One decisive element in this election was the campaigning of Kansas governor and Prohibition Party nominee John St. John, while the loser of this election had been previously investigated for his brokership of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad.
One decisive element in this election was the campaigning of Kansas governor and Prohibition Party nominee John St. John, while the loser of this election had been previously investigated for his brokership of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. The main wing of the losing party paid for the Greenback campaign of Benjamin Butler, who himself had stood for the Democratic nomination, and the formation of a splinter party led by Carl Schurz and George Curtis was prompted by the nomination of the man also known as the "Plumed Knight." For ten points, Parson Burchard's eleventh-hour characterization of Democrats as the party of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" was a pivotal moment in what presidential election, which saw James G. Blaine defeated by Grover Cleveland?
One decisive element in this election was the campaigning of Kansas governor and Prohibition Party nominee John St. John, while the loser of this election had been previously investigated for his brokership of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad.
the presidential election of {1884}