Show st bi air 91 aly 1 I t ic I 1 Z ov oil I 1 SK 1141 f 1 I f N q Z mir zap X 1 11 all MIT RNA y M sa 47 V 7 aw by elivio SCOTT WATSON N KANSAS CITY AJO there a public auditorium with a seating lacity of down in 11 texas they are planning to build a similar hall which will hold and these two great structures will be itsek fiedt june to stable our political zoo that Is to say the RL national convention at which candidates for president and NN vi ce president of the united states b areto be nominated will be held it city 4 cline tayo weeks later june 20 the demo C will meet in houstan to name their stan P dard bearers in the 1928 T lie k can apo Is cletty much a animal affair consisting of an bearing the legendary brand of 10 0 P of course ibe figure of a bull may be seen by some lurking in the shadows but it will be only a ghostly animal reminiscent of the alays of 1012 7 lre democratic zoo is richer in number and 17 ir t akl foremost lore roost ost is the me nonkey macij is in us its ly the symbol oi of the democratic pa party arty ii ns s the elephant is of the but ninny many persons persona of the Jeffers jeffersonian onlan and jacksonian political per suasion will tell you that the rooster Is the true bythol of their party the tammany tiger will also he be much in evidence at houston since one of the lending candidates learned how to crack the ringmasters ring masters whip in tammany hall As for the came camel symbol of the idrys drys where will it be stabled rn kansas city or in houston uston it may be welcomed into both and then again 11 II amny be cast out by both into the desert nir where at it la supposed to flourish the use of anese symbols tor for political parties or certain fati factions gibris in them has become a n recognized part of our political history and nearly every ane one of them has an interesting history the rooster as on an emblem of the democrats wa was the first to appear on the scene tind and it came about it tills this way in 1840 joseph chapman was a democratic candidate for the indiana legislature irom from hancock ancock II county things were looking gloomy tor for the democrats at that time for it was soon niter after the panic in van burens administration and the whigs under the leadership of gen william henry harrison the hero billero of tippecanoe were developing deve de eloping lobIng great strength about that time george Patt lson editor of the indianapolis constitution wrote to a certain Wili william larb sebastian of greenfield as follows 1 I have been informed hy by a democrat that in one part art I 1 of your county thirty van buren men have turned for please let me know if such be the fact I 1 think such euch a deplorable state of fact cannot exist if so BO I 1 will visit hancoch ancock II and address the people relative to 16 tho the policy of the democratic party I 1 have no time to spare but I 1 will refuse to eal or sleep or reat so long us as anything con can be done do for heavens sake stir up the see chapman Chapm nn tell telf him not to do its us he did heretofore lie ile used to create unnecessary alarm lie he must crow we have much to crow over I 1 will insure this county to give a democrat ma of aw votes spare no pains this letter napp happened ened to fall into the hands of the whigs who promptly aly published it in nn an paper na as nm ar cans of ridiculing the democrats Ho however weier it had the appo opposite site effect and crow chapman Chapm nn crow became the slogan of the indiana democrats when the indiana sentinel was launched in 1841 as U it carried at the he top of the front page liage the picture of a proud rooster er rind and under tinder it the slogan of crow chapman crow in time tills symbol spread all oyer over the country became the he popular emblem of the party it Is still much in u use s e by y the democrats themselves til although though the more widely used symbol jy by cartoonists Is the donkey the donkey as well as the republican elephant ond and the Ta tiger Is the product of at tho genius of one of the greatest cartoonists this hla country hns L ver known thomas nast a 0 bavarian by birth came to tills country ns as a boy in school he was vas more interested in drawing pictures than ho he was in ills his books bonks and at the age of sixteen ile hp took some gome of his drawings to the editor of lesliea Le wt wc ekly who hired him for the princely prIncel 7 sum of four dollars a week to draw illustrations of news eve events ints nast left Lest lestler Le les in asco an fn for a 0 position on the new w york illustrated news kewa but it W was as not until lie he began drawing for or harpers wee weekly lily that lie attracted much notice 41 f hythe the third year of the civil war his war picture which stirred the pairl patriotic otle blood of the north Is orth and set sent hundreds eds of young oung men to join 11 th 0 c e colors had made him hill known throughout the country r z benl lincoln was waa said to have 1 t b 4 t i de declared anred ante unit casts car cartoons boas were lithe the best recruiting sergeants on the side elile of the 64 union after the civil war nast cartoons came into even ven greater great br fame as lie he turned his attention to the he heated politics of the times the great contest at that time was between president johnson tint and U edwin dwin at stanton the secretary of war who whom M johnson johnon was wai trying to remove from office nast kast was strongly anti and pro stanton when stanton died just after his elevation to jo the supreme court couri bench by president grant the hitter bitter feelings of bf the johnson stanton feud fend had bad by no means died down and southern democratic papers attacked stanton even in their obituary notices on oil january 15 1870 nast drew his first donkey cartoon it pictured stanton as a dead lion kicked by a donkey labeled copperhead papers underneath were the lines A live jackass kicking a dead mon lion and such euch a lion I 1 and such a jackass Jac kassl 1 it Is curious to note that this cartoon was a small one burled buried on the last page of harpers weekly among the for cleansing powders sewing machines uni mid such was the humble beginning of a symbol which was to receive nailon wide recognition nast did not immediately repeat the donkey symbol lie had others for the democratic Democrat id party the serpent in some cases and the