The herald., 1896-05-03
Composite Portraits of Presi.
Dental Possibilities
THE DOMINATING FEATURES
A Chance to Do Some VERY Fine Fig.
uring
Mckinley Has the Best Of II In the q. o. p.
Portrait-Wbitney Shows Prominently
In the Democratic Picture
With the eyes of all the big Democrats

With the eyes of all the big Democrats
OF the nation glued to Chicago, and the
optics of the same class of Republicans
fastened on st. Louis, and with the
whole nation guessing as TO VINO VIII
catch the respective plums to be doled
out there, the art of composite photog-
raphy may forestall the great events by
showing who the candidates will be.
The composite of the statesmen who
would like to be the standard bearer of
the Democracy in the coming fight does
not Look like any of the great men i'll
particular. but it has certain predomi-
mating features which bring the issue
down to two or three men. This picture
is made up of Richard Olney, secretary
of state; William c. Whitney. ex-secre-
tary of the navy; John Griffin Carlisle.
secretary Of the treasury; Grover Cleve-
land, Ex-Governor James c. Campbell
of Ohio Ex-Governor Robert r. Patti
son of Pennsylvania, Governor Claude
Matthews of Indiana. and the Hon.
William b. Morrison of Illinois.
Olney, Cleveland, Whitney, Campbell,
Pattison and Matthews all wear a mus
tache, Carlisle Is clean shaven and Nor
rison has a full beard. For this reason
there Is very little resemblance to Car
Isle in the picture, and Morrison is only
very faihtly outlined, although the mas
sive forehead of the latter looms up
prominently.
Mr.. Cleveland's face does not assert
itself in the picture with any degree of
glaringness, although there is some
thing more than Il suspicion of the ia
miliar lineaments of the chief executive.
The nose is there and the eyes are to be
detected. The hair is somewhat too
abundant and the mustache Is a trifie
longer and less compact than that of the
president.
The face which shows distinctly is
q nf 1fot tfy,Ar y, to-
haps due to the fact that the familiar
eyeglasses of the former secretry of the
navy are quite apparent. Many of the
other possibilities use glasses and spec
tacles, but they do not wear them hab-
itually, as is the case with Mr.. Whit
ney. and they are not photographed
while wearing them.
Aside from the eyeglasses the conf
posite picture has the diplomatic look
OF Mr.. Whitney. which shows that all
the other possibilities are more or less
automatically inclined, or this express
sion would not be so clear.
Richard Olney of the Bay state is no.
emphatically pictured in the composite
His determined, aggressive and busi-
ness-like face is quite lost by the others,
although 1t is not the habit of the secre-
tary of state to allow himself to be
pushed into the background by anyone.
put photography Is not governed by
dominating personalities. and the only
chance of distinction in composite is
to look like the others and travel in the
beaten path of facial appearances.
This is where the Hon. Claude Mat
thews, governor of Indiana, comes in.
The composite Is not such bad picture
of Indiana's great Democrat, and if he
were nominated some of the campaign
pictures would not look bit more like
him. Governor Matthews can be classe1
among the dark horses of the possibii-
ties of the Democracy, and if the con-
vention delegates go to the west to
seek standard-bearer, lightning may
hit him, although the friends of Bill
Morrison of Illinois say that he has a
first mortgage on that emergency.
The business-like face of ex-Gover-
nor Robert e. Pattson of Pennsylvania
also shows in the composite. Some of the
pictures of Governor Matthews and ex-
Governor Pattison make them look not
unlike each other, but in real life there
is big difference. Ex-Governor Pat
tison is supposed to be something more
than dark horse, from the mere fact