"PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES" RARE 1872 POSTER WITH 4 JUGATES INCLUDING "LABOR REFORMERS" CANDIDATES.
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Auction #211 - Part I
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Item Description
20.5x25.5" overall professionally framed. Poster includes jugates of Labor Reform Party, Liberal Republican & Democrats, National Prohibitionists, and Republican Party Candidates. Labor Reform Party candidate David Davis of Illinois was nominated by the newly formed (1870) Labor Reform Party at their February 22, 1872 National Convention in St. Louis. At that time Davis was the front runner for the Liberal Republican nomination. While Davis did not decline the nomination of the party, he decided to hinge his campaign in large part on the success of obtaining the Liberal Republican nomination so that he might at least have their resources behind him. He failed to obtain the Liberal Republican nomination but telegraphed the Labor Reform Party to inform them of his intentions to withdraw from the Presidential contest entirely. The Labor Reformers had organized to fight monopolies and defend labor's interests, an issue that seemed to be lost by the Republican and Democratic parties in the 1870s. In 1873 the party ceased to exist. Also pictured on the poster are the Liberal Republicans and Democrat candidates Greeley and Brown, Nation Prohibition Party candidates Black and Russell, and Republican candidates Grant and Wilson. The center text promotes the availability of "Portraits And Platforms, For Characters and Biographies" available through "The Phrenological Journal And Life Illustrated" publications. Bottom text reads "Phrenological Journal Print No. 389 Broadway, New York." Faint folds. NM. Rare. Julie Powell Collection.
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