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“The Wreck of the Metis…”

Topic:
Greeley's Campaign Falters
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
September 21, 1872, p. 736
 
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Tidal Wave:  We Are on the Home Stretch!”  (dated October 26; published October 16), the first major epitaph on the Greeley candidacy, was in the hands of readers eight days after Republican victories in pivotal state elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana on October 8.  It depicts a portent of impending popular will as a raw force of nature that dooms the campaign flotilla of Horace Greeley and company.  On October 9, The New York Times, a strong backer of Grant, declared the 1872 presidential race over in an exultant report introduced by a towering stack of 17 headlines beginning with “EXIT GREELEY.”  Much of the mainstream press agreed with that verdict.

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