure because IS 78 MY AIT EAST ONE ON E to catch a consideration of no small I 1 importance imparlance to from the caricaturists point of 0 view said he when tho the question was put to him 1 I dont care acsay to say whether I 1 like to bo be caricatured or not but I 1 dont admitting Ld that within certain limitations the caricature Is most useful it impresses the mind quickly and net bently aly with the particular idea penna parina which it ii Is intended to convoy it if a ln man a exhibits imperfections they are pointed out remorselessly by the tha cartoon which Is calculated to exercise a sort of 0 cauterizing influence upon whatever ii bad baa and thus to effect A curo cure at tho same time I 1 am of 0 tho the opinion that caricatures otten often have a tendency to excite unfriendly and unjust prejudice against honestly disposed public nien men 1 those who have n rm acquaintance with tho the courso course of tho the individual attacked and the motives that inspire him accepting in good faith the pictorial misrop tation which meets their eye A picture by as much as it presents an n idea more vividly has a quicker end bill moro positive effect effait upon the mind than leaden type it points more directly an and d vividly to tho the criticism it wishes to make of all the men in congress at present senator ingalls is the man who has been roost caricatured and ho he like it at all it as aa always roost most offensive to myself to bo be caricatured he said and I 1 very frequently it lt distress esme exceedingly for reasons which are altogether my iny own affair nevertheless I 1 consider that the comic cartoon has an important function and a serious usef ulness it Is a power for good when the instrument of the caricaturist Is properly employed unfortunately much of such work la tho the f funny allily papers today to day Is a purely of t 9 a machine nature and altogether witless the proper purpose of a caricature should be to call attention to things that ought to be suppressed and to make odious A higher object than the he vent ing of party parly malice and th tho 0 throwing of political mud hnud ought to bo be sub served by tho the cartoon cari oon however my belief Is that oven even unfriendly caricatures help publio men ioen usually by making them known to tho the people A man must amount to something sorBo thing to be ba chosen as a subject tor for the pencil of tho the satirical artist RENE |