Show Work Woi l of Or Selecting S Campaign C p gl Gimcracks Toys Buttons Bui tons Portraits find and Political Sons Son Requires Shrewd Manipulation in Every Evol Presidential Campaign N yolk w Scheme In the Hie Portrait Line Uno That Gave Gao GaoA A Man Arun a Political Song Factory selection of or campaign Kim alm almI Tin I crack and the economical pur purchase chase chuse of ot the l Is Important work fur tor some one alto on tb the latt a lattof U of t every evory l executive com corn In ovary overy w llen lIal campaign the Iho liy Hy II Is la the mind and and ami nil 1111 tho the other rubs by of ot time tho name Keep which It Is sought ought to the constantly before your our says sas voter Shrewd old ud lull III well I Star know tho the Kaunas l City iv m 1 well conceived d welt well executed political II Ill I toy 10 may do a u lot of 0 KOO 1100 J to tho the party adopting It II and atla Hi the lucky IlIck genius who could Invent a II thing nail sprint It on Oil a pro executive committee ut lit tho the psychological moment In III the tho opening niche make a II might nl tin days ln B II of ot n II campaign small fortune out of ot It It H would have hu 0 to tl b IJ t a U thoroughly IY convincing toy though for or the tho t same lame f w l oil polio cut cul are arc also wall aware that no living man mall can tell lell in advance how liow any political will 11 take with lIh the voters and are about goal party part In III that direction On the whole hole portraits of ot the preel presidential vice candidate arc red tho Iho t In which rin an executive committee earl can invest Judging from the lime great g r eat preponderance I tto f mil t derance tJ of the portrait expenditures over uvel nil all other gimcrack out outputs puts pins during the few campaigns Homo Home yearn literally millions of por pOl portraits portraits traits of qt ill all sizes BUcs from rom that of a II 10 cent piece picco to 10 time tho stile side of a 1 burn barn lire are bought by h the tho committees for 01 lion In lu every stale of mho tho Union Dur During I During UI ing ono nut not so fill very long ago O I candidates lr printing size Ilze portraits on heavy pinto pIli to vu Were ere re knit kept running moodily for U 11 roil and a full III Hedged Ivan ns open nod out the tho pictures by liy the mho ton the Ilia whole time lime There were cro pertain certain m lii contributors to time the party parlY funds funda that year who objected to 10 the tho n e of or time tha portrait contract hut hat nobody lied 1111 the tho hardihood In to put pat on the brakes It In that same year that thaI the two to committee put out a II large number of nf oll of nf size nay Imy 8 feet feat by h 10 to hang In big untie hulls tar far the tilE brads heads of the tho audiences on time till wall bark hark of the 11 These portrait In lei neutral browns brawns and anti graya that made ml them look lute like photographs photograph token n viewed from a mi title 1111 distance and they were y likenesses far superior to the tilE cotor alOI lIl d portraits seen leen on time tho ex banners which hove have boon been Oon so prominent In III toll nit recent rent cam pai b nr nrC C who ho saw these the portrait win wn struck with their excellence and anda Int n a whole lot of people Importuned their maker to tn Rive Ive up UI the secret of their manufacture He parried all aU Inanities inquiries skillfully ful I however er even declining hung to 10 tell where they were ere made but at nt the tho end of ot th till tits campaign his hili scheme schema III lie 0 came out nut JIOW UK ruin BIO PIC f j mes mesI I First of pf nil all he lie got go t two wn big g manic nm In lanterns n terns and had lied first claw class transparencies made mado of ut the two Iwu presidential anti two vice presidential HI candidate Then lie III found ft a 1 lily lade hI vacant building hili 1 11 nil In III an obscure obscuro New l i village He lie tented rented this structure and boarded hoar ed up nil the windows anti and doors so 10 that no sunlight could enter the place Then when he Ise had an fn order for tor a C pair of ot nor por portraits traits ho put he the transparencies In lilt isle hl lantern stretched the canvas on which the limo pictures Were ere 11 to la be he painted the tho proper distance from the lanterns and turned on time the light Of nf court cone cou rh rim to result liB a perfect Image lilia of nf each portrait on the hI relives canvas end sll III the man titan lotto vho hO wielded the mho h uh had to In do tie was WAil to on the paint to conform with tho linos coloring thus thul unerringly 1 Indicated It Is I 1 popularly supposed ell that political pun pull ID Is required to 10 sell r n glin cracks to an Rn executive committee committe anti tills hue is true Irue In some t 1 but this title mans work w Interested both committees 1 to ro 0 mightily that they fell over oer each other to get et his bis pictures In III u short 1 time after his hi first pictures were shown h rul to put In lit half a Ii dozen magic lanterns mind employ a II regular stuff staff of ur makers ulna Had the active cam eam campaign lasted a R year instead