The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-31
4 nav FoHcE IN Pou7IcE
The Political Cartoon Poster and II
Great Work.


Great Work.
About the value Of highly artistic
cartoon posters as feature Of campaign
work, an innovation made by Mr.. f. b.
Loomis, with the hearty approval Of
Chairman Kurtz, the Columbus Dis.
patch says editorially:
The Ohio campaign has seen the in.
auguration Of that which we believe
will be a favorite power Of the cam
paign committee hereafter. We refer
to the use of the cartoons which the
Republican committee is sending broad.
cast throughout the state. This idea il
an adaptation Of the English method
of campaigning, but, as far as we know,
it is almost entirely an innovation in
Ohio at least, and perhaps in the other
states. 1t must be apparent to all that
the political cartoons are not only more
effective in their special mission, but
also moro harmless than the great mass
of literature which has formed nucleus
Of the work of the literary bureaus of
the past. The cartoon puts before the
people comprehensive argument and it
expresses it so plainly that all who run
may read. Before . cartoon at least q
thousand per cent more people will
pause than those who will read . oam-
paign document. The cartoon points
u moral and adorns a tale," If we may
use that time honored expression ad-
visedly and justly, and it requires no
diagram or explanation for even the
most illiterate of voters. The argument
Of the orthodox campaign document is
usually concealed under a mass of
words and perhaps behind bulwark of
alleged, supposed or real historical fact.
The cartoon may excite more vivid
anger and may stir up greater partisan
ship, but it is better than the majority
of campaign literature. Therefore we
think that the day Of the cartoon in
Ohio has just dawned and that it will
expand into a great force in the future
elections. Without cartoons English
elections would be almost barren ideal
tiles. Who will say that the same
thing can not be said about elections in
Ohio in the future. The day of the
campaign document is almost gone.
The newspaper is now the source from
which the voters draw the bulk Of their
political education and information.
With the newspaper for the fireside and
the cartoon for the street, there will be
furnished dual force which must
surely have great effect upon the
voters in any community.
He Isn't Fiji
Judge Blandin of Cleveland, that
honest old Democrat, said in a recent
interview of Calvin s. Brice:
It's humiliating to be . citizen of Ohio.
and have New Yorker come to the st ate
in his private car, try and boss things and
make q canvass for United States senator.
Judge Blandin further remarked:
You may say this: 1 am not going to
vote for any man for the legislature un-
less he is equivocally committed to vote
against Brice for United States senator.
1 shall support the state officers, but not
the Legislative candidates who expect to
put Brice back into the senate.
"What about Senator Brice's declara-
ton that he is going to make Governor
Campbell presidential possibility"
He'll do nothing of the kind, but, of
course, he must say that for effect. Brice
is a candidate for the presidential chair
himself, and he wouldn't do anything to
injure his own chance. Neither did he
say what he would do to trade Campbell
for legislature candidates.
what are your chief objections
against Brice for SENATOR"
Citizen of New York.
In the first place he is a citizen of New
York, and then he doesn't represent my
views on the monetary question and he
isn't fit to be senator.