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Outstanding in the cartoon history of the 1928 campaign have been: For the Republicans, Cartoonist Thomas Edwards Powers of the Hearst newspapers; for the Democrats, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World. John Tinney McCutcheon's work on the Chicago Tribune (Republican) has been, except for his "Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance...
...Nominee Smith had answered the attack on his legislative record made by Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette. Editor White retracted the more disgraceful part of his charges. The G. O. P. at no time took official credit or responsibility for the White work. Many another cartoon was drawn about this episode. In his retraction, issued just before sailing to Europe, Editor White said : "I'm throwing no mud at. Governor Smith." A picture at once suggested itself and was drawn ? a little man on the stern of a steamer sloshing a mudball...
...Kirby cartoon of the G. O. P. saying "Tammany!" in the midst of its rogues' gallery has been broadcast as Democratic propaganda. Last week "Frank J. McKenna of Excelsior, Minn., and friends" paid $137.20 to insert it as an advertisement in the pro-Hoover Minneapolis Tribune...
...Smith) when seen off duty, often has had, before evening enough drinks to be visibly stimulated thereby." You have given us a full page picture of what the President of the United States ought not to be. Often a sentence or a few words in your articles gives a cartoon, or cinema of a personage or event, and one's imagination don't have to go far to form the sequel. You might remember the Irish ditty about the Pig in the Parlor...
...Senator Moses, himself no scorner of cocktails, said he had received "plenty" of letters protesting about Worker Willebrandt. The arch-Democratic New York World turned, of course, from anger to glee and redoubled its editorial sniping at "Mabel" and "sectarianism." More serious was a cartoon published broadcast by the pro-Hoover Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, showing a church daubed with "Politix" and the G. O. P. spanking a naughty child. The caption was "Give this little girl a great big hand...