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Dramatic issue on the controversial 1876 Presidential election...
Dramatic issue on the controversial 1876 Presidential election...
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March 20, 1877
THE DAILY TELEGRAM, Washington, D.C., March 20, 1877
* 1876 contentious presidential election
* President Rutherford B. Hayes victory
The front page has a dramatic report on the contentious 1876 election involving Hayes vs. Tilden.
Hayes won however it was one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history. Its resolution involved negotiations between the Republicans and Democrats, resulting in the Compromise of 1877, and on March 2, 1877, the counting of electoral votes by the House and Senate occurred, confirming Hayes as President.
The first column has: "A FUNERAL PALL Hangs Over the Republic While A Fraudulent Usurper Occupies The White House" followed by an engraving of an upside-down U.S. Flag, headed: "Our Proud Ensign Dishonored, And In Mourning." Additionally all columns on all 4 pages have wide, back mourning rules.
And great to have this report in a newspaper from the nation's capital.
Four pages, various tape mends at the fold, near margins, most older mends yet a few recent archival mends.
AI notes: The 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden was one of the most controversial in American history, culminating in a disputed result that exposed deep sectional tensions. Tilden won the popular vote and initially had 184 electoral votes, just one short of the majority, while Hayes had 165. The remaining 20 electoral votes from Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Oregon were contested due to allegations of fraud and voter intimidation, particularly in the Reconstruction-era South, where Republican-controlled election boards overturned Democratic victories. To resolve the crisis, Congress established a bipartisan Electoral Commission, which, in a strict party-line decision, awarded all disputed votes to Hayes, giving him a one-vote electoral margin and the presidency. This resolution, known as the Compromise of 1877, involved Democrats acquiescing to Hayes’s election in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction and enabling the rise of Jim Crow laws. Despite becoming president, Hayes’s legitimacy was widely questioned, earning him the derisive nickname “Rutherfraud,” and the election marked the only time in U.S. history that a candidate won the presidency without winning the popular vote, leaving a lasting impact on American politics and racial policies.
Category: Post-Civil War
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