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“Any Thing to Beat Grant! The Results of the Fifth Avenue Convention”

Topic:
The Democratic National Convention
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
July 6, 1872, p. 536
 
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Senator Carl Schurz, chairman of the Liberal Republican Convention, had been deeply dismayed when delegates turned from his candidate, diplomat Charles Francis Adams, to embrace Horace Greeley.  Schurz was not on good personal terms with Greeley, he opposed the nominee’s support of trade protectionism and temperance, and he was disheartened that the Liberal Republican movement’s high moral tone had been undermined by the backroom deal-making that resulted in Greeley’s nomination.  Schurz was further chagrined by the selection of Gratz Brown, his Missouri political rival, as the vice-presidential nominee. 

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