The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23
OFFENDED The IRISH.
Father Hayden Takes Exceptions to
Packard Cartoons.

| There was a rather unpleasant In
/ cident at the Auditorium last night in
connection with the fourth entertain
ment of the pipe organ lyceum
| Packard which is illustrated with car
/ toons and caricatures of the various
/ types of the human race who claim
1 the protection of the United States of
| America, from the original Uncle Sam
to his wards of the islande of Sulu.
| the Church of the Assumption, his sis
| ter and two other clerics of the
Roman Catholic church became Of
| Tended at series of caricatures of
Irishmen and left the Auditorium
ct left in disgust, said Father Hay
tden shortly after he and his party de-
parted "I went to the Auditorium
expecting to see something funny. In
stead of that I saw something that
was vulgar, when the cartoonist show
ed his so-calIed types of the Irish
race.
.It was a great offense to myself
and to the members of the Irish race
that our forafathers should be pic
tured and laughed at as something re-
sembling idiots" Father Hayden in
timated, that Mr.. Packard should
have been rotten-egged.
When Mr. Packard was told of the
offense he had given to certain of his
audience he expressed regret that he
he certainly had not intended to and
had not been partial to any one race
in his caricatures He said that this
was the first objection of the kind
years on the lecture platform He
added that if a rotten egg had hit him
it would have landed on an Irishman.
The pictures which offended Father
Hayden and his party purported to
show the types of four generations of
m aT1iT m no nf hoiy.
ton in this country. The first was
that of an immigrant, evidently bad
off as to worldly possessions, and
smoking clay pipe. Then came this
mans son who had risen to be
policeman and who smoked a little
better sort of a pipe. The poIiceman's
son was next. He had developed into
an alderman and nothing but fine
cigars were good enough for him
Then came the alderman's son. who
looked a good deal like a dude, and
did his smoking through the medium
Of cigarette.
During the course of Mr.. Packard's
picture lecture he drew cartoons of
country, from Boston, the Bowery of
New York. throughput the west and
the south. Porto Ricans. Cinnamon,
natives of Honolulu and even of the
island of Sulu. In caricatures of types
from the Hoozier state Mr.. Packard
said that woman, rather grotesque
picture of whom he drew, had told
him that his appearance to her and
her folks was quite as funny as was
hers to him.
Mr.. Packard drew some rather Sc
we're cartoons of the many types of the
American girl but none of them in
the audience seemed to be offended by
the pictures and laughed quite heart |
lily at their wonderful figures andt
fashions as depicted by, the artist. |
After Mr.. Packard got through hav-.I
ing fun at the expense of the s iris he
said that he really could not draw a /
picture that would do the Americana
girls real Justice SO he sang a song, to |
his own piano accompaniment, that 1
lauded2 them to the Skies. When he
got down to telling about the real |
popular girl in America Mr.. Packard |
pictured her with a single sweep /
which, made a circle and he chara cter- i
lied her as the goddess of liberty on /
the American dollar.-
A large audience attended the en- |
and if applause and APP
preciative laughter can be taken to |
mean anything, was most heartily en-
loyed by all present, with the excep-
lions as noted. 'T