"Frightfulness!!" (The Suffragist, cover, 26 August 1916)
A woman voter holds out a key marked 'Vote' toward an imprisoned 'Eastern Suffragist', and the Democratic donkey blocks her, saying that if she uses it he will be 'terribly antagonized'. The tell: the party is shown as a donkey standing in the way, and 'Frightfulness' borrows a charge then made against the German army.
The cover of The Suffragist for 26 August 1916, published in Washington, D.C. by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage for a domestic audience. A woman voter holds out a key marked 'Vote' toward an imprisoned 'Eastern Suffragist', and the Democratic donkey blocks her, saying he will be 'terribly antagonized' if she uses it. The record notes the Union's 1916 policy of opposing the party in power. Name-calling is the tagged technique: the party appears as a donkey in the way, and 'Frightfulness' borrows a charge then made against the German army.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- August 26, 1916
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (The Suffragist, Washington, D.C.)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Elections and party politics
- Event
- US Woman Suffrage Campaign
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1916, before 1931); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 2020635506. "Frightfulness!!" (The Suffragist, cover, 26 August 1916)
