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Title: The history of the nineteenth century in caricature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946 Cooper, Frederic Taber, 1864-1937, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern Nineteenth century Caricature
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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2 b CENTURY IN CARICATURE 277 Familiar faces among the group of noisy bandar-log are thoseof Croker, Butler, and Dana. Prostrate and helpless underthe paw of the lion is a monkey with the face of Grady. The most terrible and effective series of cartoons publishedduring the Cleveland-Blaine campaign was that in which theRepublican candidate appeared as the Tattooed Man in thepolitical show. For many weeks during the summer andautumn of 1884 Mr. Blaine was assailed through this figurein the pages of Puck. The story of the origin of this his-toric cartoon is as follows: Mr. Bernard Gillam, the artist,had conceived the idea of a cartoon in which each of thePresidential possibilities should appear as some sort of freakin a political side-show. One of these freaks was to be theTattooed Man, but Mr. Gillam at first hit upon DavidDavis as the person to be so represented. He was describingthe proposed cartoon one day in the office of Puck when Mr.Bunner, who was at that time the editor, turned

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