The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-08-21
WY NOT REPRTgT TBEM,

New York Tribune: HaEper's Week
", evidently lacking new idess, has slate
ly reprinted some old cartoons. Not
that tho selection should be too
We have paid IL the compli-
ment Of reprOducingso some more ourselves
and the continued demand for last Sat
urdsy's Tribune seems to show that they
were appreciated. In justice to itself
and its readers, however, IL should re-
produce the best, not the worst in its
portfolio. Already the Tribune has
mentioned one-shoWing how Mr. Blaine
served his slanderers-which might be
republished to advantage. There are
many others also that would be timely.
WhVnot, for instance, bring out . few
portraits Of that merciless, bloodthirsty
tiger, which was Harper's Weekly's
fGvorite symbol ofthe Democratic party.
A good one. tool Start, say, with .
double page picture Of November 1881,
in which the beast has felled the Re
public, having already slain Justice and
shattered the ballot box. Work into
the series several Of those double-ended
tigers, TO each Of which the Democratic
candidate for vice. president furnishes
the head. and complete the assortment
with that admirable cartoon OF August
IA, 1880, IN which the animal, large but
lean. wild-eyed and Open-jawed, strains
at its chain crying piteouslY: ~ am
starving for offices; 1 cannot get nat on
water" Mr.. Mast might get up new
one to 60 with this, by the way. repre-
senting Harper's loOsing the tiger.
As reform figures extensively 10 polit-
ical talk. HHrper's Weekly would inter-
est great many people by showing
what it thought Of DemOcracV's fitness
for such work. Its opinion was finely
expressed June 10, 1876. A huge, Yeno-
nous serpent was then portrayed by
Mast, tattOoed with these words: "Sham
Reform in Politics and the Press"
And Columbia, standing by, was warned
not to tske this viper 70 her bosom
Forcible and pertinent advice that
Suited to to-day, too. Then there's the
picture printed October 81, that year
representing the Democratic party as q
bold, gaunt wolf, throwing of the sheep
skin disguise of "Reform" and plumber.
ing Uncle Sans docks.
1t would not be worth while, perhaps
TO BRING out all OF those lAmpOons el
Carl Schurz which crowded the pages
OF Harper's Weekly IN 1872. There are
too many. A single issue sometimes
contained six or eight. A few would b
enough. The collection might be limit
ed to his appearance as Don Quixote, as
sailing the windmill and whirliEg igno-
miniously through the air; as Iago
Richard III, Mephistopheles, and g trail
tor on the union ramparts waving fial
of truce to the advancing Ku Klul
Khan. With these might be groupeC
that allegorY of the asses kicking n
their heels at q splendid lion. Thi
would have new force and meaning TO
day. The cartoon showing "Sevel
Mule Barnum" as deaC
weight on the presidential
candidate in 1880 would come In pa
with the announcement Of the Demo
cratic committees choice of q figure
head for this years Reform" campaign
And then there's Hendricks. who Il
second on Editor Curtis presidentIa
ticket. There were so many burlesque
of him IN Harper's Weekly in 1876 ths
It would be hard TO say which are ID
best. As good as any Is that in whlc
Hendricks personates the henpecke
husband, and tends the rag-baby, Will
Mrs. Tilden pinches his ears as he goe
of, poker in hand, TO stir up the ReforI
fire, and the Democratic party, in th
! rear, brings soothing syrup on tray.
,, Our Irish friends, we are sure, woul
be interested, if not pleased, by the T
. publication Of some Of the bitter satire
on them In which Harper's Weekly hi
= abounded in the past. Fancy the
: emotions as they contemplate the or
/ which represents that race as a wipe
warmed on the hearth OF Americs
Liberty, but being murdered with 4
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