| Show VETERAN cartoonist OPPOSES substituting ROOSTER FOR DONKEY AS democratic SYMBOL INGTON looting looking at the photograph of his friend josephus daniels above his cartoon board clifford K Derry berryman nian washington eve ping star cartoonist recently took issue with daniels suggestion for or ot of the rooster and letting into desuetude as the democratic mascot no suh sub said berryman Der ryman it la Is impossible to pit a rooster against A on an elephant even in a cartoon 1 why the donkey has just kicked the stuffing out of the elephant elp pliant better stick to him change to a a rooster an and d the elephant would eat him film up ap berryman Derry nian cartoonist of 11 national campaigns 44 years just could not consider putting on oil hla his board the crowing cock claimed by to leave lave en art tames more style and beauty and clarion call than the donkey the elephant thi the dern dem socratic donkey the tammany Tarn many tiger were all tont tom casts creations explained nei berryman he was a most enthusiastic republican and at that time 1872 1110 republican party was at the ot of power ower ile he conceived it as an all elephant tile the animal that could pull down it a tree with its trunk 1 the democratic party ot of those days clays waz wad always talking finance tl nanco horace greeley referred to it as tile finance nance party nast construed ohp word finance in tine fine ass and mado made the donkey berryman ner ryman chuckled at what ho he considered the good turn nast intending to poke tun fun really did to the democrats as well as all the cartoonists to come good natu the democratic party adopted the symbol lie ho had figured out tor for them turned it to a symbol tor for rallying around and berryman stoutly maintained tile the donkey has justified its existence by the strength of its alck oa as demon straten in the election just past |
