Election Day Cookies

Lucy Natkiel designed many animals for

her Brown Bag cookie molds, but

not a donkey, so my election day cookies

look a bit one sided.  I make the Elephant for

my Republican friends, and the Patriotic Bear

for my Democratic friends. 

Of course the Elephant makes a very nice

paper casting too.  I have added him to my

Brown Bag mold page. 

Elephant-2001

height-5 1/2 in

width-4 3/4 in

 

 Ever wondered what the story was

behind the two famous party animals?

The Democratic Donkey and the Republican Elephant 

The now-famous Democratic donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. His opponents called him a jackass (a donkey), and Jackson decided to use the image of the strong-willed animal on his campaign posters. Later, cartoonist Thomas Nast used the Democratic donkey in newspaper cartoons and made the symbol famous.

 

Nast invented another famous symbol—the Republican elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion's skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals, the elephant, was labeled “The Republican Vote.” That's all it took for the elephant to become associated with the Republican Party.

Democrats today say the donkey is smart and brave, while Republicans say the elephant is strong and dignified.
www.factmonster.com

Library of Congress - Thomas Nast’s cartoon
shows a donkey in a lion’s skin scaring an
elephant and other animals.

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"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful

successors to bullets."
Abraham Lincoln
16^th President of the United States
(1809 - 1865)