II of a mi few teW weeks nocks I eI Its ho would Mould l have cleared up 1111 n big fortune As An s It 11 as le he hI mado enough to In go 1110 him hint n good start In III Ina a n permanent line hue of business political cartoons should not be bl ns as campaign in III all 1111 the tho executive committee department 11 I pIli that selects anti and buys the badges and buttons and portraits gen gin generally takes charge of ot time the cm C cartoons al III also so 10 At AI the beginning of a n recent cane cam campaign n a who bad hod once mice been beena a meat ment power In tho land Hutt by lIy reason of Ills his graphic portrayal of ut mho tho Ulan of ur ono one of ot the Ihu parties but hut hUll hud lost beet his Ills rip decided to nook neck 10 me by h cartoons Not a n newspaper place pinto co r middy ho led to ono one or of nor of the tho committal Ho lie hail had shifted his bin political allegiance iii In iii time the meantime and Wile wan somewhat doubtful which party to In fully apply to 10 but hill finally decided In favor of tho the party of his lie trot loc love His Hut indication to 10 to mho tho executive corn com committee that lint he ho would be he Rind glad to 10 help eruct their for n a by b making for fot them limn cartoons which they should furnish to II the papers free of ot charge caused a mi great Clutter in iii that political holy body bod and It was ans decided to 10 employ him at nt once Two obstacles arose lose however There wits was one olle Important article In III the treed creed tint that ho would not support and amid he lie had exalted notions us liS to the amount of oC money mOIl he should receive It II took n II long time to get gel over these theco things The Jhc artists to 10 limn dot doctrine trine was overcome comparative rom rm lye nice e hut but t the Iho pity m n ts 1118 as na tilt dif different ii it ferent For n II while Wllie neither neither t nor 1101 committee could be hI jot Hot in to name hone at tit all When whet the artist otter after ninny many long bong pow woIs ns nl about thu Ihl proper thing there thore was time Iho com They argued time the rase With him for or tuo days Ila a ti tentative compromise wan true reached on mt 37 OO This go with lIh time the committees treasurer though and nud nu ns a n last III I resort n a committee cm em who vho had bad some know knowledge known ledge 1110 of g o as nil tn to n how hor ns toad s In iii mho tho et Will was asked to tm fix lIx tho Iho matter up tilt Ho lie and mho tho had been cartoon cartoonist let IMI had 1111 1 Interviews some Homo of or thorn them stormy and the upshot was WOI that boning basing his hili co mini n put Inn on nn the Ihl largest number of cartoons that could possibly lily bly hi bo ho time the artist was Willi tn to receive instead of If 37 OO or Just one onn tenth as nn murli ns OM time tha mentioned p III n time the Ih compromise I FOIL Till So Sn tar far nil all was satisfactory The ex ox II who had timid recommended mended time the taking on of nf the who cut tut the thu cartoonist down mime tenths congratulated himself Time Thu em emit 1 heaven that ho hll n on the th committee and d had of n H tnt flit and timid p Job Joh after attar the close of ot the campaign providing hit his party won The rime cartoonist was Wa happy because while wits Willi by Jy no It II t was the same attune ns as 37 u a week for ten 1111 weeks or a II cm cartoon toon only tO SO cartoons were Hut them was mote male coming coning It H was lall planned that tl tt time the committees I editorial hoard board or whatever It wan teas called culled should pass an ouch each cartoon be bo before fore tore It was sent lent out nail the committee already mentioned tens to 10 serve ns III the omit medium manhunt through h which the time nr flat s Ideas Ideall should hould s sI be t t o presented l to la limo tho hoard I lint Had It been m possible oils for tor him Lint to tu get Rt board and cartoonist I together occa occasionally II I there night might have been no ho tile fric friction lion tion but hilt It turned out oat Impossible to 10 do du this thin or Di In tact fact even to get Het the cat p ed on at ell all at mit least half thin the tune time The result was a n ten weeks spell of heart disease for tor the committee cm en ploys plo Not being heln able Ible often to 10 get rbt sanction for tor time the cartoons he had to In put lut thrum them lh out nut on OI Isle bis own judgment only to 10 timid after Ater they were out In Ut Inmany I many instances In nome name members of oC the committee objected to time the Ih subject chose chos chosen en or Its Ita it treatment In fact theio was WOK unruly hardlY one of oC the cartoons that taut some seine Inc uno condemn as na sure lIuro to 10 Our the campaign So Bo serious did the hc situation become before election day that lint the unfortunate h hall id visions In lit his hili dreams every CV lY night of ot po 10 io cat that either missed time the point or 01 trout positively detrimental to the lilt entire unit and of an min outraged executive committee wreaking r vengeance e upon him huh for fol letting the objectionable al to