The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-30

ing the presidents beard with one hand,
while he TANNED an immense poker
down the back Of his neck. That was
exceedingly offensive to MI. Hayes.
Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, SAYS
II take everything as good naturealy
Is possible in this life. But you may |
be sure that It is not consoling to any
man to see himself pictured as .
monkey, q baboon, or treasury bur.
glar. However, I must confess that
the pictures are funny enough when
thew are about some other fellow"
'sUncle Jerry Ruslk, /" as the late secre-
tary of agriculture was called by his
friends, always enjoyed comic pictures
He laug he'd long and often over picture
which was published soon after he en-
tered the cabinet. The congress had
only a month previously created the de-
partmcnt of agriculture, and ono day
he was jocosely called 1.-the tail Of the
administration" by Joe Cannon, OF ILL.
nois. The old farmer statesman re-
piled: 'Wcll, Joe, you know that the
tail Of this cabinet may keep the flies
off of the administrations" Cannon
went off, of course, and told the story.
Very soon afterwards a comic paper
pictured q big cow, with Ruslz's face,
swinging q tail over the cabinet table
where President Harrison and the cabi'
net ministers were seated, WINE tne
laughed heartily, but it made Mr.. Har.
rison very angry.
ATTORNEY General Olney does not like
caricatures OF himself. He is very
| dignifed gentleman, a lawyer, but not
a politician. He was never In pubic
life before, and when he was recently
pictured as On owl, with a pen over his
| ear, giving wise legal advice to Grover
| Cleveland, who knelt before him with
uplifted hands, praying for counsel,
7l-.FTT " ssy was nearly frantic.
~ es4sx Aator ingalls, was always very
a. ss..s..ses+ss5s, but on one occasion he was
.N..sI5ss licensed. He was the best pre-
f,fsaiTass ,.thcer the United States senate
la, -yn in a generation or more. In
the char he was dignity and equity in
.s1y.=ss ia Nobody knew this bettez
+es.sza .i,nself, for he was very vain
4 r.,e1z. 50, when q comic paper pictured
HRS as saving a gavel frantically at
Sac Sse;4ro ond reverend seigniors of the
ts,f,f.t,= III, was mortified. He said: ''T11is
Is unfair, indecent and outrageous
marvel that there is no law to prevent
such shameful Misrepresentation Of the
, senate
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, vhs
delivered the remarkable speech agains
the administration, In which he said
ssThe clock strikes ut the white hous'
and the c,1ckoos here come out OF thet
boxes to tell us tho time OF day." depre
Gates caricotures. He was very earnes
in what he said about presidential in
, reference in senatorial affairs, ba
, when his famous uttcTance was handled
by a cartoonist he was shocked to Sc
the faces Of his friends, Senators Gray
Villas. VOORHEES, and Mcpherson, up
pcarinp as cuckoo birds caclling from
the boxes of big clocks which wer
ranged in the senate chamber, while h
. appeared In the attitude of addressing
: such a peculiar audience.
Senator Allison, Of Iowa, who is nov
: SO often spoken of as q presidents
> soplically, and analyses tho cartoo
. subject Just as he analyses problem
q in statecraft. He says: III there wa
T not great demand by the people fc
! illustrated papers of this kind the
4 would not be printed, for they wou1
;: have no support. Our people general
d know what they want, and what the
I are willing to pay for; and, therefor
u such papers have a mission. l hay
never seen anything malicious Pc
g trayed concerning myself; but thu
|. would make no difference. Public me
o belong to the people, and they mu
Il submit to oil sorts OF expression
opinion concerning themselves. Inc
x cannot expect praise Always Tor
men make Mistakes.
> Secretary Of War Lamont was Priva
y secretary to the president during Il
h first Cleveland administration, al
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