Significant Contrasts in Gilded Age Endorsements
A sweeping list shows Charles Francis Adams and Lyman Trumbull backing Tilden while Hayes gains support from Schuyler Colfax, Jay Gould, Parke Godwin, and many others. Notable figures like Gen. Hancock, Gov. Austin Blair, Judge B. F. Thomas, and Wm. Lloyd Garrison-era names align with Tilden or Hayes, reflecting fierce party split.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Francis Adams
Tilden
Babcock
Hayes
Lyman Trumbull
Belknap
Judge Headley
Cincinnati
Hendricks
Schuyler Colfax
Indiana
Gen
Franz Sigel
Mit Tilden
Tom Murphy
Custom House
David A. Wells
Reform
Mobiler Patterson
Wheeler
Robert C. Winthrop
Benjamin F. Butler
Cowan
Pennsylvania
Indorses Tilden
Cameron
Indorse Hayes
Palmer
Jay Gould
Joe Hooker
Schenck
Emma
Hxs
Curtin
J. M.S. Williams
Credit Mobilier
John Ball
H. W. Paine
Boston
Suffolk
Robeson
Navy
Austin Blair
Michigan
Hendricka
Zac Chandler
Hayes and
Keorner
Illinois
Johnny Logan
Parke Godwin
John
Wm. A. Joyce
D. W. Gooch
Navy Yard
Hancock
Gen. McDonald
Fred. Hassaurek
Ross Hessing
William Callen Bryant
New York Evening Post
Isaac Henderson
Colonel Jessen
Carl Schurz
Internal Revenue
Chicago
Boss Shepherd
District of Columbia
Judge Stalle
Republican Party
Avery
Internal Revenue Department
B. F. Thomas
Massachusetts
Godlove S. Orth
Venezuela
Bayes
Indiana Democrats Endorse Hendricks and National Unity Platform
A Democratic platform asserts defense of common schools funding non sectarian use, opposition to party entanglement in soldiers rights, and federal debt stance. It condemns Republican interference in schools and endorses Hendricks for president while instructing state delegates to vote as a unit per majority will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
House of Representatives
Congress
District of Columbia
Indiana
Thomas A. Hendricks
Demand for Reform and Democratic Rule Across the Union
Delegates call urgent reform of the Federal Government after eleven years of civil war, denouncing tariff folly, wasteful taxation, and corrupt centralism. They urge a national shift to prudent finances, public economies, and honest civil service, demanding change of system, administration, and party to secure liberty and union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Democratic Party of the
United States
Democratic Party
High Seas
Treasury
Congress
Atlantic
Preyon
Republic
House of Representatives
Secretary of the Treasury
Navy
England
Republican Party
Declaration of Principles for Indiana Democracy
The Indiana Democracy declare fidelity to the federal constitution and local self government, warn of financial ruin and public corruption, call for honest civil service, thorough investigations, and retrenchment. They favor sound currency, oppose paper contraction, support gradual retirement of national bank notes, and condemn the 1879 specie resumption act as partisan. They emphasize wealth, peace, and reliable public credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
House of Representatives
Republican Party
National Bank
Act of Congress
It Pays It Pays What Pays GE Pays Every Manufacturer
A fragmented oddity discusses GE payments to manufacturers and workers, claiming the company fosters invention and informs households. The text hints at promoting the inventor and encouraging households to read newspapers for information and discussion on new discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boot & Shoh
Main Street
New Harmony
Ind
Washington
G. Olin
Farner
Proms
THE
Scientific American
United States
Messrs. Munn & Co
U.S
Munn & CO
Park Row
N.Y
Cor. F and
7Th Sts
Washington, D.C
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the Register
OF the
Poses County Agricultural Society
Posey County Agricultural Society
B. A. Wilkerson
L. Pelham
Vasuy Wae
Lafferty, Adjustable Pick Co
South Ia
Phila
Chamber of Commerce
H. James
Cr.ppock & Co
Philadelphia
Joseph West
Louis Prados
Duckworth
Damron
J. K. Duckworth
Main
Third Streets
Mount Vernon
John Walz
Hovey & Menzies
Attorneys- At-Law
Wie
Supreme Court of
Posey
Vanderburgh
Court House
Sepo"y Mount
Vernon
George I. Williams
Third Avenue
High Street
Evansville
WM. M. Holton, M.D
Daniel Neal
M.D. Holton & Neal
Petsician's
Rew Harmony
Holton and Neal
Church Streets
BR. F. Owen & Co
Holton & Neal
W. Hartman
J. BR
Hugo
U.S. Patent Office
F. A. Leelmann
Thrall & Mumford RE
Phoenix
Cleveland Rubber Paint Company
Mumford’s
California
Theall & Mumford’ S
Democratic National Platform
Sam
W. F. Gray, Jeweler
Postoffice
W.F. Gray
William M. Bennett
Union Hall
Hoice Media
Old Government
Java
Maricaibo
Laguayra
My16 Thrall & Mumford
J.worth & CO
St. Louis,Moe
Carlton
Washington Street
Poe Book of
Earnest
Rele Press
Dr. Detchon
Thrall & Mumford
Janky
R. Detchon
Jani
the Watch
Cc. H. Ford
J. W. Miller
Marble
Ser
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