draw drawings Inns ings in go n foi forth in to the papers loh It Is III not right to o classify campaign songs as nil political 1101 either cither ell her but this particular who lad had to 10 Ireton to 10 or of thorn that lust would certainly put them III In that Hint ory Before the tho active campaign was wall H a 1 fortnight old ohl it seemed to him hint pint every evory man aim woman arid anti child chili In time tho country had Imd written or tH was Itis 1111 about abort to In write wilto or at Rt tenet felt able to 10 write wilto a mi campaign song sang Apparently every member of ot the committee mid and every state stale committee chairman from runt the Ihl Atlantic to 10 the had hid hosts of or friends Any Atty wn WA w ay they nil all sent songs to In the commit commil too lea by every overy mall timid and tills thus particular unfortunate had to try 11 the most moat of if thrum Ih out At first when whon hi III took a n bundle of ot manuscript songs Bongs amt music mu lo home hOlne nt at night and oud nuked hl his hili Wife to play piny tho time Li lra on nil lima tho piano and mils lilii daughter to slug sing HIli tho the words they were w re quite de Ilc delighted lighted with time tho novelty of ot It Hut Bul when on aim 0 ono nevo ln morning he naked both of them then to 10 stay at home h mn chinch mind struggle gle gk tIt with 87 57 different heron of ot doggerel and 87 new IC pieces of Inhar Inharmonious s they tar 10 Ie gently tn to bo ho stife Bute II C but hut with a II degree of ot that left no room mom for Co argument They Ihy both declared they thoy hat had sung tho limo praises of the Iho presidential candidate he was waR working tor until they were completely tired out more mOIO moreover moreover over under tinder the Iho strain of ot trying the songs nonet they had lost sympathy with time the party he lie represented and from ruin that tho I time on nil till flit election day they 11 a II t good deal of mf attention to 10 arguing with him In ht tutor favor of o the tho opposition party nn Its Not Nol nil ull the songs canoe came to II executive by hy mall Many of if Hum were brought by hy the tho authors and torn cont om posers commie nomo of these theao people insist Insisted cd Id on nn singing t Ih their productions to the tho sUto to 10 whom honn most most of the cam were inferred for COt In iii Investigation lung Long Ion before the Ihl close coBe of ut time the campaign he was Wall nn pick of cam mm campaign songs HOURS nn 1111 his toothy family mid laid been eplI nud oven even now ho sometimes dreams of tutu cam campaign Il songs and their diabolical tern terM KIND IN D DIt It may any bo be sold laM of Df limo tho American cam canti son song writers that thin they generally themselves t cut os to of their own nIl candidates or at lit worst to mild sarcasm regarding their opponents Jt It ItIs Is not 1101 HO mio In England where whelo the tho cam songs arc tiro nothing ices lesi than savage Ravage Yore Hoi a Is II ono amt was US put lIt forth while Gladstone wan I the Old Man Mau soe to 10 Ills bile doom Ho lie will 1911 ride In n a flary chariot And Anti sit lilt In III On n a pinto photo to Twixt and Judas Hays the Ih Devil My Iy quite full fullas as nil you ou see aee lint limit Ill try and do all that I can earl Bu Su Ill III let mid and Judas go o Ace tI co And take In Jim the Ihu UraM Old Mannut Man nut Dut the Devil soon loon found au 1111 the tho whole thin t n sell lell For old Noddy corrupted all nil people In iii Hell Of at campaign gimcracks proper an en nl ni most Infinite variety Is II offered to 10 every executive 10 small portraits In tho time form torm of medallions buttons and badges leading of ot course When was ryas the candidate plumes and amid pompons from Crom his hili sobriquet Tho The Plumed Knight were put rut forward III In many forms In lit HOC 1500 the tho McKinley m makers r ran s scored a n hit with gigantic lead an Oil beetles In Ili bronze paint which welch were sold ns tie gold Koltl bugs Jug Little vest test CRt pocket Ol handbooks giving a n I well veil se err selected holed lot lut of or economic nets facts accompanied i with Ill political deductions me are Ie almost sent out by the million One year e l an nn executive committee ov 0 tiered der 1 of o little cardboard Hags glass printed In five colors on the Iho reverse of which a n vast suet mount amount of sound political doctrine ns that committed understood political noun was crowded trio into a n little spare space Political puzzles too are nio often of at frred not 1101 often oft on accepted and little statuettes no Ito end of nf wrinkles tn In and It II would be ho a 1 exert live tive committee which could get along some upon badly designed campaign gin cracks Often Onen the makers do not a ask k the Ihl executive committee to 10 buy their goods goal but hul only to Indorse then them depend dependIng depending Ing for their sales ealR upon time the state and minor local I ola 1 committees 0 I and nud sometimes preferring to 10 go to 10 the public direct tint hut this IB is only when the gimcrack In hand Is especially e pe novel and taking Inking |