The cartoon, titled “The Third Term Panic,” showed a donkey (representing the Herald and the Democratic press) wearing a lion’s skin (labeled “Caesarism") to frighten a group of animals ...

The Donkey of Democracy antedates the Republican Elephant by more than four years. It was in the issue of Harper's Weekly for Jan. 15, 1870, that the long-eared animal dropped off the tip of Nast ...

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.

You may be surprised to learn that the relationship between the elephant and donkey and political parties in the U.S. goes all the way back to the mid-1800s. Read on to find out how we got here.

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 cartoon depicted various animals representing different interest groups. Among them was a donkey dressed in lion's skin warning the other animals of the dangers of a Grant dictatorship .

He drew the elephant four years later in a cartoon called Third-Term Panic. GRADDY: It shows an elephant labeled The Republican Vote, sort of stumbling around, possibly going to fall through ...

It’s easy to recognize these political symbols. | id-work/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (donkey and elephant); Justin Dodd/Mental Floss (question mark) It all started with an insult. During ...

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States through a combination of political satire and popular culture, primarily driven by cartoonists in the 19th century.Here's how ...

The cartoon depicted various animals representing different interest groups. Among them was a donkey dressed in lion's skin warning the other animals of the dangers of a Grant dictatorship .