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Political Parties Thomas Nast built upon this legacy and used his extraordinary skill to amplify it. For a time, the rooster also served as the symbol of the Democratic Party, but gradually the donkey replaced it in popular usage after the 1880s. Nast first used the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party in A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion published January 15, 1870, in Harpers Weekly to comment on Northern Democrats (nicknamed Copperheads) dealings with Edwin M. Stanton, Lincolns Secretary of War The name was first publicly applied to this movement in a June 1854 editorial by New York editor Horace Greeley, who said it would fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery. The first convention of the new party was only held in Pittsburgh on February 22, 1856. * * October ,2008 British and American Political Parties and Elections Objectives To understand the party system in both UK and USA. To distinguish the political difference between the Conservative and the Labour of the UK from the Democratic and the Republican of the USA. To tell the disadvantages in the British general election and that of the primary election in the USA. British Political Parties Three Major Parties in Britain Today: the Conservative Party ( in 1833) the Labour Party (in 1900) the Social and Liberal Democrats (since 1988) The first two parties have been in power by turns since 1945) the Conservative Party (also known as the Conservative and Unionist Party) A. the origin of its name Due to the religious difference of opinion, the non-Puritan Anglicans were the supports of the King and the Church. They were called “Tories” by their opponents, a term of abuse used to describe the dispossessed Irish outlaws who plundered and killed English settlers, but gradually began to stand for Loyalists (or Cavaliers) whose politica