The representative., 1895-04-24
CARICATURES OF PUBLIC MEN.
The President is Said Not to TAX.
kindly to Such Productions.

The President is Said Not to Take
Kindly to Such Productions.
Bernhard Gillian Of Judge says that most
men like to be caricatured.
when l want a mans photograph l
write to him and tell him that l have moth
ing that is good to get his features from,
and though he knows I'm going to use it
against him, he almost invariably sends on
the picture. A cartoonist can make a pol
itician by keeping him before the public.
Most of them rather enjoy seeing them
selves twisted out of shape You know
Mr.. Gladstone knighted Tenniel after all
Punchs ridicule 1 once caricatured
George William Curtis rather severely.
few days later l received a very pleasant
note with photograph, saying that from
my work he judged my picture of him was
very old and rather poor, and he wanted
to give me a better chance in the future.
That was a man we were f1ghting>and pict-
uring in stays.
David B. Hill enjoys being caricatured
l once drew him dog mad, with
a tin pail, labeled Presidential Aspira-
tions,' tied to his tail. 1 was going up
the country. At the station I saw him,
and, feeling little delicate about the mat
ter, l went through the train to my car
to avoid meeting him on the platform.
To my surprise he met me at the door,
and as we spoke, asked why I had avoided
him. 1 told him frankly. He said: My
dear boy, never feel that way. 1 don't
mind the least bit. 1 like it. The more
you pound the better for me. If you keep
drawing awful pictures of me, people all
over the country will think L m good deal
of a man. On the other hand, ex-senator
Hiscock doesn't like to be caricatured.
Neither does Mr.. Cleveland. He is quite
sensitive. Some friends of mine who know
him very we'll met him in Washington a
while ago. He asked about us here. and if
my friends ever came here They said they
n ho rod
right when he was with Puck, but since
then he has been all wrong Once I drew
him and Hill dancing together at some
time when they were working in harmony.
Hill laughed at 1t. The paper was passed
around in Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland's pres
ence at dinner. She thought it funny,
but when he examined it he looked solemn
and threw the paper down.
you've heard Of Louis Plillippe's pear
shaped head Mr. Cleveland has one also,
which is most pronounced. We look for
circles and squares and animals in heads.
William NJ. Evarts' shows squares. Ami
mails are the easiest Almost every face
suggests something of the kind 1t is so
easy to make bearded man, with glasses,
like Charles A. Dana, into an owl. But
our work is not so easy as it need to be.
We'd like some striking men. Mr. Cleve-
land is pictured till we're tired of it, He
has to bear the brunt of the administration
caricature. Now that Bissell has gone he
has cabinet that it's hard to do any thing
with. They are all ordinary looking people.
Carlisle is awful. Wilson is of little use.
You can't make much of him but country
school teacher with his thin face and mus
tache.
1--WE have TO be simpler than the old en-
gravers, who worked for limited public,
and our cartoons are more general in appli-
cation. 1t doesn't do to use Dante splen-
did as he would be for suggesting themes.
I once worked out fine idea series
founded on The Ancient Mariner but 1
had to give it up. 1 was afraid that too
many people would ask, Who was Coler-
idge? New York Tribune.