Learn the story of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant
Learn the story of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant
Posted, 11.9.2016 21:34
{INTERNATIONAL: Euphrates News} What do you know about the symbolic key parties in the United States, the Democratic and Republican, and a symbol of the democratic donkey and the Republican elephant symbol, the two parties that is being fueled by the US election race since its inception until now.
According to the achievement of a media story dating back to January 15, 1870, when a black donkey “stubborn” as a symbol of the Democratic Party quill cartoonist Thomas Nast afternoon, the magazine “Harper ‘s ” weekly pages. It is noteworthy that a donkey names in English – jackass – is also used to describe a stupid person. The fee Nast donkey, kicking a lion dead, as a sharp political commentary on the disposal of the Democrats newspapers hastened after the death of the Minister of War a former Republican government of Abraham Lincoln, to attack and insult late.
He was a painter to draw a cartoon called “donkey neighborhood kicking a dead lion” in reference to such English confirms that the donkey alive better than a dead lion. As Phil Republicans, Vsmh Nast magazine itself in the November 7 in 1874, after 3 days on the Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives, and for the first time since the end of the civil war. The Republican Nast make fun of his colleagues in the party, draw Wilhelm as he walked toward the hole in the ground, to escape the donkey Democrats who wear the skin of a dead lion attacked the elephant kicks.
The ass this time symbolizes the “New York Herald” that US President portrayed the 18 Republican Gen. Ulysse Grant , like “Julius Caesar contemporary” which seeks for a third term. Grant himself was a fan of creativity Nast,
he said after winning the elections in 1868: “Two things helped me: Saif Sheridan {one of the generals who fought in the Civil War} and the pen of Thomas Nast.” In subsequent years, Nast and continued to develop the story of the donkey and elephant, so these became symbols known in the United States as a whole to refer to political rivals eternal.
It has become the Democrats are proud Bhmaarham Dedicated them Republicans, but they did not Ihol to an official symbol of the party until Alan.anthy
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