The San Francisco call., 1904-04-20
CARTOON CAMPAIGNING.


the East His headquarters this city redolent of
the incense of nicotine and the genial influence of
gently warming beverages is not unknown there. But
otherwise his campaign is pushed more by aggression
than persuasion and there abroad suspicion that his
manager is of Tarpeyan rock from which traitors
to be thrown and frighfully mussed, rather than
grotto OF greeting and OF promise.
Now, in the East his progress toward the White
House is enlivened by pictorial illumination and the
graces of song Before the primaries in Brooklyn,
the bamy spring evening spiced by the efforts OF
singer, borrowed from vaudeville show, who made the
wekin ring and wrung applause from counrymen by
this effort
Uncle Sammy needs bold fearless plan
Who is not afraid of trust or syndicate.
Who will prove himself friend all union labor
Who to help the weak will never hesitate
Such is in is trying place.
And the syndeates if William Randolph Hearst
Should be the man to this little show
The rhyme until burst" "nursed" worst "
and all the words that will rhyme with Hearst are ex-
austed 1t strong lyric and well sung with banjo
accompaniment is call to duty not excelled by any
noise thus far heard in the campaign. But the fertile
genius OF MIR. Hearst inspired by the ambition to be
President does not stop at the of of the arts.
Music heavenly maid, good girl among the muses.,
but there others Having invoked Euterpe, Mr..
Hearst prevents jealousy in the family of Zeus, who
fathered the family, by bringing Clio into action,
As a result find spread upon the editorial page
of his New York paper cartoon, legend and text of
awe-insprng quality In the left foreground stands
mammoth, the Elphus primogenus, tusker at that 1t
is front view Across the head is the word Trusts
this terrible though extinct defyng popu-
lar prejudice by tearing into taers the stars and stripes
for that purpose using his usks and trunk In the mid
die distance is the temple of Justice falling into ruin.
portico pedimen cornce, facade and all of
a1xifa1S Of 0rde
another temple standing behind three lombardy
popars that is far gone to be identified 1t is pic
of melancholy decay. and evidently is beyond re-
pair, fit only for the lion and the lizard.
the right foreground pair of old boots. They
of the kind the feet of old gentlemen who in
their heyday drank much sherry and got phyoxera
their toes requiring that the leather be in
Sits. These boots are labeled a tag tied to of
the straps "a Lincoln" Beneath this stirring hstor-
cal effort the legend "The nation needs for leader
man of mammoth size, combat the trust mammoth.
The that filed this pair of boots like him,
would be able to handle the Colossus"
When the behoder looks upon the boots he is seized
with despair. 1t grips him like mental collie, for he
feels that volunteer will offer put those fallen
monuments of the cordwaners and, therefore, FL
phus prmogenius will continue the flag and the
dapdaton of the temples will go But the rest of
the page and all OF the diverse filled with text from
which learn that Mr. Hearsts feet exactly fit those
boots With them he engages to go fearlessy to
combat with the terrible and extinct animal and do up
that companion of the long dead dodo in round
Incident to this athletic Offer he remarks with great
and in large and audible type: The ambi
ton the esteem of others leads away from St
Helena but opens up path of true usefulness That
path he willing tread in those boots The alluson
St Helena may be obscure, but the boots there
in picture, and the people told that "humbly
following in his footsteps another Lincoln appears as
Abraham Lincoln appeared, a~the moment of greatest
need"
So, it is evident that William Randolph Hearst Abra-
ham Lincoln is abroad in the land. and if were the
legal advisers of the extinct animal with the curved
fusks would counsel him pipe all hands quarters
and clear his decks for action We close this with
out thanking Mr.~Hearst, in the name of oppressed
and about to be down-trodden people, for the pain his
shy and modest disposition has suffered in being
PEELED proclaim his equality with Lincoln. Perhaps
this explanation is tedious, but it seemed due to the
subject for boots used also by Bombastes.
FIVE million dollar ero Fund.- established