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The leader among these anti-Republican newspapers was the accredited Jackass of the Democratic Party, buť Nast clothed the animal in the skin of a lion and made it bray the siren song of "Caesarism." ...

Nast picked on Republicans as well as Democrats. In his Nov. 7, 1874 cartoon labeled “Third Term Panic,” Nast commented on Republican Ulysses Grant’s consideration of a third term as president.

As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly issue dated November 7, 1874, that edition of the magazine appeared on the ...

On November 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI Nov. 7 (UPI) -- On this date in ...

In 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. In 1916, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected and Republican ...

According to the Smithsonian Magazine, “It was a time when political cartoons… really had the power to change minds and sway undecided voters by distilling complex ideas into more compressible ...

This political cartoon by Thomas Nast, taken from a 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly, was an early use of the elephant and the donkey to sybolize the Republican and Democratic parties. | getarchive.net ...

Nast depicted the donkey in several works, which started as his dislike for the democrats. The Republican elephant also owes its rise to Thomas Nast, who used it in an 1874 cartoon published in Harper ...

The Republican Elephant The story of the Republican elephant’s origin is also connected to Nast’s artistry. While the elephant had appeared in Civil War-era imagery as a symbol of bravery in combat, ...