Volume 18 , Issue 29

1872 Presidential Candidates

This news item of 1872, comes from the Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, dated 7 May 1872, Tuesday, page 2, gives us a view of the 1872 Presidential candidates.

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The voters of the United States could not complain of not having a variety of candidates for President from which to choose. In the order of their political strength they were, so far as nominated, as follows: David Davis, Labor Reformer; Horace Greeley, Sorehead Republican; James Black, Temperance Reformer; Victoria Woodhull, Free Love and Suffragist; George Francis Train, "People's" candidate, and Gen. Thomas A. Davies, "Uon Candidates Oaths and Pledges."
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