The donkey has long been the popular symbol of the Democratic Party. At the Democratic Convention last week, there seemed to be a movement on foot to do away with the little beast. A picture of a donkey in the Chicago Stadium was taken down and replaced by one of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Campaign buttons, distributed by the thousands, displayed not a donkey but a rooster. Last week donkey-minded Democrats, alarmed at this monkey business, were circulating pro-donkey propaganda—a stylish speech made by Arizona's Democratic Senator Henry F. Ashurst in 1930:
The donkey...
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