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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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