Roar!

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 The Tiger demolishes liberty.  Emperor Tweed watches from his box.  Thomas Nast.
 

Nast.


1893 US cartoon referencing Tammany Hall, caricatured as a Tiger. Published in "Puck"; cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper. 
 

 This cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman depicts the two big winners on New York’s Election Day, 1917 – Women’s Suffrage, and the Tammany Hall political machine, represented by the Tammany Tiger. 
 

 Nast has something to say about Horace Greeley, who so opposed the re-nomination of President Grant that he allied himself with the Tiger.

The queue is the lifeline for the tiger. The Democrats are reinvigorated by raising “The Chinese Question” and their legislative triumph to drive the Chinese out. By referring to the Democrats as the Tammany Tiger, Nast makes an unmistakable comparison to the corrupt Tweed era. At last, this tiger has found something to hold onto. In a twist of irony, the Chinese, by their very existence, have empowered the Democrats.  Democrats had been on the wrong side of slavery, and the losing side in the Civil War. By exploiting racial fears, Democrats, with a strong Irish constituency, found a receptive audience by stoking Sinophobia in communities where a visible Chinese presence could be targeted.  Repeatedly and effectively, the Democrats pointed to Chinese “otherness” to swell their ranks and influence of political power. “The Chinese Must Go” made famous by Irish-born Denis Kearney in California, soon became a roaring anthem across the nation.  Thomas Nast.


The Tiger's Prey, Samuel Ehrhart.
 

Bob Satterfield mocks the would be reformer Dave Hill, 25 April 1904.


The good doctor chimes in.
 


The election of 1892. Tammany swung the victory to Cleveland by delivering the state of New York.  Victor Gillam.
 

 Winsor McCay.
 

Winsor Zenic McCay.  I suspect this is aimed at Al Smith.
 

 The Tamannany Tiger and P. T. Bridgeport, the perfect depiction of politicking on both sides of the aisle.  Walt Kelly, 1955.
 

 As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?


and then something went BUMP!
how that bump made us jump!
we looked!
then we saw him step in on the mat!
we looked!
and we saw him!
the cat in the hat!



 

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