Show I 1 pr P r CF IY 11 I 1 torn tom N of if hat har 8 fl M izene go given van credit for or intro deton of E elephant I 1 tiger donkey etc vav fah 11 and did the elp t j at iti b i emde ade mark of the i I 1 P thi question propounded tu a anber nn aber ber of lending republicans it 11 f r ter national convention revealed the fact that few had tiny any but the lie most hazy idea how or when the emblem came to be adopted the new york tribune observes erves chauncey M depew who Is aid to have attended every republican gathering ilace nce 1856 IS ic said frankly that he know but lie believed the elephant first appeared on the stage in the campaign of SS 88 senator lodge of massachusetts an fevered few ered if I 1 were to make a guess I 1 would lay the invention on tom nast of harpers Ilar pers I 1 believe that the creation was the result of the adoption of the tiger by Tn inmany we let them show us dust anil and we went right to their own territory the jungle and got the elephant to fight the alger there iipp appears ears to be evidence to support the belief that nast created not only the elephant but also the tiger and the democratic donkey as well the caricaturist Is said to have adopt el cl the donkey in january 1870 basing the selection on the democratic Democrat le party reputed ability to do the lie wrong thin thing so carefully and persistently the tiger as an attribute of tammany Is shown by uno Metal records to late date froni from tweeds downfall in engine company no 0 of which tweed hail had been a foreman carried a stuffed tiger on its engine though the reason Is not now known so nast kast during the crusade against alie tweed ring having in mind I 1 tweeds connection both with the volunteer fire department and alth tammany symbolized the latter in his cartoons as a tiger in november it Is related the was introduced by nast to ont int the republican vote indich w liichi it tatt time appeared to be timid and for the same saine reason it loline in anif the party emblem soon after the selection of the camel as the alil in of the needs no explanation bearing in mind that biasi vell no no n ili lity to go for a long ion tinie w ii tit ill a biluk |