The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

sYn there an association in your mind between the Republican party ana aa a1ephant? The cartoon did that as there a suggestion of the DemocIallc 2 party In the picture of oonAss s . The caricaturist did that Does sne mention of Tammany Hall bring oe- tore your mind the picture of ugert ' FAa you remember Mark Hanna as 2 man with big ears and dollar maIH auff of cIothes7 When you hear the phrase common people" do you tninA of little man with big ears ana speS- faxles? Can you think of the Presi- 4hnf of inc United States without his nfcfnriai accoutrements of khaki uni xorm and his big stick? The cartoon ksfsfsxed these impressions in your mino. 4fa4 took an abstract political theory ar n conventional personality, and Witn hle pencil he produced which Wouiu represent that theory or personatssy !. Hass ordinary man may not rememoer shAtract politics-he cannot forget '"e concrete picture. o.
 Politicians recognize the power oL zhe cartoon recognize It with rear aho respect. The last effort made In tne rnited States to impair the freeoom cf the press was when Governor Ten, nvDacker of Pennsylvania attempteo sr stav the nencils of the cartoonfsts. He failed, and Is doomed to ignomlhy iSs The memories of the vast majority or the people of the United States.
 The cartoon appeared first in Ameri- aan politics at the same time the people Mxst began to vote for presloent-iA the epoch when Andrew Jackson was 4ha dominant figure in national anairs. Iaarnon xuaR attacked iT cartoons wffrh represented him as murderer. Pictures of six cofiins of men whom Ahad hanged were sent broadcast oyer the country. The Jackson sup narfsrs retaliated with cartoons de- p41ting John Quincy Adams ano henry Clay in the act of sealing their cor xupt bargain.
 essne more and more important In each igrextdentiai campaign. By 1Sb6. the Mxat campaign year in whtch the Ne- nisblican party figured. beautifully 1f4hoRraphed cartoons were prepared for sale to the supporters of each can dlaate at a uniform price of ten cents eaeh. The influence of. the cartoon - marked. but the cartoonist had ssat yet arrived. The Autographs were ,assaa to order from suggestions of poll tffoIana. The artists skill counted Tor l5kkte and the force of the argument xeSm usually in the long speeches con naCfed with the mouths of the speakers bs loops. s
 
 cafne: Three outs and One Run. Ahra- hasn winning the ball". In the picture zgms Lincoln, with split rail for q bat anM Douwlar. Breckinridge and Bell. whom Lincoln defeated for the presi. aencv. Lincoln wore 8 belt lenelleo .lae awake, and from his mouth ls msaa8. fhis speech: "Gentiemen, if any of - shouId ever take hand in another rsa4ch a4 this game, remember that 2 you must have g good bat and strike Safs hnfi to make a clean hit and score ssasasna runs. Each of the other three nanaidates was making speech equal sv as long, and with equal success m sr Ebrporating baseball lingo. Every dekan of the picture was explained and nothing was left to me 'nasinA- ti0n. T., Al, eaeyeIand PIain-Dealer few weeks aen ahngved a baseball game in pro- srreus. freddy was at the plate with Dat in hand. ready to smash the ball. Tagt was standing to one side. looking down at the ground. Uncle same was ~svsnsr asav. freddy. why don't you let FtIi bat for himself!" The cartoonist permitted the picture to tell the whole nafs,ation and there was necessity Tor but one line of explanation
 qaa cfvii War produced the first and 4s4n greatest of cartoontsts-Thoma Mast. He was to the cartoon what xxraaIv and Dana and Bennett were to Journalism. Mir. Lincoln said: Thomas Nant is our best recruiting sergeant. (seneral Grant declared that Mast was 4ha foremost figure in civil life pro- dueed by the war. Great as was his work during the war, he did not reach tl4a height of his power until several years later
 en Mast began to draw there were ~aaf rsrtoonfst-Uncle Sam, Miss Columbia nua ahe American eagle. Mast invent aa and added to them the Republican n4nnhant. the Democratic donkey and fhs Tammany tiger. In 1870, in Harp srs Weekly, he began the great car loon campaign against Boss Tweed and ff,e corrupt Tammany Hall gang then s- rontrol of New York City. The ring wsa broken up, Tweed was disgraced. nnd the whole gang of boodlers and uraffers was overthrown. Mast was rfTen entire credit by the chief party at interest. Boss Tweed, who said: sePeople read the newspapers and they only half believe them; but when they took at all these pictures day after day sand week after week, they get to think 4faat eyeryth ing in them really happen ad just as though they had seen It for themselves"
 Nast invented the famous Tweed DOT .frait with the money bag head. which hns been used over and over again by eartoonists in denuncfation of other .ssrnoney bags. Perhaps the most fam cue of all Mast cartoons was Let Us T7re,''. in which Tweed was depleted as horrible Vulture among his companion birds of prey.
 Mast was not only a great cartoon fat but he was his own master. He aften did not agre with the political editor of Harper's Weekly. George Will Ham Curtis. and he would draw no eartoons unless he believed in them. HIS genius was not for sale or hire. TFs had his own opinions and his own sn6iyiduality. He declined to support esarfield in 1880, but he did attack Gen eraf Hancock, the opposing Democratic s4erninee. Four years later he came out aduarely against Mir. Blaine and was uerhaps the greatest power in the vyaa3wvunp movement which placed Mir rz9sveIand in the White House. But there came a day when there was no yYaace for a cartoonist like Mast who w0uid not obey orders. He died in 980s at Guayaquil. Ecuador, where he vyas United States consul.
 Tn the campaign of 1884 Pluck print AN n cartoon by Bernard Gillam over ske title '"rhe Tattooed Man. It pie tered Blaine, the Republican candidate ,~gsfh the names of the legislative scan- sala in which he was involved tattooed mgl over his body. It was a horrible cavtoon, and 1t almost drove Blaine to abstraction. Blaine wanted to prose- ~ssea To,.cx but his friends dissuaded