THE POST, Lancaster & Philadelphia, Nov. 8, 1884

• Election victory of President Grover Cleveland

A nice and rather dramatic issue on the election of Grover Cleveland as President, with a huge portrait of him on the front page captioned; "OUR NEXT PRESIDENT "The Kind of a 'Sheriff' Who Will Turn The Rascals Out" with related front page heads on the election results.
The back page has an equally large portrait or: "OUR NEXT VICE PRESIDENT" "Counted Out Once--This Time Fraud Will Not Be Triumphant" with related heads on the election results.
More reporting inside including a political cartoon.
Four pages, minor perforation near the top right margins affecting very little, nice condition.

Background: This rare four-page issue of The Post (Lancaster & Philadelphia, November 8, 1884) is a prized artifact of Gilded Age political journalism, published just days after the 1884 presidential election when the nation ended a 24-year streak of Republican control in the White House. The front page features a striking portrait of Grover Cleveland—dubbed "The Kind of a 'Sheriff' Who Will Turn The Rascals Out"—a direct reference to his early tenure as Sheriff of Erie County, New York, which established his national reputation for fierce political independence, battling Tammany Hall corruption, and driving civil service reform. Equally dramatic is the back page portrait of Vice President-elect Thomas A. Hendricks under the headline "Counted Out Once—This Time Fraud Will Not Be Triumphant," evoking the bitter loss of the contested 1876 Tilden-Hendricks ticket in the wake of the Compromise of 1877 and framing the 1884 Democratic victory as historic vindication. Complete with detailed interior coverage and a prominent political cartoon highlighting the notorious mudslinging of the campaign, surviving complete four-page issues of this localized Democratic victory paper are exceptionally scarce, serving as an extraordinary primary-source record of the election that broke the Post-Civil War Republican monopoly on the presidency.