fox to in others soon after the appearance of the donkey emblem nast gave to the world another political symbol fn an 1870 1810 william at tweed was wad the boss of new york and he was ruling with a high hand the new Y york ork times rind and harpers weekly were virtually the only papers which had the courage to oppose tweed nast especially had fought tweed with hes stinging caricatures until tweed is said to have exclaimed lets stop them d n pictures I 1 dont care so much what the papers write about me my constituents cant read but d ln l n it they can see fee the pictures casts reply to this threat was a cartoon in harpers dated november 11 1871 which appeared just two days before election it showed tweed as roman emperor in the lie coliseum beaming down upon the scene icen of a giant tiger rending the helpless form of the republic on the tigers collar was the word americus Amerl cus the name nr me of tweeds club of which the tiger was the badge that tiger of casts literally tore tweeds ring to pieces only one of its mer members abers was reelected elected re and all were indicted for fraud uy by the next week another art had till adopted opted chii alie tiger as the lie Tamina nv symbol and from that hat time on tammany and tiger were synonymous synoni nases invention of the elephant ns as n symbol lymb ol 01 of the republican party came about in a half affectionate jab tit at his own political party in 1874 the republicans faced their first defeat since coming into power in asoo it was not a airest presidential year but in new york samuel J tilden fighting against the republican governor john A dix was making a double edged fight for that office tilden appealed tip pealed to 10 all classes of voters for he had been a prosecutor of tweed and lie he was also a member of the reformed tammany hall the strength of the democrats lay not in any local issue or in the power of their candidate th ere was a notional issue at strike stake whether or nota not a resident president of the united states should have a third term terin resident president grant was vas believed to be determined to run for president again in 1870 1871 the principal opponent to 0 o the iden idea was james gordon hennetta bennetts new york fork herald which shrieked incessantly 1 and declared that alx roust must be struck down to punish grant the new york world and even the tribune chimed in the chorus and the new nev york times gravely yarned earned it Is no not t Grantis iii chatis ta at astl stake ok in I 1 at this cr crucial iclal moment nast drev arev his cartoon sh shoeing owing the first republican elephant it iwasa was callei called the term panic the new york herald an ass dressed la in a lions skin labeled Is braying loudly loudl yand and all of the animals in the forest are fleeing in n alarm the erlb une Is shown as a giraffe the world work as an 0 owl dropping an arithmetic book the times as a unicorn with a monocle at the edge of an neiss abyss barely hidden by broken planks murt unarmed ed inflation repudiation reform Tam tammany maby tind reconstruction Is a huge elephant marked re publican vote nearby Is a liala concealed foa fal with features suggesting tiddens Til dens and labeled democratic party two weeks later after a the lie election of tilden and for the first time in fifteen years sears a republican house of represent representatives nt ives nast drew a sequel to that cartoon it showed the elephant tumbling down into the pit with the rotten planks and the rejoicing animals following and it was ivis called caught in a trap the result of the third term hoax from that time on the elephant was repeatedly the symbol of the republican party in the nast ui but it was w not until that he showed the donkey and the elephant together definitely marked republican party and democratic party in this cartoon the elephant lay asleep before the white house while the donkey was jumping over n cliff into chaos despite the lie efforts of et senator bayard ard to pull it hack brick hv by the lie tall ashe ashe exclaims ercla ims hold on and tit you may inny walk over oer the sluggish animal up tip there yet other cartoonists were quick to fo adopt casts symbolism and for foi the last fifty years apar the republican elephant th the Velo democratic cratic donkey and the tammany tiger have been recognized members ul ui our political politic til zoo just when the caniel camel as the emalea of the prohibition party joined it or which artist Is responsible Is unknown hut but the camel came which traditionally tradition tilly can go without a 9 drink for such long periods of time was to so oln bously a symbol of the party which sought to make the country dry that no such orlina originality lity ns as wis was shown in fasts invention indention was necessary to bring it t into being since the passage of the eighteenth amendment ind and the consequent decline of it the he pro it a party the camal tina has played placed but little part in the profession process ibri however thin the wet and dry issup Js Is r still till a concern of both parties hns bris served to kepp epp tills this hump backed symbol alive although ench party Is cautious about taking the bold step of ing it with its own emblem the P political zoo added a new member in 1012 1 when dent roosevelt led a revolt in the ranks odthe of the republican party after the tinn of of william Wil linin howard taft at chicago Cli leago the name adopted for the new third party was wa the progressives Progress ives lyo but it IL would time have been difficult to have fymbo symbolized 11 zed the progressives Progress ives with an aut aul mal ns as striking q as either tl alie ie i alcan elephant or the democratic donkey by a lucky circumstance st rince bow however dver such a symbol soon furnished them one day newspaper reporters seeking out colonel rosevelt Roser pit whose robust health had been threatened with a breakdown asked ailin hox bow he felt the reply was characteristic of the rough rider and exponent ident of the strenuous life V 1 I like a bull moose he exclaimed if and was the now political cimbol i born bior such a hardy ani animal milf flowe ver the ibe bull had a short existence it w strung strong enough c to help hell the democratic doaley detent defeat me lie republican ele pliant in 1912 but soon afterwards it id jut of the political leal picture I 1 j y |