Lapel stud promoting the Democratic Party, 1920. Cast metal. Formed in the shape of a rooster inside a ring inscribed, I WILL CROW IN NOVEMBER. Classified as a James Cox item.
The Democratic Party mascot was originally a rooster or game cock, the jackass a calumny conceived by Republicans. The 1920 standard-bearer Cox made it a double-entendre (i.e. coxcrow) but his crushing defeat in November would retire the rooster, and when his running mate, Franklin Roosevelt, was the nominee 12 years later, the party had embraced the donkey as its mascot.
